E-mail lists for Alms users

Howard Lake | 29 June 2000 | News

Users of Visual Alms, the fundraising database system from Westwood Forster, now have three e-mail discussion lists on which to share advice and tips on using the software

Users of Visual Alms, the fundraising database system from Westwood Forster, now have three e-mail discussion lists on which to share advice and tips on using the software.

Visualalms is run on egroups.com and was launched in April 2000. Unfortunately the list’s moderator has failed to reply to UK Fundraising’s requests for further information, including letting us know who he or she is.

Two other discussion lists for Visual Alms users were set up on the university e-mail list system Mailbase in January 2000. Visual-alms is a list for all users of Alms, whether the Visual or original version, and visual-alms-he is a list for users among alumni and development staff in the higher education sector. The former list for all users is the more popular in terms of number of messages posted.

Both lists were set up and are managed by Janice Sorrell at the Development Office of City University, former home of UK Fundraising. None of these three lists are run by the supplier Westwood Forster although they are reported to be planning an e-mail list for those clients who have signed up for the “relationship initiative”.

Find out more about these and other discussion lists for fundraisers at UK Fundraising’s directory of e-mail discussion lists.

About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.