YWAM Information Technology

I've been asked by several people if I know of a good OpenSource (free) E-Newsletter engine. Well I've been using for myself a self-hacked plugin for wordpress, which I can live with for my personal blog but if I want to implement something bigger, like a ministry newsletter, I would like to have something more robust and user friendly. 

I'm just about to try and develop one, but before I head into this I thought it would be a good idea to ask you guys, because maybe there's something really good out there that everyone uses and I'm still in the dark about it..

"There are things that you don't know that you don't know!"

Below is a quote from the YWAM Bases web-site about what YWAM Bases is and why it was created.

YWAM Bases is an initiative of a group of YWAMers and associates who saw the need to offer YWAM Bases around the world a Free way to display their base information on the Internet. It has grown out of a decade of helping YWAM Bases around the World develop their Web Sites.

We have just made our new Reef to Outback page live. We have developed it on the new YWAM CMS, which you can read about on my previous article, YWAM CMS - Free Base Web-Site & CMS. It's taken us a while to develop it, but it's come out not too bad.

As Chris said in our conversation about blogging, Payment for Typo3, Reef to Outback has been using a custom CMS for a while for our web-site.  Over the last year and a half we have been developing a new CMS to replace our current one, with the goal of releasing it to YWAM when it is completed.  Already a few bases in Australia are using it, as well as the YWAM Australia National Portal.  We at Reef to Outback are just about set to release our new web-site next week based on the new CMS.