MarketingSherpa is now receiving nomination for the Email Marketing Awards 2006. The MarketingSherpa’s Email Awards 2006 will have separate gold and silver cups given in each category for best business-to-business versus best business-to-consumers.
The 12 email awards entry categories include:

Best opt-in campaign
Best email newsletter for marketing purposes
Best sales alert or dedicated offer broadcast
Best advertising campaign in […]

A group of nonprofit organizations and small businesses will announce the formation of a coalition aimed at putting a stop to plans by America Online Inc. and Yahoo Inc. to charge fees to mass e-mailers, writes Robert McMillan for Computer World.
The coalition, sponsored by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), wants the twho Internet giants to abandon […]

Despite the ongoing efforts from many organizations to challenge laws related to do-not-email registries, State registries to “protect” children continue to establish.
According to Media Post, do-not-email child protection registries advanced this month in three states, bringing to five the total number of states now considering such legislation — Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, and Iowa. Michigan […]

Gmail is now offering a webmail service to every user at their own domain. The service is available as a limited beta. You can register for a beta testing. The features include storage and search tools just like the usual Gmail account and a control panel, of which admin can easily manage user accounts, aliases […]

Following the announcement in the press release, which stated that AOL is going to discontinue its enhanced white list, AOL had chanced its position by the end of the day without making an official statement about the change. AOL decided not to discontinue either the standard or enhanced white list but to tighten the thresholds.
Currently […]