Broadcast a message needs a facelift

My problem with the broadcast message is that the "Reply to" goes nowhere. Many people accidently reply to the message and it is lost in cyberspace and the person thinks I am ignoring them.

Why now allow a reply to option if wanted?

Full HTML could allow us to send out newsletters to everyone.

Right now I say at the top of the message:

"DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE - IT WILL GO NOWHERE
Reply to .... (my email)

But that is a pain because people are so used to hitting the REPLY button. But thanks anyway.

Having HTML would also be cool.

I don't like the idea of adding a picture of the admin to the message, but I would certainly welcome limited HTML which would not pose a security risk or even the BBcode used in other areas of NING that could be translated to HTML for export to email.

Excellent Athena, I agree with everyone here that the broadcast message is limited and now that the networks have numerous activities, video, events, activity, photos, music and so on we need to message quite an amount of information to members.
Please add the option of sending using html, the system already supports anti spam, the emails only go to members, so I can't see why this shouldn't be something Ning could really jump ahead of other social network platforms with :)

And since 'Broadcast' message is probably used by some networks as a newsletter, regardless of whether that was the intention or not, we need the ability to exclude a member from the broadcast if requested. Agreed all?

Or, at the very least, allow us to only export certain members to email so that we don't have to export the whole list each time we get ready to broadcast.

U think for broadcasting messages, they need to allow us to send it in the same way as notofications for shared blogs, videos and forumentries.

This way it would look much more appealing..

What you cOULD do though, is write a blog, pimp it up anyway you like it, with links and pictures... and send a broadcastmessage wich links to the particular blogentry.

This is a nice and creative way of sharing your stuff in a nice manner and illustrate things in blogs!

Another cool thing about this is that you can discuss the novelties that are going on on your network :)))

I have also another idea...Why don't NING add a link to blogs, in the same way as the 'share' link, that's named: 'Send this blog as a mailing to your members?'. So members will receive this blog as an html email right into their mailboxes. This would be so great i think?

Until ning allows us to have HTML messages, this is the only way to do so!

Zohra

Can we get a text editor? Scratch that, can you make it recognize spaces and other editing? I'm tired of my messages arriving all squished together if I forget to ad break tags.

Spell check would save me the hassle of copying and pasting on word. Sounds like it would be so simple to add a spell check on the broadcast email. My network is getting large and the more spelling erros that slip thru the worse I look...Thanks