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OpenEMM is a mature open source email marketing solution that incorporates many of the features found in popular proprietary systems. Manage the various email distribution lists for your company and track the results of your mailings. Features of OpenEMM include:

• Import/Export capabilities for working with existing lists and moving data between systems.
• Wizard-driven templates for creating multi-part emails with both text and HTML versions.
• Full tracking of statistics for open rates and click-thru rates.
• The ability to do custom list segmentation based on various criteria.
• Customizable opt-in and (un)subscribe forms.

The video below gives a brief introduction to the application and shows how to send your first emailing. Watch the video and then try it out yourself using the orange button below.

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DSpace is a document management system designed to facilitate better preservation and sharing of academic research. Each university runs a copy of the software and registers for a unique “handle.” This allows for a federated repository system in which every piece of content added to any system will have a universally-unique identifier. The notable qualities of DSpace include:

• Built from the ground up intended for Universities with the goal of improving preservation and sharing of academic research.
• Support for all forms of digital content (text docs, pdf’s, images, video, graphics) with full-text indexing and searching of text-based content.
• Extensive academic-specific meta-data and globally-unique identifiers on every piece of content.
• Security contexts with groups, users and permissions to enable or restrict access to content as needed

The video below is a quick primer on how to submit your first article into the system. Watch the video and then try it out yourself using the orange button below.

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Foswiki is a wiki system that is notable for its approachability for non-technical users and its ability to store content in a structured fashion. The following qualities make it unique from the other JumpBox wikis:

• A simple WYSIWYG editor means there’s no need to learn special markup syntax.
• Email addresses can be added to a wiki page and the users will receive notifications as changes are made.
• Easily attach files to any wiki page and either view them in-line or as a separate attachment.
• Add forms to your wiki pages to accept structured content submissions.

Foswiki is great for any project that requires collaborative note-taking. It offers a more shallow learning curve for the less-technical user given its usage of a mature WYSIWYG content editor. Simply cut & paste content from other sites or reference external pages from within your wiki page. This video walks you through the first usage of Foswiki. In it we’ll add a user account, create our first few pages, attach an image to a page and setup email notifications.

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LimeSurvey is a survey engine that allows you to create and deliver surveys online. The main features and benefits are:

• Rapidly create and distribute surveys to extract valuable insight from employees, customers and potential customers.
• Export survey results in various formats for further analysis in a spreadsheet program such as Excel or Numbers.
• Build in conditional logic to create a custom stream of questions that intelligently adapts as the respondent answers.
• Host the surveys as publicly-available for anyone to respond or lock it down for private submission only with invite codes.

If you’ve been meaning to conduct an online survey to tap the knowledge of a group of people check out the video below for a quick overview of how to get started with Lime Survey. In this video we’ll create a survey from scratch, add three different types of questions, deliver it to a respondent and then browse the results. As a side note this JumpBox lends itself particularly well to deployment on EC2. Bring up an instance for a few days to gather responses and then use the backup/restore mechanism to take it offline for processing the results.

And when you’re finished with the video take LimeSurvey for a spin yourself by clicking the orange button below. Happy surveying!

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