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Installing the VPN Client (with Trend Micro)

Jan 18, 2019 | Written by

This short guide will show you how to install UGA’s Cisco VPN client on a computer which has Trend Micro installed. Trend Micro is your computer’s antivirus and actively monitors your computer in order to keep it protected. This function perceives the VPN client as malicious when you attempt to…
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Creating an Email Newsletter using Mailchimp

Jul 5, 2018 | Written by

Use this guide to learn the basic steps of creating an email newsletter through an email newsletter service. We recommend using MailChimp to manage, produce and send email newsletters. If you use a different service, general information and advice about creating email newsletters will still be relevant to you.
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Email Newsletters: Subscription lists

Jul 5, 2018 | Written by

Create your subscription list Build your subscriber base Build and maintain relationships with subscribers Working with LISTSERVs Setting up a sign-up form Permission-based An email newsletter service is a permission-based tool for mass emailing. This means that you must have permission for every single address that you enter or import into…
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Email Newsletters: Problem with Sending Bulk Email

Jul 5, 2018 | Written by

This is how email typically works: you send an email message from your email client. The message goes through your email server which contacts the recipient’s email server. The receiving email server then delivers the message to the recipient’s inbox. With a newsletter, you are most likely distributing the newsletter…
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Blog Subscribers and Email Updates

Jul 4, 2018 | Written by

Do you want to send email updates to your subscribed readers when you post new blog content? The service that we’ve chosen for this is MailChimp, an online email service provider that can help manage the subscribers to your WordPress site and also send scheduled updates when you publish new…
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WordPress: Working with Images and Video

Jul 4, 2018 | Written by

Video and images can be added to your posts and pages in a number of ways. Most of the resources that you add to a post or page will need to be uploaded to your WordPress media folder. Add images to a page/post Reviewing existing media Embedding videos Add images…
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