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On Thursday, Feb. 21 at 2:55 p.m., The American Legion launched its first electronic newsletter: ALOU, the American Legion Online Update. By 5:20 p.m., more than 90,000 people on the web had received the e-newsletter’s first issue.
The Update is published weekly and emailed to subscribers each Thursday. It makes a strong complement to the Legion’s two monthly publications, the Dispatch and American Legion Magazine. News coverage in the first issue ranged from the Berkeley City Council’s dispute with Marine Corps recruiters, to explaining differences between CRSC (combat-related special compensation) and CRDP (concurrent receipt disability pay).
Twelve hours after ALOU went out on the Internet, 93 percent of the 98,786 recipients had received it successfully. Statistics generated from the first mailing show that 21 percent of the recipients use America Online as their email domain; 16 percent use Yahoo, 6 percent use Hotmail, and nearly half use other domains.
If you’d like to subscribe to the weekly American Legion Online Update, please visit the Legion’s website at www.legion.org. Click on “Publications,” then click “Online Update” in the drop-down menu.
Comments (1)
Is this the same as Legion Current Events emails?
Posted by Jason R. Denny | 02/27/08 12:27 PM |