Gather · News & newsletters
News posts with scheduling and an RSS feed, announcements emailed to members who asked for them, and email campaigns aimed at exactly the classes, cities or people you choose.
Publishes Friday 09:00
RSS feed
Emailed to opted-in members
How it works
Write it once. AlumDeck tells the members who asked to be told, and nobody else.
News
Three kinds of post, with categories, a cover image, an excerpt and an author. Write in a short, safe toolbar; publish now or pick a date and time. Each post has its own search title and description, and the feed at /news/feed.xml updates itself.
Announcements
Publish a post, an event or an association document and, within a minute, members who opted in to announcements are emailed about it. Birthday greetings go at 08:00, new members are welcomed in a monthly digest, and the committee gets a Monday summary.
Announcement email
New on Riverside Alumni
NewsReunion weekend: 68 coming
EventHomecoming picnic
DocumentAGM minutes 2026
Sent toMembers who opted in
ChangeYour email settings
Email campaigns
Write in Markdown, then choose the audience: a range of class years, cities, engagement bands from "new" to "champion", mentors only or volunteers only. Count it, send yourself a test, and queue it.
Campaign, sent
Diamond Jubilee appeal
Classes1990 to 2010
EngagementWarm, active, champion
Audience412 members
Sending60 a minute
Opened188
WhatsApp lists
Filter members by class years and cities, write the message once, and AlumDeck gives you a list: one "Open chat" link per member, message already filled in, plus a CSV of the numbers. Tap, send, come back, tap the next.
23 usable numbers
Class of 2011
Ana MartinsOpen chat
James OkaforOpen chat
Tom SatoOpen chat
Arun MenonOpen chat
Lucia FerrariOpen chat
All numbersCSV
Not yet
Where an item is planned, the tag names the release on the public roadmap. Where there is no tag, it is not planned.
FAQ
You need somewhere to send from: any SMTP service or your host's sendmail. Enter it in Settings, Mail and press "Send a test email". Until you do, AlumDeck writes emails to a log instead of sending them, so nothing goes to a stranger by mistake.
News posts, yes: give a post a future publish date and it appears then, and the announcement email follows. Email campaigns, not yet: "Queue send" starts now. Scheduled sends are planned for release 1.4.
There is no cap. AlumDeck sends 60 emails a minute per campaign, which is gentle on shared-hosting mail limits: 1,000 members take about 17 minutes.
No. It builds the list and a pre-filled chat link for each member, and you send each one from your own phone. There is no WhatsApp Business account behind it and no per-message fee.
You see how many members opened each campaign (the first open per person is counted). You do not see clicks.
Yes. Three switches on their profile: membership, community and announcements. AlumDeck checks the choice again for every recipient at the moment a campaign sends. Account and security emails always arrive.
Sign in as the administrator, open Email campaigns and count an audience. Nothing is sent from the demo.
Sign-in details on the demo pageResets every night