Many railroad museums have postal mailing lists of past constituents and customers. I'm trying to find a database to keep them in. Just one rub: It needs to be online. It can't sit on the museum director's personal laptop, otherwise no one else can maintain it. It's on a Google Doc right now but I'm hoping for something that is a little more designed for this purpose.

What does your organization use?

Our mailing list is maintained on an Access database on the desktop in the treasurer's office at the Museum.

Wesley

We use Vertical Response for our emails, but it can also store physical mailing addresses. The list can be downloaded as a .csv file.

Vertical Response is free if your list isn't big (maybe 1,000 addresses?).

http://www.verticalresponse.com/

Paul Krueger
Seattle, WA

have you looked at what's available through techsoup or recommended by them?

Bob H

Though the 'home base' for our membership is still maintained in Access on one computer (with frequent backups, of course), I use Mailchimp for sending e-mails (free) and Click2Mail to send snail-mail (at non-profit postage rates). Both services let you up- and download CSV files.

A few years ago I experimented with Zoho.com as an online collection of business tools (includes database, CRM, spreadsheet, etc) when it was free but they now charge for these services. Google.com also has a suite of online business apps, but they aren't free either.

You could probably use a program like Dropbox.

If you're techsavvy you can get rid of Dropbox and use Owncloud - it just needs a dedicated linux server to sit on.

We have ours there and also on our ticketing software host - where we can send mass emails through.