Problems saving image with outer glow as gif

I've created a logo with an outer glow and it looks great as an illustrator file but there are problems when I save it as a gif file. The glow is replaced by a white blob around the logo. Not sure if this has anything to do with it but the image has a transparent background. I'm new to the Adobe suite. Should I be adding the glow in Photoshop or can it be done, and look right, in illustrator?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

GIFs cannot have alpha transparency. So you need to choose the same background color as you use on the HTML page, so that Illustrator can calculate your graphic when saving for web.
PNG can have alpha transparency, but you cannot use the "screen" blend mode in it.

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