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Friday Fiesta: merge fields, pumpkins, and avoiding computers

Happy Friday!

I hope you all had a very lovely Thanksgiving. I could have eaten half a gallon of the cranberry salad (recipe courtesy of my second grade teacher), but unfortunately, I was not the only one in the family with this plan, so instead, I ate half a pumpkin roll filled with cream cheese and sugar. Now I want more...

Have you voted for us yet? Nominated for Most Valuable Tech by one of our users, we'd love your support. 

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In the Twittersphere, our Community Daily is out, and if you're interested...

 

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11:35 AM Dec 03, 2010 - 2 comments permalink

Salsa Service Update (and what's to come)

Late last night, we completed some significant configuration changes to our network which were the culmination of months of efforts in creating a bigger, faster, stronger Salsa. Some of this is pretty technical, but we wanted to be open and transparent about the processes in place to provide the highest quality service to our clients.

After we experienced the major fiber cut-related outage back in May, we mapped out a course of action to help mitigate network-related outages by either provider outage (i.e. fiber cut or other service degradation). This plan itself came in several phases.

Phases 1 and 2 included selecting, provisioning, and configuring a backup connection. That was completed within a few days of the May outage. We wanted to

 

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10:05 AM Dec 03, 2010 - 1 comments permalink

Salsa Weekly Highlight: Personalized Email Triggers

Greetings!

It's the "Salsa Weekly Highlight," your quick hit on what's what in Salsa to help get the most out of your online program. As always, you can find plenty more news, updates, and conversation throughout the week on SalsaCommons.org.

We recently highlighted Salsa's tools for personalizing thank-you pages with the name of your donor or supporter after s/he takes action.

Today, we're going to translate that same trick to the automated Email Triggers your action pages launch.

Personalized Email Triggers

I hope you're already using Email Triggers widely to thank your supporters when they join, give, register, or take action on your Salsa pages.

When someone likes you that much, why settle for "Dear Supporter"? Personalized greetings like "Dear Adam" show the recipient that you care.

Image: Personalized Email Trigger sent to a donor

 

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10:56 AM Dec 02, 2010 - 50 comments permalink

Salsa Weekly Highlight: Personalized Thank-You Pages

Greetings!

It's the "Salsa Weekly Highlight," your quick hit on what's what in Salsa to help get the most out of your online program. As always, you can find plenty more news, updates, and conversation throughout the week on SalsaCommons.org.

We're often asked about how to make acknowledgment messages to supporters as personal as possible. So the focus of this week's highlight is personalized thank-you pages using Salsa's merge fields.

Personalized Thank-You Pages

Thank-You Pages are a special type of Salsa content intended for use as a custom redirect from your other action and donation pages.

You can have these pages deliver personalized messages like "Thanks, Leslie!" in two easy steps.

Image: Personalized Thank-You Page text
 

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04:04 PM Nov 23, 2010 - 100 comments permalink

Friday Fiesta: sharing, 2011 trainings, and snow

Happy Friday!

Thanks for nominating us for Rootscamp's "Most Valuable Tech." Vote here, and check out Adam's post to see other ways you can help us become a finalist.

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November's Third Thursday was all about sharing. Last night, Carie Lewis, Director of Emerging Media at the Humane Society, shared her advice for effective sharing and organizing. If you weren't able to make it...

 

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05:20 PM Nov 19, 2010 - 0 comments permalink

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