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Salsa Weekly Highlight: Add event autoresponses on the go

(From this week's Weekly Highlight email. Click here to sign up to receive it in your inbox every Wednesday!)

You can always get news, updates, and conversation on Salsa Commons. If you were there this week, you saw one of our users, Charlie Albanetti, flat-out scoop the weekly highlight with this post noticing how it's now possible to build events Triggers/Autoresponses in-line directly in the events setup workflow.

The "Add a new response" button instantly creates a brand-new event autoresponse. You can proceed to edit it directly without leaving the tab.

Full instructions and screenshots on using this great new feature are available in the events documentation.

Got your standard replies all set up? They're all there, too. Add an existing response lets you browse among Autoresponses you have already configured, just like always.

Hopefully that will speed up the process of building event autoresponses. Go ahead and chime in on the thread if you have some ideas for making it even better! And look for this same functionality elsewhere in the Salsa toolset in the near future.

 

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12:00 AM Nov 12, 2009 - 1 comments permalink

Salsa headquarters updates in progress

Over the coming days, you'll probably notice some stylistic changes in your Salsa account.

Perhaps the first thing to catch your eye might be the white logo in the upper corner.

Highlighted and now to be placed in the very upper right are the three admin links that the outgoing interface had formerly positioned in the white dashboard space below.

The links do the same thing they've always done, but the tightened interface is 40 pixels shorter and should help economize your browser space.

Some organizations have the new "white album" Salsa deployed already; for others, it'll roll out over the next several days. In either case, there's nothing to worry about: it's the same great Salsa toolset.

Let us know if you have any questions about the new interface!

 

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05:09 PM Nov 04, 2009 - 6 comments permalink

Salsa Weekly Highlight: New 'Actions' package is ready!

(From this week's Weekly Highlight email. Click here to sign up to receive it in your inbox every Wednesday!)

The new Salsa Actions package is ready!

We're highly recommending you install it now. (Note: you must be a Super Admin to install packages. Ask your organization's Super Admin to make this change if you can't see the "account" tab on the right side of Salsa.)

The Actions installation will be seen by all campaign managers using your account and will be effective upon logging out and logging back in.

Actions are the newest advocacy framework to improve and replace the existing Campaign and Petition tools. They'll enhance your online advocacy with:

  • Thank-and-spank with multiple message entries per action
  • Better and faster reports
  • Better webform parsing for multistage and authenticated Congressional webforms
  • Targeting improvements

All Salsa accounts will automatically be upgraded with this package on Jan. 1, 2010 - but you can get a head start by using it today! Rest assured: all of your existing campaign data and reports will continue to be available after Jan. 1 (and forever), and the legacy campaign API will continue to function until March 1, 2010.

Questions? Join a webinar for Actions 2.0 on Nov. 20, or contact support@wiredforchange.com or support@democracyinaction.org.

 

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12:00 AM Nov 04, 2009 - 181 comments permalink

DLCC's Michael Sargeant credits DLCCweb

The smart politics blog FiveThirtyEight has up an election-day interview with Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee executive director Michael Sargent.

As the conversation turns to technology, Sargeant calls out DLCCWeb, the innovative "website in a box" service for state legislative candidates built in Salsa just for the DLCC by Wired for Change.

538: Are you tinkering with any new technological tools or tactics in the field campaign and for voter contacting generally, and if so what?

Sargeant: It's an interesting question. We've all been taking a look from the last election on at a variety of things regarding microtargeting, and making sure we're also doing more polling and just being more aggressive as well at the doors doing GOTV.

One of the things we're very proud of is our DLCCweb program, which we're making available on our website for legislative candidates around the country using this. We have around 350 to 400 candidates around the country using this and they were in full force last election cycle in 2008.

538: So you are using it beyond these races in 2010 and beyond?

Sargeant: We first used it in the '08 races, again this year, and the program is just growing by leaps and bounds.

Pretty sweet. As the 2010 election cycle heats up in the month ahead, hundreds or thousands of Democratic legislative candidates will be rolling out professional campaign sites (not stuff like this) integrating online fundraising, unlimited blast e-mailing, events management, and an online database to track campaigns' supporters, volunteers, and donors, all for a couple bucks a day.

Be the first in your district to have it.

 

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07:45 PM Nov 03, 2009 - 794 comments permalink

November? Time to Salsify.

The first day of November is actually 11 Brumaire by the French Revolutionary calendar, and you'll find that that calendar's convention of pairing days with animals, vegetables and minerals makes 11 Brumaire the day of Salsify, also known as "goatsbeard". (Clearly, we need a Goatsbeard installation of Salsa.)

Robespierre says Salsification cuts any online communication problem down to size.

Much like our organizing and communications platform, the plant Salsify is versatile and delicious.

All parts of the plant are edible. The greens are sweet, the root is tasty and easy to cook, and as if that weren't enough, salsify’s purple flowers are nice to look at.

What better time than the end-of-year fundraising press to Salsify yourself, with web tools that are just as tasty and easy to cook?

Don't wait around for 18 Brumaire ... Salsify today and savor a web presence with integrated email, fundraising and list-building and the best customization in the business.

 

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07:31 PM Nov 01, 2009 - 0 comments permalink

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