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A Note from April: Summer of Salsa
Dear Salsa Users and Friends,
We're only one week into summer, and already things are sizzling in the Salsa Kitchen. We've got so many exciting announcements and releases that we've taken to calling it the "Summer of Salsa," and we want to give you a preview of what's to come this summer -- and beyond! Get ready for some major advancements as we strive to create the very best, easiest-to-use, feature-rich platform to help you be the savviest, most effective organizers and fundraisers around!
In addition to upgrades on nearly all of our existing packages and features, we're focusing our development efforts between this summer and next around these 6 major themes:
- Community & Social
- Measuring Up: Reports & Stats
- Organize with Ease: Improving the Salsa Experience
- Better Data = Better Organizing
- Donor Management & Power Fundraising
- Organize Everywhere: Salsa Goes Mobile
Get ready for a new SalsaCommons.org!
We're opening our kitchen to you. Not just a seat at the table, but the opportunity to fully participate. Your participation is critical to our success, and that's why we're excited about our upcoming release that is centered all around YOU, our user community. We're taking our community site, ...
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12:11 PM Jun 30, 2011 -
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Google, Sender Name, SPF and You
Today Google introduced a new security feature to help better inform readers of who is sending a given message. The hope is to prevent spoofing, which occurs when one sends an email that appears to come from one source but actually comes from another. This is a common practice used by spammers to trick people into opening, reading and clicking on emails.
This information is usually hidden in the headers of an email (code you don’t normally see but tracks the journey of an email). Gmail has begun to add “via” information to show who is actually sending the email. So even though your blasts might be coming from xyz@yourorg.com, Gmail will show that the messages are being sent by Salsa Labs.
Below are examples of what you used to see and what you now see.
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How do I make this go away?
As a reader, this will go away once Gmail concludes that you want to receive messages from this sender. For example, if you reply to a message or ...
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04:12 PM Jun 29, 2011 -
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Spam: Few want to eat it, let alone read it
Salsa's Brett Schenker talked spam and email deliverability with us at our Third Thursday "All About Email" training last week. Brett's presentation is shared below, and you can check out a longer, video version here.
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12:46 PM Jun 27, 2011 -
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Tips and Tricks for Email Templates (Plus lots of LOLcats)
At last week's Third Thursday "All About Email" training, Salsa's Alli Treman shared some secrets for making your email template rock. Check out her presentation below.
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12:12 PM Jun 27, 2011 -
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Salsa Highlight: Event Waiting List Upgrade Trigger
Greetings!
It's the "Salsa Highlight," your quick hit on what's new 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.
Earlier this month, we flagged a new event option, paid event invoicing.
Well, we keep adding new bells and whistles to Salsa Events. The latest is ...
Waiting List Upgrade Triggers
You can now have your Salsa event launch an auto-response email trigger when someone gets upgraded from the waiting list.
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11:37 AM Jun 24, 2011 -
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