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Shiny New Stock Email Templates

Would you like to create a new email template, but don't have a web designer on hand to throw one together? Anyone can create a professional looking email template with one of our six shiny new stock templates!

We designed our new stock templates using email template design best practices. They are all formatted to work smoothly with Salsa's WYSIWYG. We tested each template with Litmus to make sure they all look beautiful in over 25 of your supporters' favorite email clients. Worried about Spam? All the sample templates have a stellar Spam rating of 0.

Using the new stock templates is easy! Follow our step-by-step instructions, which explain how to use the stock templates and change them to match your organization's branding.

Did you create something awesome with one of our stock templates? We would love to see it! Please post in SalsaCommons to share your work!

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12:24 PM Feb 24, 2011 - 0 comments permalink

It's our job to care

I've always been pretty thankful to work with Salsa Labs, but never more so than this past week when I asked, "So… do you think it's okay if I take a couple hours to go to a local rally?" and Awesome Dave (that may or may not be his official title) responded, "Goodness, yes. Go."

As I listen to all the arguments against the rights of workers and unions here in Wisconsin, I notice a consistent theme: Me. From "Unions don't work for me," to "I've never had a union," to "I don't get those benefits, they should just stop whining," the majority of the arguments against workers' rights are made with our personal, immediate, individual benefits and situations in mind.

At Salsa, it is our job to care about more than just ourselves. From the work we do, the people and organizations we work with, and the state of our world, we are expected to support progressive causes and encouraged to take time to volunteer and be actively engaged with society.

Beyond this, I believe it is our job as citizens to care about and protect the ...

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02:57 PM Feb 23, 2011 - 2 comments permalink

Friday Fiesta: new release, sharing, and unsubscribes

Happy Friday!

Two important things to point out before I start babbling too much: Our office will be closed on Monday, February 21, and if you currently style your donation page headers or footers, please check out this post about some changes to div tags.

Commons Comments

Not able to attend yesterday's Third Thursday? You can check it out here.

I get so giddy about releases, and Chris T's post with highlights made this last week's release even more fun.

Scott added this spiffy post about adding Twitter feeds to your site.

Chris V. updated Sharing documentation this week, too.

Speaking of Social Media, join us for a tweetchat next week. Talking to you makes me like Twitter more.

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01:14 PM Feb 18, 2011 - 0 comments permalink

How To Add a Custom Twitter Feed

Ever curious about adding a Twitter feed on to your site? Well, look no further!

When you add this in, make sure to fill in an image link at the top and put in your Twitter handle at the bottom. To see a great example of this in practice, check out the Virginia House Democratic Caucus's Salsa site, here: http://www.vahousedems.com/

Below is the code for adding the feed (or multiple feeds for that matter):

<p></p>
<p></p>
<p><script src="PUT IN IMAGE LINK HERE"></script> <script>
new TWTR.Widget({
  version: 2,
  type: 'profile',
  rpp: 4,
  interval: 6000,
  width: 250,
  height: 300,
  theme: {
   shell: {
   background: '#0e1370',
   color: '#ffffff'
   },
   tweets: {
   background: '#a1a1a1',
   color: '#000000',
   links: '#0a59f7'
   }
  },
  features: {
   scrollbar: true,
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11:23 AM Feb 18, 2011 - 0 comments permalink

Salsa 1.8.2: Share Everywhere

Today we released Salsa 1.8.2, a full-featured upgrade that includes new ways to report data, more intelligent event location names, and a host of sharing upgrades that let you share your pages everywhere. Read the details of 33 bug fixes and features here, as well as highlights after the jump.

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03:29 PM Feb 16, 2011 - 0 comments permalink

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