Awesome. Nice work.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Isak Griffiths <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:isak@ucimc.org">isak@ucimc.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Austin and I successfully created the group and upluaded about 1600<br>
contacts this afternoon :-). Thank you both. Isak<br>
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On 1/19/11, Chris Ritzo <<a href="mailto:chris.ritzo@gmail.com">chris.ritzo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I'd like to offer assistance if you need it with group creation and<br>
> importing. CiviCRM has some excellent documentation online as well.<br>
> <a href="http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC33/CiviCRM+Documentation" target="_blank">http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC33/CiviCRM+Documentation</a><br>
><br>
> Also would like to suggest that the group be created in CiviCRM prior to<br>
> importing so that they can be designated separately from members at the time<br>
> of import. These are individuals who signed on for event related promotional<br>
> emails, maybe for an appeal or two.<br>
><br>
> -Chris<br>
><br>
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Austin McCann<br>
> <<a href="mailto:austinmccann@ucimc.org">austinmccann@ucimc.org</a>>wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Isak:<br>
>> I haven't uploaded contacts yet into CiviCRM, but when I am creating a new<br>
>> contact, I can click "Check for Matching Contacts," which it does. It<br>
>> would<br>
>> be awesome if it gave you that option. Maybe we should try and upload<br>
>> those<br>
>> contacts together and see what happens?<br>
>><br>
>> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Isak Griffiths <<a href="mailto:isak@ucimc.org">isak@ucimc.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> Austin,<br>
>>><br>
>>> I really think your email worked.<br>
>>><br>
>>> I think people got your email and registered it in their brains as "happy<br>
>>> holidays from the IMC," deleted it, forgot it, or it went to spam. Even<br>
>>> those of us who received it didn't realize at first that the<br>
>>> holiday-timed<br>
>>> message and the appeal email in your recent request were one and the<br>
>>> same.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Are you saying that I have to figure out on my own which addresses are<br>
>>> already *IN* CiviCRM? (I can merge my two lists, and I'm sure I can<br>
>>> figure<br>
>>> out how to create a group in CiviCRM.)<br>
>>><br>
>>> Isak<br>
>>> _______________________<br>
>>><br>
>>> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Austin McCann<br>
>>> <<a href="mailto:austinmccann@ucimc.org">austinmccann@ucimc.org</a>>wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>>> Hi Isak:<br>
>>>> Our next step is a little unclear. We need to ensure that CiviMail works<br>
>>>> (which, according to the weird contingencies of my appeal, I'm not fully<br>
>>>> convinced of), then we need to get your Events list made into a group in<br>
>>>> CiviCRM.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> We need to upload those contacts into CiviCRM (you'll have to save your<br>
>>>> spreadsheet as a .csv), check for matching contacts (we don't want to<br>
>>>> double/triple contacts), then add all of those folks to the Events<br>
>>>> group.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Isak Griffiths <<a href="mailto:isak@ucimc.org">isak@ucimc.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>>> Austin,<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> I'm able to pull a list of non-unsubscribed contacts from Vertical<br>
>>>>> response. But I don't see an obvious place to put them in CiviCRM.<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> Is it your vision to have me create a Shows List group that merges the<br>
>>>>> Vertical Response and the imc-events lists?<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> Isak<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> --<br>
>>>> Austin McCann, Development Adviser<br>
</div></div>>>>> Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center <<a href="http://www.ucimc.org" target="_blank">http://www.ucimc.org</a>><br>
<div class="im">>>>> austinmccann[at]ucimc[dot]org<br>
>>>> 202 S. Broadway Ave. #100<br>
>>>> Urbana, IL 61801<br>
>>>> (217) 344-8820<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> *Member of the Digital Arts Service<br>
</div>>>>> Corps*<<a href="http://www.digitalartscorps.org/" target="_blank">http://www.digitalartscorps.org/</a>><br>
>>>><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> --<br>
>> Austin McCann, Development Adviser<br>
>> Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center <<a href="http://www.ucimc.org" target="_blank">http://www.ucimc.org</a>><br>
<div class="im">>> austinmccann[at]ucimc[dot]org<br>
>> 202 S. Broadway Ave. #100<br>
>> Urbana, IL 61801<br>
>> (217) 344-8820<br>
>><br>
>> *Member of the Digital Arts Service<br>
</div>>> Corps*<<a href="http://www.digitalartscorps.org/" target="_blank">http://www.digitalartscorps.org/</a>><br>
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