I'd like to offer assistance if you need it with group creation and importing. CiviCRM has some excellent documentation online as well. <a href="http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC33/CiviCRM+Documentation">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 importing so that they can be designated separately from members at the time of import. These are individuals who signed on for event related promotional emails, maybe for an appeal or two. <br>
<br>-Chris<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Austin McCann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:austinmccann@ucimc.org">austinmccann@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;">
Isak:<br>I haven't uploaded contacts yet into CiviCRM, but when I am creating a new contact, I can click "Check for Matching Contacts," which it does. It would be awesome if it gave you that option. Maybe we should try and upload those contacts together and see what happens?<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Isak Griffiths <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:isak@ucimc.org" target="_blank">isak@ucimc.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Austin,<div><br></div><div>I really think your email worked. </div><div><br></div><div>I think people got your email and registered it in their brains as "happy holidays from the IMC," deleted it, forgot it, or it went to spam. Even those of us who received it didn't realize at first that the holiday-timed message and the appeal email in your recent request were one and the same.<div>
<br></div><div>Are you saying that I have to figure out on my own which addresses are already *IN* CiviCRM? (I can merge my two lists, and I'm sure I can figure out how to create a group in CiviCRM.)</div><div><br></div>
<div>Isak<br>_______________________<div><div></div><div class="h5"><div><div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Austin McCann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:austinmccann@ucimc.org" target="_blank">austinmccann@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;">Hi Isak:<br>Our next step is a little unclear. We need to ensure that CiviMail works (which, according to the weird contingencies of my appeal, I'm not fully convinced of), then we need to get your Events list made into a group in CiviCRM.<br>
<br>We need to upload those contacts into CiviCRM (you'll have to save your spreadsheet as a .csv), check for matching contacts (we don't want to double/triple contacts), then add all of those folks to the Events group. <br>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Isak Griffiths <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:isak@ucimc.org" target="_blank">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, <div><br></div><div>I'm able to pull a list of non-unsubscribed contacts from Vertical response. But I don't see an obvious place to put them in CiviCRM.</div><div><br></div><div>Is it your vision to have me create a Shows List group that merges the Vertical Response and the imc-events lists?</div>
<div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>Isak</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br></div></div>-- <br>Austin McCann, Development Adviser<br><a href="http://www.ucimc.org" target="_blank">Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center</a><br>austinmccann[at]ucimc[dot]org<br>
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</blockquote></div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Austin McCann, Development Adviser<br><a href="http://www.ucimc.org" target="_blank">Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center</a><br>austinmccann[at]ucimc[dot]org<br>
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