[UCIMC-Tech] CiviCRM and Vertical Response

[Chris Ritzo]

Awesome. Nice work.

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Isak Griffiths <isak at ucimc.org> wrote:

> Austin and I successfully created the group and upluaded about 1600
> contacts this afternoon :-). Thank you both. Isak
>
> On 1/19/11, Chris Ritzo <chris.ritzo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'd like to offer assistance if you need it with group creation and
> > importing. CiviCRM has some excellent documentation online as well.
> >
> http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC33/CiviCRM+Documentation
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > -Chris
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Austin McCann
> > <austinmccann at ucimc.org>wrote:
> >
> >> Isak:
> >> 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?
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Isak Griffiths <isak at ucimc.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Austin,
> >>>
> >>> I really think your email worked.
> >>>
> >>> 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.
> >>>
> >>> 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.)
> >>>
> >>> Isak
> >>> _______________________
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Austin McCann
> >>> <austinmccann at ucimc.org>wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi Isak:
> >>>> 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.
> >>>>
> >>>> 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.
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Isak Griffiths <isak at ucimc.org>
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Austin,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 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.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Is it your vision to have me create a Shows List group that merges
> the
> >>>>> Vertical Response and the imc-events lists?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Isak
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Austin McCann, Development Adviser
> >>>> Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center <http://www.ucimc.org>
> >>>> austinmccann[at]ucimc[dot]org
> >>>> 202 S. Broadway Ave. #100
> >>>> Urbana, IL 61801
> >>>> (217) 344-8820
> >>>>
> >>>> *Member of the Digital Arts Service
> >>>> Corps*<http://www.digitalartscorps.org/>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Austin McCann, Development Adviser
> >> Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center <http://www.ucimc.org>
> >> austinmccann[at]ucimc[dot]org
> >> 202 S. Broadway Ave. #100
> >> Urbana, IL 61801
> >> (217) 344-8820
> >>
> >> *Member of the Digital Arts Service
> >> Corps*<http://www.digitalartscorps.org/>
> >>
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