National Volunteer Week (U.S. & Canada) National Volunteer Week has arrived! National Volunteer Week was established to inspire people to volunteer to make their communities a better place, to recognize your current volunteers, and to encourage volunteerism in general. This week the U.S. and Canada are celebrating National Volunteer Week from April 23-29, 2017. Australia’s
Tag: Volunteer Communication
Tip of the Week April 10, 2017
Track messages received by volunteers on the History tab Each time a volunteer is a recipient of an email, text, or Vic Mail message from your account, an entry is added to the Messages section of the volunteer’s History tab. This feature tracks custom email and text messages sent by System Operators as well as
Tip of the Week March 13, 2017
View a sent email message to see recipients Volgistics keeps a list of email messages received on the History tab of each volunteer’s record. While this is useful if you know the names of the volunteers who received a message, there are times when you may not remember this information. In these cases, you can
Tip of the Week March 6, 2017
National Volunteer Week Approaching National Volunteer Week is coming up fast and we wanted to make sure you are aware of it. National Volunteer Week was established to inspire people to volunteer to make their communities a better place, to recognize your current volunteers, and to encourage volunteerism in general. The U.S. and Canada will
Tip of the Week February 27, 2017
Receive self-scheduling alerts by email as a System Operator Self-scheduling alerts can be setup on the Schedule ‘Rules’ tab of each Assignment record to send notifications whenever a volunteer adds or removes themselves from that Assignment’s Schedule. These notifications can be sent to system operators via the Volgistics Mailbox and/or to coordinators by email. This
Tip of the Week February 13, 2017
Make sure volunteers at your domain receive your email messages In the past when an email message was sent from your account, messages were always sent from our system on your behalf using your email address as the ‘From’ address. However, with more mail systems introducing more sophisticated email authentication protocols, like SPF and DMARC,
Tip of the Week December 26, 2016
Message history is available on History tab of volunteer record When you use Volgistics’ features to send email, Vic mail, or text messages to volunteers, a record of the messages sent to each volunteer is kept on his or her History tab. You can view this record to see if the message shows as being
Tip of the Week December 5, 2016
Track multiple addresses and phone numbers for volunteers on their Contacts tab Volunteer addresses and phone numbers are stored on the Core tab of the volunteer record. In most cases this is sufficient to track the volunteer’s information. But sometimes a volunteer record may have more than one address or phone number you want to
Tip of the Week September 26, 2016
Link to web sites for volunteer records from within Volgistics Volunteer records in Volgistics have a Web site field on the Core tab. On group records, this field can be used to record the organization’s web site. On individual volunteer records, you can record the volunteer’s personal web page or their page on sites such
Tip of the Week September 19, 2016
Use email codes to personalize email messages. Volgistics has email codes available that allow you to personalize email messages that are sent to volunteers. These allow you to insert specific volunteer information into an email message similar to how the mail merge function works in a word processing program. The codes available allow you to