Helpful hints for using Tags The Tags feature in Volgistics provides a useful way to temporarily mark multiple volunteer records so you can perform tasks for all of the tagged records at once. Help topic 2137 explains more about what tasks you can perform for tagged records. Here are some helpful things to keep in
Tag: Volunteer Communication
Tip of the Week March 9, 2015
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 2, 2015
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 one volunteer record may have more than one address or phone number you want to
Tip of the Week December 29, 2014
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 September 22, 2014
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
Text Messaging Feature Released
We’re pleased to announce a new text messaging feature. You can send custom texts to volunteers, and volunteers can choose to receive automated messages, such as reminders, as text messages. Volgistics now has texting to enhance your ability to communicate with your volunteers. Many volunteers (young and old alike) prefer to receive updates through texts
Email Delivery with Yahoo or AOL Reply-to Addresses
Changes in Yahoo and AOL’s delivery policies cause email delivery problems. Other ISPs and ESPs may follow. Volgistics takes many precautions to ensure that your email messages are delivered to volunteers and Coordinators as expected. However, we recently became aware that if you use an @aol.com or @yahoo.com address in a reply-to field in your
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