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Designing newsletters for Outlook 2007

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Have you played around with Outlook 2007 yet?  There are some great features, but also a few changes that make a big difference in how your email works.

Our Creative Director Tim Newton came up with some helpful tips and tricks for designing a newsletter to play friendly in Outlook 2007.  You can read the entire Help File here with great visuals and explanations, but read on for the short and sweet version:

  1. Design your layout without any background colors or images – but creative with border or backgrounds that blend into the layout! (see the newsletter image to the left as an example)
  2. You can use a tiled background in Outlook 2007, but must put it into the body tag and specify the image path like this:

    <style type="text/css" media="screen">
        body {
            margin: 0px;
            padding: 0px;
            color: #666;
            background: #5a200e url("http://www.creativeleak.com/images/nl1/bg_Tile.gif")  } 
    </style>

  3. Background colors can be used in a table or a div, but only if there’s not another table or div inside of it.
  4. Try adding these elements to your email designs but remember, the key to any good looking design is what the content looks like

Too busy to design an Outlook 2007-friendly newsletter?  Contact us today and let us know what our awesome design team can create for your organization!

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User identities to show Online Social Connections

Did you know that from your Tendenci user profile you can add user identities to identify areas of social networks you are connected to?  Encourage your Tendenci users/members to add their identities to display social networks.  This is a great way to see who is socially connected to sites like Flickr, Youtube, Facebook, Digg etc.

After have you added your user identities, there will be a visual display of icons on your user profile of identities you have added and are connected to.

I am pushing to integrate blog identities here also. Check back soon.

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Read Schipul’s new Search Engine Marketing Blog!

Thesemblog Schipul’s Search Engine Marketing team has just recently launched the brand new ‘The SEM Blog‘ at www.thesemblog.com. 

It’s a great spot for current SEM clients and also for Web site administrators interested in learning handy tips and tricks for succeeding in the search engines.

Expect up-to-date search engine news, useful links and engaging posts on ways to convert online visitors to repeat customers.  You can subscribe to The SEM Blog’s RSS feed here and even talk back to us on the Schipul SEM forum here.

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Learn more about your site traffic with built-in statistics!

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Knowledge is power – especially on the Web where a good understanding of your site’s traffic patterns can mean the difference between growing your business and staying stagnant.

Tendenci’s built-in statistical reporting utilities enable you to learn what content is the most popular on your site, see how your email distribution lists have grown, how many contacts you have received through your site and much, much more.

Check out these great help files for more information on your Web site’s event logs:

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New features added in Tendenci (6/15/07)

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Some new features have been added and updated in your Tendenci software.  Let us know what you think!

      1. Self Registration – User self registration now needs to confirm email address. This will ensure the email addresses users entered are valid when they sign up to your site = increased security for your Web site. Click here for more info.
      2. Rating – You are able to rate an article and view the rating results.
      3. Favorites – You can add even more content to your Favorites – like articles, directories, jobs, events and more.  A great way to keep track of the best of your site!
      4. Top contributors – As an admin, you can search the site top contributors by date time and by modules.
      5. Membership multi renewal – Allows an admin to renew multiple members at the same time. For more visit its help here.
      6. Ballots – an online voting module. It’s a great way for organizations to elect office positions, or vote proposals and issues. For more info on how to start to use the ballot module, visit our help files.
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May 18 Tendenci updates – cool new stuff!

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We made some updates to your Tendenci software today.  As always, give us a ring with any questions:  (281) 497.6567.  Check these out:

  1. Favorites – You can now ‘favorite’ articles on your Web site for easy access to content you like.  Mark your favorite as public or private, giving different access to site members who view your profile. ~ We will be adding favorites to many more modules within Tendenci – so stay tuned!
  2. Improved membership
    search     – If you, as a site administrator, are searching for a member (“Jones”) and are unable to find a membership record, Tendenci now looks at the user’s
    table and displays any records for "Jones" and prompts you to add from the
    user record.  Ask us for a demo – it will help simplify your life!

  3. New Survey description fields
    –  New TopCMID and BottomCMID fields have been added to the Surveys module so
    you can add paragraphs and extra text to surveys.

  4. External registration links on Calendar Events
    –      Offering registration to organization events other than your own?  Your calendar event pricing pages can now be linked to external  registration pages to keep things clean and simple for your members.
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Search your user connections!

Userconnections_searchupdateYour Web site is a powerful People Connector – and is getting cooler everyday!

You already know that you can connect with and keep in touch with your organization members using the User Connection tool.  But now the Tendenci User Connections features are growing in even more exciting new ways!

As of yesterday’s software update, you can now add, edit, delete and search all of your User Connections on your Web site – giving you even more control over your site contacts.

User Connections makes it easy for you to follow great content and learn who is saying what on your Web site.  Want to know when a board member posts a new article?  Interested in events a specific member posts?  No problem with Tendenci – just Connect!

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Interested in Podcasting?

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Did you know that your Tendenci Web site is Podcast friendly?

Read our help files on how to integrate Podcasts quickly and easily in your Tendenci-driven site and check out this useful article on how to produce Podcasts.

If you’re hungry for more information, be sure to tune into www.mytechnologylawyer.com/ to hear Schipul’s very own Aaron Long and Jason McElweenie discuss Podcast revenue sources, production tips and marketing know-how.