Adding tracking to your e-mail communications such as newsletters
If you want to add tracking to your newsletters, you can use Google Analytics for that.
Did you know that you can use free tools from Google to add tracking including open rate?
Here is how:
For tracking links:
http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55578
For tracking open rate:
http://email-tracking-with-google-analytics.com/
Please note that this won’t work if users do not enable images in their email clients.
Beta version of the new tool to report new officers or officer changes released
We are happy to announce that vTools.OfficerReporting, Beta version of the new tool to report new officers or officer changes, has been released. vTools.OfficerReporting is an enhancement of the existing form. It enables authorized geographic organizational unit volunteers to submit officer reporting on-line with automatic validation and update to the central IEEE database.Please note that [...]
Updates to vTools Web Conferencing software
In January of 2011, DimDim was acquired by salesforce.com. As such, MGA is in the process of decommissioning DimDim and introducing a new remote conferencing tool. After evaluating many options for both cost and ease of use, WebEx has been selected. If you are familiar with WebEx, or want to try it out now, send [...]
Video of vTools presentation from Sections Congress 2011
We are excited to announce that a video of vTools presentation from Sections Congress 2011 is now available on IEEE.tv.
Sharing Survey Reports
Sharing Survey Reports can be very useful. It is also very simple, just follow these three steps: 1) Login into the tool; 2) Click on the “Analyze” button fro the survey you want to share; 3) In “Share your reports” section, check “Enable Sharing”, pick a password, and save the changes.
Who can access vTools?
We often get asked question “Who can access vTools?”. We updated our FAQ with the answer, but also wanted to add a blog post as well. The current security model automatically allows use of the tools by any volunteer who appears on the section roster. Volunteers can create meetings, WebInABox sites, run elections, etc., while [...]
Meetings 4.0 and Voting 1.3 have been released
We are happy to announce that vTools.Meetings version 4.0 and vTools.Voting version 1.3 were released today. vTools.Voting 1.3 is a maintenance release. It introduces the following changes: – Look and feel compliant with the latest IEEE web presence guidelines.; – Code compatibilty with Rails version 2.3.5; – New version of the WYSIWYG editor (TinyMCE) used [...]
Accepting credit card payments
Functionality for accepting credit card payments is made possible by a joint effort between IEEE Concentration Banking Program and vTools. It enables Sections, Chapters, and Affinity Groups that are using vTools.Meetings (http://meetings.vtools.ieee.org <http://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/> ) to accept credit card payments for meetings and have funds deposited directly in the sections’ Concentration Banking accounts. Deposits to a [...]
Price level order on the registration screen
If you are using payment functionality in the vTools.Meetings, you know that you can set multiple price levels. For each level you can specify if it should apply to the general public (“Everyone”), IEEE members (“All IEEE members”), or just a subset of IEEE members in a specifc member grade. If you restrict price level [...]
Tip for using Excel to analyze registration data from vTools Meetings
As you might already know, the vTools.Meetings has a flexible registration functionality (see tutorial available here). As part of this functionality, you can download a CSV file containing all of the registrants’ data. The CSV can be opened in Excel, sorted, filtered, and emailed to any address. Unfortunately, Excel suppresses leading zeros for members whose [...]
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