November 2011 Newsletter
A Message from Our President
In an effort to create the best online volunteer management system available, we keep track of all user suggestions whether they be large or small. While we are not able to implement all of them, we do our very best to implement as many as we can. We are very happy to announce the two new features described below involving email updates that were perhaps our most frequent requests. Please keep those suggestions coming and we thank you for choosing our ever-evolving YourVolunteers system.
Sincerely,
John Wagoner
President
New Feature: Administrators Can Now Opt-in to Receive Daily Summary Emails
These emails will let you as the administrator know about the activity on your organization’s account that day. While we still recommend that administrators log in each day to view the activity for their organization, we hope that these emails will prove to be helpful. The new feature is available on both the Free and Deluxe accounts.
New Feature: Volunteers Can Now Opt-in to Receive The Week Ahead Emails
Volunteers using both the Ongoing Needs and Special Events versions can now choose to receive The Week Ahead emails that will allow them to see their upcoming shifts. Please note that while we have placed a notice on the dashboard page of the volunteer interface, volunteers do not receive this newsletter so they will need to be made aware of the new feature if they do not routinely login to the site. Because of differing laws in the countries where we have organizations using our service, we are unable to allow administrators to choose this option for the volunteer; therefore volunteers must come to the site and opt-in themselves. Like the Administrator emails, The Week Ahead Emails are also available in both the Free and Deluxe versions of the YourVolunteers system.
New Feature: Assignments Can Now Be Cloned along with Shifts (Ongoing Needs Version)
We are grateful to our user who provided us with this suggestion. When you clone shifts across multiple days, you now have the option to also clone the assignments as well.
Fixed: Compatibility with Internet Explorer 8
As many of us who develop for the web know, Internet Explorer 8 works differently than other browsers. We were made aware of an issue on some of the pages of the administrative interface where information was not properly loading and we moved quickly to completely redesign both the administrative and volunteer interfaces to remedy the incompatibility. When we test for Internet Explorer, we use version 9 and use a built-in feature that allows it to pretend to be previous versions, but unfortunately the issue did not appear until we tested the site using the actual previous version. We apologize for the problems if you came across them and we are grateful to our user who pointed out the issue.
New Resource: Advanced Development Executives
Advanced Development Executives is well experienced in donor relations, fundraising, marketing, training, and hosts exceptional workshops relevant to nonprofit organizations. On November 15, the company will be hosting, “Solicitation Strategies: Making the Ask in a Challenging Economy” in Henderson, Nevada and also provides customized training to individuals or groups. More information about Advanced Development Executives is available on their website. Besides these direct services that they provide to nonprofit organizations, they also publish Nevada Nonprofit News.
