Beta Testers

Re: EMail merge with BCC

KeefeDaly — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:29:11 GMT

Re: New to TntMPD- Downloading Files

BobCopenhaver — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:11:50 GMT

Re: New to TntMPD- Downloading Files

Al Frank — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:38:17 GMT

Quick way to analyze your end-of-year giving...

TroyWolbrink — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:17:34 GMT

When you do a consistent appeal, like an annual end-of-year ask, it's sometimes helpful to look at historical trends. This might give you an idea of what to expect for this appeal this time around. TntMPD provides an "Appeal Giving Trends" report that is helpful to visualize this. With Excel, you can improve upon it.

Under the "Tools" menu, click on "Appeal Tracking". Then click on "View Giving Trends".

Then arrange your columns in Excel from left to right in order of years:

Turn on Excel's auto-filter option:

Then, from left to right, sort each year from Largest to Smallest:

What you'll end up with is a list of previous givers, with the most recent givers on top:

The closer the contact is to the top, the more likely they are to give this year. As you move down the list, you encounter contacts who haven't given in a while, but might this year.

TntMPD 2.1 r76 (beta) -- Sync with MailChimp

TroyWolbrink — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 21:29:25 GMT

This latest beta adds a new feature to sync TntMPD with MailChimp. To get this beta (on Windows or Mac),
under the "Help" menu, click on "Check for BETA Updates".

Under the "Tools" menu: "Sync with MailChimp". You'll see this:

The first thing you should do is select a MailChimp list you want to sync with. This feature will sync all the contacts in TntMPD who have the "Send Newsletter" box checked, and who haved a valid/preferred email address.

When you click "Select", you are first prompted to enter your MailChimp API Key:

If you're not sure what it is, click on the "What's my Api Key?" link. When you click it, you'll see something like this:

Copy and paste this into TntMPD and click "Next".

Then you must select an existing MailChimp list you want to sync with:

Click "OK", then click "Sync!".

This will now sync your list in TntMPD with all those in the MailChimp list. Any unsubscribes in MailChimp will cause the email in TntMPD to no longer be "Preferred". Any bounces in MailChimp will cause the email in TntMPD to no longer be "Valid". EIther way a history will be logged.

If the email address changed in MailChimp since last time you synced, it will be updated in TntMPD automatically, with a history logged.

If the name changed in MailChimp since last time you synced, a task will be scheduled in TntMPD for you to investigate.

Next, all the contacts in TntMPD with the "Send Newsletter" check box checked will be added to MailChimp (assuming they have a valid/preferred email). Also, it will update the list to reflect TntMPD's current state. It adds some additional fields that can be used to filter the list in MailChimp or to merge. It adds the "Greeting" field, which is nice for merging. It also adds user fields, mpd phase, pledge amount/frequency, and a few others.

Any emails in MailChimp that were originally from TntMPD will be deleted if they are no longer associated with a contact in TntMPD with the "Send Newsletter" box checked.

To better visualize what's going on, consider these circles. The blue circle is all the TntMPD contacts with "Send Newsletter" checked, and with a valid/preferred email. The orange circle is the MailChimp list. The overlap is where the email address is in common. The top half of the MailChimp circle is emails that came from TntMPD from a previous sync session. The red actions are done automatically. The purple action is described next.

Finally, if ther are any emails in the MailChimp list that are exclusive to MailChimp, these are displayed now:

You can check the box for the items you wan to import. This can either bring in a new contact, add an email address to an existing contact, or it can check the "Send Newsletter" box for a contact that matches the email address. A history is logged for any import, so you can always check the History view to lookup the contacts just imported and make sure they look right.

Click "Next" and you're done!

Here's what this last screen looks like on a Mac:

Re: Link to Microsoft Access - Profile concept

TroyWolbrink — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:47:33 GMT

Re: 2.1.74 Mac Beta Successful on Lion 10.7.2

TroyWolbrink — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:44:50 GMT

Link to Microsoft Access - Profile concept

herbieltd — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 23:21:38 GMT

2.1.74 Mac Beta Successful on Lion 10.7.2

PeterAxup2701 — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:26:44 GMT

Mac testers needed for TntMPD 2.1 r72!

TroyWolbrink — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:07:42 GMT

I've been working on a new TntMPD for Mac. It no longer needs X11 or XQuartz to run. Also, when it runs, you see "TntMPD" as the application name on the menu bar (instead of X11 or XQuartz). When you close TntMPD, it doesn't leave behind X11/XQuartz. And if you Command-Q to quit TntMPD, you are given a warning about losing any unsaved changes with the option to cancel. I believe this is a very good step forward!

I released it to beta yesterday, and about 9 people downloaded it. From the best I can tell, 5 received an error, and 4 did not. All 5 who received an error had the same error. It was "OLE error 80004005" and it was reported as soon as TntMPD tried to connect to a database. Here's a forum post from one such user. I have since removed it from being advertised in the "Downloads" section. But it's still available from here (TntMPD.2.1.72.dmg).

I received the same error when I was testing. For me it worked to just delete TntMPD from the "Applications" folder and to then copy it back in from the installer (TntMPD.2.1.72.dmg). I may have restarted also.

The problem is I can no longer reproduce this issue in my testing. I though it was a fluke, but the evidence from these 9 users shows it's clearly not. So I'm a little stuck. If someone can help me figure out how to reproduce this issue, you'd really help TntMPD for Mac move forward. And if you get stuck, you can always reinstall TntMPD for Mac 2.1 r56.

Thanks,
Troy

Re: How I installed TntMPD on Ubuntu

guitarmanvt — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 00:22:02 GMT

Re: How I installed TntMPD on Ubuntu

StephenSteiner — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 23:27:13 GMT

TntMPD 2.1 r71 (release candidate)

TroyWolbrink — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:57:23 GMT

TntMPD 2.1 r71 has been released to beta. It includes a German translation update, as well as an update to the English help manual. It also has a few fixes.

I'm going to release this out of beta soon unless a major bug is found. Please test it out!

Thanks,
Troy

Re: TntMPD on Linux

TroyWolbrink — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:55:14 GMT

Re: How I installed TntMPD on Ubuntu

TroyWolbrink — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:53:33 GMT

Re: How I installed TntMPD on Ubuntu

StephenSteiner — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:31:07 GMT

Re: TntMPD on Linux

NachoMarques — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:40:27 GMT

Re: TntMPD on Linux

TroyWolbrink — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:56:31 GMT

Re: TntMPD on Linux

NachoMarques — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 06:45:48 GMT

Re: TntMPD on Linux

NachoMarques — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 15:36:50 GMT