It is very rare that you just want email addresses devoid of other context.
I would suggest that using Raisers Edge is an excellent idea--maintaining the email addresses in context with any other information about the subscribers. The overhead of having subscribers about whom you know nothing (or little) beyond email address, or who have little or no connection to your development efforts is minor compared to having one place where email addresses and subscriptions are kept up to date, and where synergies with other organizational data can occur. Exporting a periodic email address report from Raisers Edge would not be nearly as much a bother as trying to integrate data the other way. I am speaking from intent, not from experience, however, so other folks may be able to present better experiential data, for or against. Our organization is in the process of moving to a single system after experiencing the joys of maintaining mailing lists in one system, volunteers in a second, development in a third, etc. ari On 12/29/06, Patrick <trashbin1954 at yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I've been tasked with putting together a plan for collecting, > consolidating and managing email addresses from our patrons. We've > implemented the more obvious collection points- web site, newsletter > subscriptions, membership applications, e-commerce, etc.- but the challenge > now is sorting through all these various email sources located in different > places, matching them to existing email addresses, eliminating duplicates, > cleaning the data, etc. > > We use parts of Raisers Edge to manage membership data but it sounds > like overkill for this. I need to consolidate the various email address > repositories, verify the data, eliminate any duplicates already in our > membership database, and provide a means for editing/updating. Does anyone > have any wisdom to share on this? > > Thanks in advance, and happy new year to all. > > Patrick Clancy > Director of Information Technology > The New York Botanical Garden > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer > Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l >
