PastPerfect Newsletter August/September 2009
1. What's New - PastPerfect Tweets! 1. What's New - PastPerfect Tweets! Do you want to learn the latest PastPerfect news? PastPerfect Software, Inc. is now using Twitter as a fast and easy-to-use communication tool. All you need to do is sign up for a free account and follow PastPerfectInfo. As a follower, you will get timely news, helpful tips and special offers first. We limit tweets to once or twice a week, and they are a maximum of 140 characters. To follow PastPerfectInfo, please go to www.twitter.com/PastPerfectInfo and click the "Join Today!" button. Once you complete the initial log-in information and email notification forms, you will see on the right that you are currently following PastPerfectInfo. Select other users from the list whom you might want to follow and click the "Finish" button. As a Twitter user, you can post your own tweets to give your friends, family and other followers your latest news and answer the question, "What are you doing?" 2. Website Resources - Client List The Client List at our website is a great resource to find PastPerfect users by state. If your organization is missing or if there is a misspelling, please let us know. We will be happy to add your organization, a link to your organization's website, and a link to your PastPerfect-Online or Virtual Exhibit sites. Please complete our online form www.museumsoftware.com/clientlistform.php or send an email to clientlist@museumsoftware.com. Please include your name, organization's name, address, telephone number, email address, and website address(es). Check out your listing at www.museumsoftware.com/clientlist.shtml 3. Training Opportunities - Training CDs, your 24/7 Teacher Have you ever wanted to bring a PastPerfect trainer into the comfort of your living room or send a new, enthusiastic volunteer home with the tools to hit the ground running? PastPerfect Training CDs are the answer. PastPerfect sells training CDs as a set or individually to meet your project's needs. The PastPerfect 4.0 CD Training Series comes with all three training CDs, a User's Guide and free shipping. It costs just $119.00. Individual CDs are only $39.00 each, which includes shipping. TRAINING CD: Cataloging Your Collection with PastPerfect 4.0 TRAINING CD: Managing Contacts, Donations, and Membership with PastPerfect 4.0 TRAINING CD: Researching and Reporting with PastPerfect 4.0 Training CDs may be purchased at our online store http://www.museumsoftwaresolutions.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv or by calling us toll free 1-800-562-6080.
4. We'll see you at the conference! We hope to see you at the American Association for State and Local History's 2009 Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana. Please stop by our booth (#7) on Thursday, August 27th and Friday, August 28. We'd love to visit! Take a look in your conference tote bag for your chance to win a new Compaq Presario Notebook with 3 GB of RAM, a DVD-R/RW drive, and 15.6” high definition widescreen display. You could be the winner and take home a brand new computer. We ask that all entries are delivered to our booth by 2pm on Friday. On Saturday, August 29th, please join us for the panel session, "Building a Worldwide Audience for Your Collection." Karen Vincent of Minnetrista and Erica Kendall and Lee Ehman of Monroe County Historical Society will share their experiences in creating PastPerfect-Online sites. PastPerfect staff members, Brian Gomez and Jennifer Whitfield, will provide the how-to and technical information. 5. Featured Report - Donations, Dues and In-kind Gifts Summary The Donations, Dues and In-kind Gifts Summary report is a useful tool to get a total of the monetary and in-kind contributions by each contact. To run this report, please go to the Reports section from the Main Menu. Select the "Dues & Donations" button on the left side under the Report Categories, and then double click the report name to run the report. You can specify a date range and sort order. This report may be viewed on screen in Preview, printed to a number of output formats, or exported to MS-Excel. This report would be helpful if you wanted to acknowledge the top contributors in the last fiscal year (July 1, 2008 - June 30, 2009). In this case, you might be interested in just dues payments and donations. When you Run the Report, you can uncheck the box for In-kind Gifts, sort by "Total," and specify the date range. Your list will contain the following information for each contact: contact ID#, first name, last name, company, dues total, donation total and grand total. Sorting by Total puts the largest grand totals at the end of the report. The report also totals the dues, donations, and grand total for all contacts on the list. If you have any questions, please contact our support office toll free 1-800-562-6080. Address: 300 North Pottstown Pike, Suite 200, Exton, PA 19341 To unsubscribe: www.museumsoftware.com/newsremoveform.php or email news@museumsoftware.com
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