Gnosis How-To & Best Practices Articles

Connect4 is beginning to publish a series of helpful articles on various processes enabled by functions of Gnosis. Keep an eye out here for new articles to be published over the coming months.

Gnosis Email & Marketing Communications

• Communicating With Email
  A primer on email marketing and etiquette, and essential tips in creating an effective HTML email message.
   
• Effective Email Campaigns
  A primer on the options for managing content for your email campaigns, and essential tips in creating email messages that people will actually read.
   
• Editing Email Message Templates & Web Pages
  Instruction on configuring Expression Web, editing layout templates, content templates and web pages integrated with your Gnosis system.
   
• Email & Marketing Resources Links
  
  The following links are to useful communications and marketing resource web sites not affiliated with Connect4, but, which in our opinion provide excellent advice and/or information on the subject of marketing communications.
  • Tips for Writing Nonprofit Marketing Copy That Works
  • GettingAttention.org. Non-Profit Marketing Tips & Newsletter
     

General Data Management Tasks

• Importing Data & Linking External Data Sources
  Gnosis provides some simple but powerful tools to import data and optionally, link the Gnosis Database to live or extracted external data sources.
• Refreshing & Managing External Linked Data
  Gnosis provides the capability to link to external data sources - even when such sources are not generally available on-line.  This article provides information on how to link off-line external data, keep it current by refreshing it with extracts, and, how to even set attributes in the external data.

Non-Profit Management Tasks

• Managing Contributions
  Using Gnosis to receive and acknowledge contributions, and manage financial posting to your accounting system.

Enquiry/Feedback Management & Issue Tracking

• Setting up & Managing Issue/Enquiry Tracking
  Setting up and Using Gnosis' sophisticated issue/enquiry tracking system to help you to efficiently manage interactions with your constituents or customers.