provide two versions of messages - for bill sponsors/non-sponsors

KayW

Can you connect an alert to a particular bill, and then customize the alert message based on whether a member of Congress is a sponsor or not? Also, if you have multiple targets in an alert, can you create different messages for different targets?

Sally Heaven

Hi Kay - right now it's not possible to customize the message dynamically based on cosponsorship - but Convio does allow you to customize a message dynamically based on how the member of Congress voted. (This is commonly referred to as "thank" and "spank".)

We have a Feature Request to add functionality based on cosponsorship, so you should talk to your account manager if this feature request is of interest to your organization - he or she can add your name to the list of organizations who are interested.

Right now the way most folks handle this is to create two separate alerts, one for sponsors and one for cosponsors. It's also a good idea to include a reciprocal links to each alert - for example, "This action alert is to urge Representatives to become cosponsors of H.R. 123 - if your Representative is already a cosponsor, click here to send at thank-you message. Not sure if your Rep is a cosponsor? Click here to view the list of cosponsors."

Meghan Kissell

Kay-

I hope more people will keep asking for this functionality. It is something that CapWiz has been doing for years but it hasn't been a prioritiy for Convio (I've been asking about this for about 2 years now). I don't know if GetActive was able to do this, but we were told that we would get increased advocacy functionality once the two systems were integrated. Still waiting.

Kelly Gould

Meghan Kissell:

Kay-

I hope more people will keep asking for this functionality. It is something that CapWiz has been doing for years but it hasn't been a prioritiy for Convio (I've been asking about this for about 2 years now). I don't know if GetActive was able to do this, but we were told that we would get increased advocacy functionality once the two systems were integrated. Still waiting.

We are very interested in this as well! Please add the Sierra Club to your list of interested parties.