I am currently enabling the User Email Preferences part and ideally want users to be able to both subscribe to Newsletters, Opt Out and provide us with details of the kinds of communication they want (e.g. I would like to receive communication regarding events/career opportunities/competitions, etc.

Looking at the Email Preferences part it seems as though users can only subscribe to newsletters and opt out.  I am thinking that the only way to ask users to allocate what they would like to receive info about would be by adding a User Interests part to the page as well and then create email lists based on the attributes it creates. 

I'd love any feedback on how other users have tackled this problem.

Cheers,

Kim Baldwin - RMIT University

This has been discussed at length on the independent forum for Blackbaud products - blackbus.org http://www.blackbus.org/forum/netcommunity-bbnc/4918-streamlining-email-subscription-process.html In short, there's no easy way for non-logged-in users. I have experimented with an attribute on the address, which users can update via a profile update. That only works for logged in users. If you'd like things to change then why not vote for my suggestion on the official way of getting features added to NetCommunity: http://blackbaudnetcommunity.uservoice.com/pages/905-general/suggestions/193887-non-logged-in-users-2-un-subscribe-to-from-querymailings-

I have developed what I think is a good and effective work around to make it easy for both registered and non-registered people to submit their email preferences and you could also capture other data as well.  Call me at 507-389-6835 as it is a little too complex to maybe write out here if you want to know my handy email tricks!

 Robyn Goldy
Minnesota State Mankato
507-389-6835