Can someone please address this? (Please?)

[BSF]

Dinkledog,
I would be happy to help out if I can. I have not received any emails so I have been operating under the assumption that you have not yet gotten to me yet.

So have you worked through the list of donors? If so, I never received an email.

Are you still working through the list of prize donors? If you need alsih2o to be working on stuff, I would suggest contacting him soon. I talk to him elsewhere and I know he has quite a bit keeping him busy as well. As I said, if you need help, I am happy to do what I can. Just let me know.

 

[maransreth]

A suggestion to see which of the money donors still want a prize, is to send a bulk email. If you have them in an excel spreadsheet, then use that in a mail merge that uses email.
Explain that this is to see which people respond within 1 week and who will be eligible for prizes and what there mailing address is. At the same time have a thread in General (not a sticky) that there will be an email going out, if you dont receive an email contact Dinkeldog with your new email and mailing address if they are still interested in getting a prize.

With the prize donors, just work with what you have at the moment and Alish2o's books.
Then in excel create a list of all the prizes and use the Sampling option under Data Analysis* to get a number beside each prize. This number equates to a list of money donors. Then vlookup to get the person's email address.

If you want help with the second part, this would take 5 minutes max for me to do.

* If you dont have Data Analysis under your Tools menu, you need to add it in. This will be found under the Add-In command from the Tools menu.

 

[Dinkeldog]

A suggestion to see which of the money donors still want a prize, is to send a bulk email. If you have them in an excel spreadsheet, then use that in a mail merge that uses email.

I have an excel spreadsheet of the member-donor's names. What I have for the prize-donors is a mishmash of e-mails. The last one that responded positively was seankreynolds, the ever gracious.

At this point, I think what I need is three or four people that can help me contact the remaining the member-donors and get physical addresses so we can send some stuff to them. AlSiH2O has largely taken leave of this forum, sadly, but he's got a part to play in the remaining also. I just want to optimize the remainder of the project so that it can be completed by Christmas.

If anyone is willing to contact people and get physical addresses (and I've been asking for screen-names), could you send me an e-mail at gdinke1 at uic.edu?

I appreciate the support with this.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

If anyone is willing to contact people and get physical addresses (and I've been asking for screen-names), could you send me an e-mail at gdinke1 at uic.edu?

Email sent

 

[DaveStebbins]

Its not needed. I got them all mailed out and everyone responded to the e-mail I sent them telling them it was mailed out.

For the record, I received my prize today in the mail. Many thanks to Greg, Chris, Rich, Kevin and everyone else who has been helping out since the server drive.

-Dave

 

[Steverooo]

Happy B-Day!

...so as my birthday present to myself I'm going to figure out today what to do with what's left.

Have a good one!

 

[Dinkeldog]

For the record, I received my prize today in the mail. Many thanks to Greg, Chris, Rich, Kevin and everyone else who has been helping out since the server drive.

-Dave

Don't forget Mark.

He's going to have a bunch of stuff to do yet, also. (I'm also hoping somehow to lure him back here more regularly.)

 

[Belen]

Well, it has been over a year for me and I have moved. Not sure if anyone ever had the address or not. Oh well.

 

[noffham]

Same here, no word yet. At least the server works!

 

[BSF]

I volunteered to help a bit. I have a list of email addresses and will be trying to send some out tonight. I'm not sure if either one of you are on my part of the list or not, but it looks like I have A's & B's, with a few C's. Mind you, those are email addresses, not usernames. So be on the lookout for emails from volunteers within the next couple of days.