Group Email Overview (Emma)
Group Email Overview (Emma)
Table of Contents
UT Group Email Overview with Emma
Adding new subaccount users (Managers)
When to use Group Email
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- Group Email is used to send important, university-sanctioned messages to specific groups in the university community.
Authorizations/Permissions
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- Author: Can create (but not send) messages.
- Manager: Can create, cancel, send and approve messages.
Available resources
Emma Group Email features
Adding new subaccount users (Managers)
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- Use the magnifying glass at the top left hand corner of your screen to verify you’re in the correct subaccount.
- Click on the down arrow in the burnt orange menu bar at the top of your screen (beside your name)
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- Select Users from the menu.
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- Click on Invite a User
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- This will launch a window asking you to confirm the new user’s email address and permission level.
- Always use the person’s IID (their EID followed by @eid.utexas.edu, for example abc123@eid.utexas.edu)
- Select Author Permission level
- Click on Send Invitation
- This will launch a window asking you to confirm the new user’s email address and permission level.
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Exported Items (Manager Only)
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- Use the magnifying glass at the top left hand corner of your screen to verify you’re in the correct subaccount.
- Click on the down arrow in the burnt orange menu bar at the top of your screen (beside your name)
- Select Exports
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- This display shows you what has been exported, when it was created and when it is available until. It also allows you to download the export using the down arrow to the right hand side of the screen.
Viewing Archived Content
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- Use the magnifying glass at the top left hand corner of your screen to verify you’re in the correct subaccount.
- Click on the down arrow in the burnt orange menu bar at the top of your screen (beside your name)
- Select Archived Items
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- This display shows you your archived content and the date it was archived. Clicking on the down arrow to the right of each item allows you to restore that content.
Audience
Managing contact fields:
https://help.myemma.com/s/article/Manage-contact-fields
Groups vs segments
Groups:
All of the contacts in your account are collectively referred to as your "audience". To help keep your contacts organized you can create groups, for example, donors and volunteers, or customers, prospects, and partners. They can also be used to organize contacts by geography, gender, customer type, or subscription preferences.
Segments:
Segments are created based on data stored in your account. This includes:
- Contact data that you import into your account.
- Details submitted by contacts through a signup form or manage preferences form.
- System-generated data, like date subscribed.
- Open or click activity from previously sent mailings.
You can't add contacts to a segment the same way that you can add them to a group. Instead, people automatically become members of a segment when their subscription data or personal details match the segment criteria. Likewise, when a contact's data no longer matches the segment criteria, they are no longer included in that segment.
Campaigns
Creating a new mailing
Using UT-branded templates
- From the Home screen click on Create a New Campaign
- For standards messages select Regular Email, enter a campaign name, then press continue.
- The next screen you see will be Templates, you can either code your own or use the UT Branded Templates.
- Double clicking on the thumbnail image of the template you wish to use will open the message editor. By default Save allows you to save your modifications as a draft message, you can also save your changes as a new template.
- Clicking into any of the content blocks in the message will allow you to edit the message. You can also drag new types of content onto the screen using the tiles at the left hand side of your screen.
- Once your done, click Review & Send (more information about this process is available in the following section.
Reviewing and sending email