Want to ensure your Blackbaud NetCommunity website and emails are hitting the mark? In this session, you’ll learn how to use targeted and conditional content and security features to ensure you are getting the results you want.

1. Bull’s-Eye: Targeting Your
Website and Email in
Blackbaud NetCommunity™
SEAN PATRICK HOLLAND

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3. Agenda
• Segment email content using conditional formatting
• Customize webpage content using targeting and security
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4. Overview
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5. Ways to Target Content
Pages
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Email
Content
Parts

6. Setting up Roles
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7. Types of Roles
Visitors
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Alumni
Members
Donors

8. Roles Determine Targeting
• Roles determine the content users see.
• Roles can be created using a query or by manually adding
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users.
• The Everyone role is included with Blackbaud NetCommunity
and includes all visitors to your site whether logged in or not.
• Targeted content can encourage people to visit your
website.

9. Demonstration
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10. Targeting Pages and Parts
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11. Target Pages
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• Entire pages can be
created for specific
roles, for example,
board members.
• You can target the
entire page so that
only board members
can access it.

12. Demonstration
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13. Target Parts on a Page
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Targeting &
Security Tab
• Use this tab if a user does or
does not see a part.
• For example, if multiple
parts are on one page, a
user could see them all
depending on their Role
membership.
Targeted
Content Part
• Use this part if a user should
see one thing or another.
• You can have as many parts
as you need.
• The order of the parts on a
page determines who sees
what.

14. Demonstration
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15. Previewing Targeted Content
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In the View as field,
select Everyone.
Click View to
preview the
targeted content.

16. Add Conditional Content to Emails
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17. Conditional Content in Emails
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Recipient List
Determines who
receives the
email message.
Conditional
Content
Displays only
for certain
recipients.
Email

18. Demonstration
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19. Summary
• Segment email content using conditional formatting
• Use roles, recipient lists, and conditional content to determine who
receives emails
• Customize webpage content using targeting and security
• Use the targeting options and security settings to determine which pages
and parts are available for each role
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20. Steps to Create a Role
1 On the toolbar, click Users & Security.
2 Click Roles.
3 Click New Roles.
4. Enter a Role name.
5. Select an existing role and copy security rights from this role.
6. Select a query to base the role on or select the Members tab to
manually add users.
7. Click Save.
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21. Steps to Target a Page
1 On the toolbar, click Site Explorer.
2 Click Pages & Templates.
3 Create a page or open an existing page.
4 Click Page properties.
5 Select Targeting and security.
6 Click Add users and roles to assign permissions.
7 Select the View and Edit checkboxes as necessary.
8 Click Save.
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22. Steps to Target a Part
1 On the toolbar, click Site Explorer.
2 Click Parts.
3 Create a part or open an existing part.
4 Select Targeting and security.
5 Click Add users and roles to assign permissions.
6 Select the View and Edit checkboxes as necessary.
7 Click Save.
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23. Steps to Create a Targeted Content Part
1 On the toolbar, click Site Explorer.
2 Click Parts.
3 Click New part.
4 Define part properties.
5 Click Next.
6 Click Add New Part to create a part or click Add Existing Part to add
parts you have already created.
Note: Correct targeting for roles and users takes place on the
individual parts which are then added to the Targeting Content Part.
7 After all parts are added, drag and drop the parts into the preferred order.
8 Click Save.
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24. Steps to Add Conditional Content to
Emails
1 Create an email message.
2 Select the Insert tab.
3 Click Conditional Content.
4 Enter a conditional block name, and then click Insert.
5 Click Add Condition.
6 Select a query or enter a list of recipients.
7 Enter the conditional content to display.
8 Repeat steps 5-7 to add additional conditional content.
9 Click Save.
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