User Profile

Because you may wish to use DynaSend to send email messages yourself, it is necessary that you create your own user profile to store the information that DynaSend uses in conjunction with its mail-merge values.

You’ll find the link to your USER PROFILE under MANAGE SUBSCRIPTION – the left menu of your Control Panel.

We strongly urge you to take just a minute or two to accurately fill in your profile.

Do not enter erroneous information – it may be merged with an important email message that you send to someone someday.

The user profile is separated into tow components.  The first is the “signature block”

Fill in these fields exactly as you want your signature block to appear.

Note:  What appears in these fields is not set-in-stone.  For instance, in the example above, Jill O’Malley could have filled in the “Email” field with “Cell Phone: 988.633.1322”  That would work fine.

The other part of the user profile consists of other miscellaneous information:

This is all self-explanatory with the exception of the duplicated phone number.  The phone number in the signature block (top graphic) allows you to have a prefix before it.  For instance you might type:

Phone: 212.422.6651

Direct: 212.422.6651

Office: 212.422.6651

Etc.

In the second case (lower graphic) you should enter just a “pure” phone number.  For example:

212.422.6651

(212) 422-6651

Etc.

The reason is that the lower phone number field represents a mail-merge field that may be used in the body of an email message.  For example, your library administrator may have created the following text in one of the templates in your library:

…I can always be reached by telephone at <! -- PHONE //--> to answer any questions you may have.

This mail-merge code will be correctly translated into:

…I can always be reached by telephone at 212.422.6651 to answer any questions you may have.

Clearly you would not want it translated into:

…I can always be reached by telephone at Phone: 212.422.6651 to answer any questions you may have.

One last tip, and for much the same reason, we advise that you spell out your state, rather than using the two letter postal abbreviation.