I CAN... Tell my personal story Help create smoke-free communities Urge Congress to increase funding for NIH Make sure women can get mammograms Ask my friends and family to take action Recruit new members for ACS CAN Be a part of the amazing grassroots movement that is sweeping the country... ONLINE! I CAN Personal Advocacy Pages 2007-2008 Manual
Table of Contents Section 1 Create Creating Your I CAN Page Page 3 Section 2 Connect Using your I CAN Page Manager Page 6 Managing Your Address Book Page 7 Connecting with Friends and Family Page 8 Section 3 Confirm I CAN Follow-Up Page 9 I CAN Page Summary Tool Page 9 2
Creating Your I CAN Page To begin creating your I CAN page, visit www.acscan.org/icanpages and click the red Create Your I CAN Page button. Next you will be directed to set up your page. Here, you can name your page, tell your personal cancer story (which will be automatically entered on to your page for you), upload your own picture and enter your fundraising goal. Once you ve completed this page, click Next Step Name your I CAN page Tell your personal cancer story Upload a picture from your computer Click Next Step to continue. Enter your fundraising goal 3
Creating Your I CAN Page After you set up your page, it s time to enter your contact information. This is where you will create your username and password so you can log back into your I CAN page from any computer. Enter your contact information Create your Username and Password Select Yes or No Click Next Step to continue. If you are willing, enter your mobile telephone number here for txt updates. Then, agree to the waiver by clicking on the box directly above the Next Step button. On this page, you also have the option of printing a copy of the waiver. Click here if you would like to print a copy of the waiver. Agree to the waiver Read the waiver Click Next Step to continue. 4
Creating Your I CAN Page Now you will be able to see and verify the contact information you entered on the previous pages. From here, click the Click Here to Continue Creating Your I CAN Page link. This will take you to the I CAN Page Manager which allows you to further customize your page, create your own URL and promote your page to family and friends.. Click here to continue designing your I CAN page. Welcome to the I CAN Page Manager. Here, you ll be able to further customize and manage your page, as well as read about great tips on promoting your page and ACS CAN to family, friends and colleagues. To get more in-depth instructions for these features, such as maintaining your address book and emailing family and friends, see page 6. 5
Using Your I CAN Page Manager From the I CAN Page Manager you can update your webpage, create a custom web page address for your page, create an I CAN Address Book, email your friends and family, see who s visited your page and enter monetary gifts you ve received offline. To learn how to do any of these actions, continue with the manual. Also, remember to visit this page often to look for great ideas and useful tips for recruiting others to join ACS CAN and take action on our issues! New ides will be posted at the bottom of the I CAN Page Manager. To further customize your I CAN page, To create your Address Book, To send email to friends and family, To see who has visited your page so far, To enter your offline donations, To create a custom web page address (URL), 6
Managing Your I CAN Page Address Book In your I CAN Address Book, you can either Import or Add Contacts to create the list you will email later on. To import contacts, To add contacts, click To Import Contacts, select your file format (Outlook, AOL, Yahoo or generic.csv file), open the correct application and search your computer for the file. Then, click Upload Now. Select your file format Open the program Find your file Click Upload Now to finish. To Add Contacts, enter their first name, last name and email address. Then, click Save. Enter first names Enter last names Enter email addresses Click Save to finish. 7
Connecting With Friends and Family To email friends and family to ask them to join or donate to ACS CAN or to take action in response to our advocacy alerts, you can send a pre-written email or create your own using the Blank Message template. Or, if they have already donated, you can send them a thank you message using the Thank You template. Asking friends template. Thank You template. Blank Template. To compose your email message, enter your name, your email address, the email addresses of those you d like to send the email to, your subject line and body text. Then, click Send. Enter your name and email Use your Address Book Enter email addresses Type your body text Type your Subject Line Click Send to finish. 8
I CAN Follow Up After you ve emailed friends and family, you can follow-up through your I CAN page to see who has viewed your page, and the amount they have donated. Filter your results by using the drop-down menu. Email friends who have viewed your page, but have not yet donated. I CAN Page Summary Tool Enter cash or check donations given to you by others here by clicking the Enter Gifts Received Offline link. This will update your page to accurately reflect all of the money you have raised for ACS CAN. Enter the donor name Enter the gift amount and payment type Click Save to finish. 9