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We’re excited to let you know that we’ve added some great new features to our Pulse email marketing system based on your feedback.

• Custom Email Notification Option
• New Prefilled Quick Pledge Form Field
• Copy a Newsletter
• And more!

Read more here

We have also made a few other Composer Pro™ updates, including:

• Editing the export format to match the SX format: Now you can import the playlist file that you export without having to make quite so many changes.
• Re-ordering the Add Song Manually fields so that the SX required fields are listed together.
• Streamlining the way you enter syndicated programs into your program schedule.
• Creating a link to the most current playlist within the last 24 hours:

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wfcr/guide.guidemain?action=viewMostRecentPlaylist

As part of SoundExchange, we’re collecting playlist information for syndicated programs for reporting purposes. Since we have it, we thought it would be nice to share it with our Composer Pro™users.

Playlists for syndicated programs such as Jazz After Hours, Echoes, Sunday Baroque, C24 and many more are now available for your listeners to browse and search from your own Composer Pro program guide!

• Just make sure your Program Guide is up to date.
• Syndicated show playlists will automatically appear on your program guide with a playlist icon, as local playlists do now.
• They will be searchable.
• If playlists are uploaded ahead of time, they’ll also display in your ‘Now On Air’ widgets. (NOTE: Producers upload their playlists at different times, and right now, most upload retrospectively.)

The initial program list is not complete of course, but it’s a great start. We continue to work with program producers to collect more and more playlist data.

We’re thrilled to roll out a new, much-requested, Composer Pro™ feature  — the ability to import all playlists for a full day from one single file!

• Go to add a playlist for the desired day, and click on the new link/icon “Import Full Day“ at the top of each column, right below the date.
• Follow the steps, and import one playlist file, formatted as usual.
• You will see individual playlists added for each program that day.
• You can edit those individual playlist as usual.
• You can still add an individual playlist for any program that does not have one.

Syndicated Show Playlists

As you know, as part of SoundExchange, we’re starting to collect playlist information for syndicated programs, in addition to C24, for reporting purposes.

And since we have it, we thought it would be nice to share it.  We’ll be able to start making these playlists available for your listeners to browse and search from your Composer Pro program guide soon.

The initial list is not complete of course, but it’s not bad. We’ll of course continue to work with program producers to collect more and more playlist data.

For the most current list, see the Sound Exchange Blog.

Going to PRNDI next week?  So are we! Angie Tung and Steve Safran will be at PRNDI to share the latest on the Core Publish Pilot project. Look for them, and say hi.

As you may know, we have an exciting new Composer Pro feature in the works, based on your feedback.. It’s the ability to import a full day’s worth of playlists from just one file!

We’re getting there, but we need some help testing - if you’d like to help test and get a sneak a preview, please let me know.

Thanks!

Suzanne

Quick Pledge and Pulse email marketing products integrate seamlessly, and together allow stations to track and improve their e-marketing and fundraising activities.  Create an electronic appeal, insert special pledge tracking links, and see how many donations the e-solicitation generated, down to the dollar amount of each pledge.

If your station is interested in adding either service, please contact Marketing and Sales Manager Joe Orlando, at jorlando@publicinteractive.com or 888-729-8809.

For questions about how to add the tracking links to your Pulse emails, contact Sarianne Palmesano, sarianne@publicinteractive.com or 617.423.4499 x122

We continue to improve Public Interactive Composer Pro based on your needs and feedback. Here are a few new features in the works right now.

Improving Playlist Import

Filters: We recently updated the playlist import filters for Composer Pro and continue to think about ways to make this task easier for stations. Here is the current complete list of playlist import filters:

• Music Master
• Music Librarian
• Music Director
• Selector
• SoundExchange
• Generic tab delimited text

We’re also currently starting to work on an option to import a full day’s worth of playlist information from one file. Stay tuned!

We’re also working on a few smaller updates, like updating the order of the Add Song Manually fields so that the SX required fields are listed together and improving the way you enter syndicated programs into your schedule.

Syndicated Show Playlists