Dearest Friends and Colleagues Across the Network--
A little backstory before I begin--we've been atrocious at keeping up with NCOA changes. As in we really haven't been keeping up at all. For years. Children have been born and grown since we've kept up with this stuff. (Whoops ...)
And so, here I am, with a drive and desire to do better. To pull our data up by the bootstraps, dust ourselves off, and make good. I recently did a mailer and my printer sent me back a couple of NCOA lists, and I'm wondering where to begin with them. Of course, the printer's lists don't contain the constituent IDs that I had in my original list (DOH), and there are 1665 records in the list of moves.
Before I dig in and start doing them all by hand, I'm wondering if there are folks who have any experience in this realm of recovery from NCOA delinquency with tips, tricks, or an allusion to resources to review and learn from? I've taken a look at the NCOA report in Tess, but it's sort of a mystery amongst mysteries to me at the moment.
Thank you for your thoughts and reflections on this!
Hi Brian,
If your database is seriously out of date, you may want to use a service like http://www.melissadata.com/ to get it in good order. I used them about ten years ago and they were reasonably priced. Then you would have account numbers and could ask for the data to be returned in Tessitura NCOA program friendly.
Susan