Occasionally, we receive requests for instructions on how to export a group of contacts from your email address book to MailChimp. If you take the time to clean up your address book and avoid a full address book dump, you can import your list safely. We’ve already got a few KB articles that explain how to export contacts from Outlook, Apple’s Address Book and Entourage. But if your list lives in Apple’s Address Book, Chimport might be for you and it’s available on the Mac App Store for free.
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Chimpsterous adds a new "Newsletter" page.
Last week, Federico announced a nice integration for posting a newsletter button to your Tumblr blog. If you have a Posterous site, I’d like to introduce you to Chimpsterous. Chimpsterous mimics MailChimp’s Embedded Signup Form feature and makes it easy for you to add a subscribe form to your Posterous site.
I think I’ve used about 8 or 9 HTML editors over the life of my HTML writing career. Anybody else remember HotDog? But lately, TextMate has been my editor of choice. I use it for all HTML, even HTML emails. Previously, the easiest way to use your favorite HTML editor with MailChimp has been our Paste in Code option. If you’re comfortable in TextMate, I’ve got some good news for you.
Filling the Gap: MailChimp’s Mobile Web App
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These days, everyone’s on the go. You probably need access to MailChimp reports and the ability to add new subscribers from home, the office, the car (not while driving, of course), wherever you are. MailChimp’s mobile lab works hard to bring native apps to popular platforms (like Chimpadeeoo, Golden Monkeys and MailChimp for iPhone), but we know there are lots more devices to address. Our mobile web app helps fill that gap.
You might have noticed that we updated the mobile version of the app when we redesigned the app earlier this year. The original mobile web app was released back in 2008—it was time for an update.
Back when we were prototyping Chimpadeedoo, our goal was to create a quick way to collect email addresses at a store register or event. After a lot of great feedback from our iPad prototype, we started building Chimpadeedee using Adobe AIR so it could be run on a desktop computer. This opened up the idea for a sign-up kiosk.
We’ve just released another version of Chimpadeedee with some new features (along with some bug fixes) that will make this a little easier.
Double Opt-In added to Chimpadeedee
Full Screen Mode
Chimpadeedee now runs in full screen mode. For Windows/Linux users, you can press F11 to toggle between a window and full screen. If you’re on a Mac, you’ll have a menu option (Window -> Zoom) as well as Command+Shift+F to do the same.
“Kiosk” tips: You may want to change the “Always on Top” setting for Windows Task Manager, since you will still be able to use Ctrl+Alt+Del to get it to appear. Also, Mac OS X won’t actually give up the goods when it comes to full screen mode, you can use Command+Tab to switch between your running applications, this includes Finder.
Double Opt-In
There’s a new check box in “Options” that allows you to enable/disable double opt-in. Now, new list members can confirm their subscription and have their subscribing IP address associated with the sign up.
These new options will give your subscribers a “kiosk”-like experience and keep lookie-Lous from checking out your files. You can download Chimpadeedee or update your installed copy from the MailChimp Labs page.