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You choose a platform, signed with an awesome implementation partner who can translate your needs into technology, and you are extremely excited to get started. Wait… are you really ready to start the implementation?
From our experience at Cloud for Good this is not always the case. Many organizations want to start the implementation immediately after they chose their implementation partner. Everyone wants to get up and running on the new system as soon as possible. To make sure that you and your organization are ready, you should review and answer the questions in this post.

July 18, 2013

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This blog post is part of the Apps for Good Webinars where awesome AppExchange providers

July 11, 2013

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In Salesforce, the Case Object is often used to track a constituent issue or problem that needs resolution. Just like anything else in Salesforce, it can be renamed. Most commonly: “Request” or “Issue.” Here are a few things you should consider.

July 9, 2013

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We reviewed the common email service providers who offer Salesforce integration including MyEmma, VerticalReponse, iContact, ExactTarget, and MailChimp.

June 18, 2013

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This blog post includes a comprehensive review of common online donation integration for Salesforce including Click and Pledge, Action Pages, Brickwork, and PaymentConnect.

June 5, 2013

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Using a data import tool may not be a personally transformative experience, but it should be transformative for your data. Jitterbit is another good and free choice you have, and it has features that may not change your world, but they’ll allow you to do some neat things when updating or adding information to Salesforce. If you’re a data geek like me, that always provides a little thrill.

May 29, 2013

Learn how Cloud for Good can work with your organization to create and implement strategic

May 21, 2013

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Whether it’s envelopes for fundraising materials, event invitations, volunteer release forms, thank you letters or end of year tax receipts, the ability for a non-profit to quickly generate and print out personalized documents is central to its success. While a lot of attention is given towards the right mass email platform, who do you turn to when you need to create mail merges from your Salesforce.com data?

May 8, 2013

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Is your system full of duplicates? Duplicate records can frustrate users, throw off reporting accuracy and in general cause havoc in your Salesforce ecosystem. In this post I am going to talk about a couple of tools available to prevent duplicates from coming into your system in the first place.

April 23, 2013

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