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Much like their for-profit counterparts, Nonprofits and NGO’s also reach across international borders in order to run their programs, connect with their constituents, and raise resources. They have the same needs as solely US based nonprofits, but have to be agile enough to not be limited by additional challenges that may occur when broadening their reach around the globe.
When you hire a consultant to help you with your Salesforce implementation, you’re hiring them because you have a problem you need help with whether it being moving from another system to Salesforce or working to enhance your existing Salesforce instance. It is important to find a trusted advisor, not an order taker.
Delivering the right message at the right time is shared across all channels as a popular set of buzzwords. As a marketer, you know this statement is true and your development and program staff also know that delivering the best message, at the exact time it should be seen, makes a huge difference in raising funds and providing better services.
We are in the midst of a major technology revolution and succeeding in this revolution does not mean consuming additional technology, or as many of our customers fear, replacing employees with new technology. Nonprofit organizations need to focus on enabling their employees, board members, and the constituents they serve to achieve more with technology.
As a Salesforce Admin, you have to be responsible for creating Salesforce data, maintaining that data and even extracting it so it can be analyzed and used by others. Over the years, there have been a number of Excel based tools that have been created to help Admins (and others) to perform these tasks. I often encounter Admins who don’t know any of these applications exist, so I thought it would be helpful to review the ones that I used.
I had the pleasure of attending Tahoe Dreamin’ – a Sacramento User Group sponsored event that took place at Lake Tahoe. This event was a jammed packed day of networking, educational sessions and a solid vendor expo.
In the effort to increase the diversity of technology companies, one area where efforts often break down is the hiring process. We would like to share some practical suggestions that worked for our team. Hopefully, our experience will be helpful to others in increasing the diversity of your team, whether it is racial, gender, sexual orientation or another dimension of diversity you are seeking.
“So what does that mean that your company is virtual? Is your paycheck virtual too?” Those were the first questions my dad asked me when I told him I was applying to work at Cloud For Good. After assuring him the paycheck would be very real, I started to explain to him the wonders of the cloud and the idea that working from home is not some passing trend.
Start with a budget! With Salesforce, a lot of functionality is available right “out of the box” for the base price. There are some things, like automation and integration, that potentially add line items (and thus, dollars) to the budget – you’ll need to decide whether you can afford those items up front, or whether you can continue some processes manually while you allocate budget to add those on later. Or, you might prioritize some apps, and decide you don’t really need the others at all.
Identifying learning styles among your users doesn’t need to involve having each user take a quiz or survey. You can likely identify some personality traits or tendencies that indicate one or several learning styles by simply getting to know a person. Making an effort to appeal to different learning styles in your training sessions and training materials could be a game changer for you and your end users.
