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The Future is Now: Taking your Chatter Publisher Actions Mobile - Cloud for Good

The Future is Now: Taking your Chatter Publisher Actions Mobile

Chatter Publisher Publisher actions allow you to perform simple tasks such as creating child records from within the record’s Chatter feed. Read more about publisher.
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To CRM or not to CRM: Is that the question? - Cloud for Good

To CRM or not to CRM: Is that the question?

When evaluating your needs and choosing to implement a CRM solution, I recommend starting by asking the five W’s: Who, What, Where, When and Why.
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Custom Code: Are you ready? - Cloud for Good

Custom Code: Are you ready?

It is an interesting dichotomy that while writing custom code allows you to manipulate the system in very sophisticated ways, every bit of custom code that
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At Project's End: Separation Anxiety and User Adoption - Cloud for Good

At Project’s End: Separation Anxiety and User Adoption

Some of the biggest angst for my clients comes at the end of a project. Wrapping up an implementation brings all sorts of mixed feelings: pride
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12 Ways Dreamforce is Hard - Cloud for Good

12 Ways Dreamforce is Hard

Read 12 reasons why Dreamforce is hard to wait for. See you at Dreamforce 2013.
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Best (of the Best) Practice with Salesforce - Cloud for Good

Best (of the Best) Practice with Salesforce

There’s a lot of talk about Best Practice in the nonprofit sector, and having consulted on projects large and small, I want to take moment to
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Better Living Through Training and Documentation - Cloud for Good

Better Living Through Training and Documentation

As a system administrator, it’s not only your job to ensure that reports are created, data is kept clean, and new fields and workflows are created.
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Ensuring Training Success - Cloud for Good

Ensuring Training Success

Whether you arrange for training from a consultant, manage it yourself, or use some combination of the two, there are a few techniques you can employ
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Using Salesforce to Cultivate Donor Relationships - Cloud for Good

Using Salesforce to Cultivate Donor Relationships

From finding new donors, growing gifts from existing supporters, or managing the back-end fundraising efforts, Salesforce helps organizations establish and grow donor relationships in addition to
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Ready To Start With Your Implementation? Think Again - Cloud for Good

Ready To Start With Your Implementation? Think Again

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…
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Kestryl Lowrey and Tyler Rendleman

Salesforce Has a New Vision for Nonprofit Cloud, What Does This Mean for Your Organization?

Salesforce has announced a new vision for Nonprofit Cloud that creates innovation through consolidation with the core Salesforce platform.
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How Talent for Good Transforms Salesforce Staffing

How Talent for Good Transforms Salesforce Staffing

Learn how a prestigious land-grant research university in Massachusetts has leveraged Talent for Good to build toward a more impactful future.
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The Value of Cloud for Good Direct Response Services

The Value of Cloud for Good Direct Response Services

When an organization’s critical fundraising facilitators are weakened, Cloud for Good Direct Response Services helps strengthen those efforts
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7 Tech Trends You’ll Love This Valentine’s Day

7 Tech Trends You’ll Love This Valentine’s Day

As Cloud for Good forges new paths in the higher education and nonprofit spaces in 2023, several trends have begun to catch our eye.
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Supporting Turkey and Syria in Their Time of Need

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake has struck Turkey and Syria, killing thousands and injuring tens of thousands more. Here's how you can help.
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Marketing Cloud Social Studio Retirement

Marketing Cloud Social Studio Retirement: What’s Next for Salesforce and Social Media Management?

Planning a migration from Social Studio or looking for a new platform? Sprout Social puts data at your fingertips in one central location.
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What Can Slack Do For Higher Education?

What Can Slack Do For Higher Education?

The value of Slack is generated from its ability to connect people, tools, and operations, creating a repository of accessible knowledge.
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Salesforce Spring ’23 Release: What You Need to Know

Salesforce is flying into the New Year with even more features to enhance your users’ experience in the Spring '23 release.
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Five Tips For Selecting A CRM Implementation Partner

Five Tips For Selecting A CRM Implementation Partner

No matter which CRM solution your organization implements, the overall success of the implemented technology is tied directly to your partner.
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Doing More With Less: A Conversation With Salesforce On How Technology Can Power Your Organization Through Uncertainty

A conversation between Salesforce and Cloud for Good on how mission-driven organizations can leverage smart, scalable technology to deepen impact, drive efficiency, and future-proof their missions.
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Reimagining the Student Experience: A Conversation with Salesforce on Building the Next-Gen Student Information System

A conversation between Salesforce and Cloud for Good on the future of student information systems (SIS), why legacy tools are no longer enough, and how AI
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Salesforce Summer '25 Release: What You Need to Know

Salesforce Summer ’25 Release: What You Need to Know

Learn about the most important highlights in Security & Permissions enhancements, automation and screen flow updates, and more in Salesforce's Summer '25 Release.
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Less Admin, More Impact: How Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud Transforms Grantmaking

Through empowering grantmakers to streamline operations, enhance transparency, and make data-informed decisions that amplify impact, Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud for Grantmaking is transforming grantmaking processes for organizations.
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7 Key Advancement Insights From CASE Drive 2025

The importance of being data-driven, AI, enhancing fundraising efforts, the need for innovative solutions, strategic planning, and more took center stage at CASE Drive 2025, and
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Woman facing AI humanoid robot exploring human-AI interaction - Cloud for Good

Why Salesforce Outpaces the Marketing AI Competition: Marketing Cloud vs HubSpot

In this post, we compare Salesforce Marketing Cloud’s AI for marketing with HubSpot’s AI for marketing, diving deep into their features, performance, scalability, and results.
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