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Work.com: Time for Another Look
One of the biggest obstacles to using Work.com to effectively manage goals was that it wasn’t integrated with Salesforce.com, so there was no automated way to
Even on a powerful platform like Salesforce, we’ve all had moments where we need a little bit more. Maybe your nonprofit is using the Non-Profit Starter
A simple, streamlined process can improve data quality and reduce user frustration. Visual Flows are a powerful tool for streamlining and simplifying data entry. After you
Running monthly or yearly statements for your households can be a daunting task, from creating a report in your Salesforce instance --to exporting the data to
4 Steps to Integrate Social Media Into Your Campaigns
4 Steps to Integrating Social Media into Successful Campaigns, is a helpful guide for understanding and using social media to meet your campaign goals.
There are a handful of Salesforce apps that specialize in volunteer management, three of which stood out for me; HandsOn Connect, Volunteers for Salesforce, and Skillanthropy.
The information your nonprofit gets out of Salesforce is only as good as the information your organization puts into it. Use webforms to collect useful and
Significant changes to the digital communication landscape help savvy organizations pivot to better engage their supporters. Salesforce Marketing Cloud’s Journey Builder allow sophisticated, intelligent donor journeys
While a Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) platform is a must for many organizations, Salesforce can also be fun. We provide tips so your nonprofit can have
How The Sausage Gets Made: Vetting Your Business Processes
If your organization sometimes feels like a rodent warren of haphazard business processes, there are some things you can do to make them better. Start by
Best of Salesforce Winter ’18 Lightning Features for Nonprofits
Each Salesforce release brings new and updated features to the platform. We explore some of the best Lightning features for nonprofits in the Winter '18 Release.
Salesforce can Help with US Tax Receipts for Donors
Donors are crucial to your nonprofit's success. They are required to have a written acknowledgement of any single contribution over $250 to claim it on their
Harness the Power of Your Constituent Network with Relationship Tracking in NPSP
Relationships as a general idea are fundamental to Salesforce. After all, Salesforce is a CRM – or constituent relationship management – tool. Let's explore how to
Data Segmentation: Categorize Your Constituents With Salesforce
There are many ways to categorize your data. After you understand how you’d like to categorize your constituents, the next step is thinking about how to
The Salesforce Lead standard object holds records representing individual people, typically as part of a sales process in the B2B (business-to-business) model. Using the Leads object
Don’t Be a Fish Out of Water: Preparing for a Salesforce Migration
Each Salesforce organization is housed at one of Salesforce’s data centers. Salesforce calls these groupings of clients instances and it is a good practice as a
Too often, in my experience, I’ve had clients treat a Salesforce implementation as a discrete moment in time: “We wanted Salesforce, we got Salesforce, we have
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.
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
