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Finding a Trusted Advisor

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...

How Nonprofits Can Get Past Technology Culture Shock

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...

MS Excel Tools for Salesforce

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...

Tahoe Dreamin’ – The Advent of User Group Led Conferences

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...

#BestTeamEver: A True Story of Virtual Working

“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...

Before You Build the House: Preparing to Implement Salesforce

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...

Seeing vs Doing: Understanding Learning Styles for Successful Training

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...

A Nonprofit Guide to the Salesforce AppExchange

We have been hosting Apps for Good webinars over the last couple of years and we have written many great articles about the different apps that...

Creating a Data Map When You’re Lost in Data!

A data map is a great way to document the process of uncovering the secrets of a data set. We use them for so many different...

Volunteer Time Off: Engineering the Future

Everyone at Cloud for Good is passionate about nonprofits. I love hearing about all the different organizations everyone is involved with - the variety allows us...

Cultivating Care with CK Family Services Through Salesforce Program and Case Management

Cloud for Good has helped CK Family Services leverage Salesforce to create a reliable system that can scale alongside the organization's mounting needs....

Utilizing Salesforce Marketing Cloud as a Shared Service

Cloud for Good dives deep into Marketing Cloud as a shared service and illustrates how to best leverage the multi-faceted solution....

Dreamforce 2023: Public Sector Keynote Instant Reaction

Cloud for Good brings you instant reactions from the Dreamforce 2023 public sector keynote address from industry expert Kristin Kiester....

Dreamforce 2023: Education Keynote Instant Reactions

Cloud for Good brings you instant reactions from the Dreamforce 2023 education keynote address from three of our education experts....

Dreamforce 2023: Nonprofit Keynote Instant Reactions

Cloud for Good and four nonprofit Salesforce representatives bring you instant reactions from the Dreamforce 2023 nonprofit keynote address....

Why Cloud for Good Clients Are Choosing the New Education Cloud

Hear from Cloud for Good clients on why the new Education Cloud is creating innovations leading to quantifiable progress....