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Migrating from Common Ground to NGO Connect: Tips for Migration

Switching between two systems is always a tough process. The data migration, getting used to something new, having to change the way you and your team...

Talk To Your Data

Every day there should be a conversation that happens between you and the data inside of your Salesforce instance. Starting that conversation is not always easy...

Top 5 Chrome Extensions for Salesforce Administrators

If you’re a Salesforce admin or power user, listen up! There are some great community-developed Chrome extensions meant specifically to enhance the Salesforce user experience. Have...

Making it Seamless: Autolaunched Flows and Custom Settings

How autolaunched flows can help your users, and how you can combine them with custom settings to make your life as an administrator easier....

Top 10 Single Largest Nonprofit Fundraising Events of 2014

Last year, Rallybound produced their inaugural infographic: Top 10 Single Largest Nonprofit Fundraising Events. In keeping with this tradition, they have recently released their new infographic...

Target Your Constituents with the Right Message at the Right Time

Automate your email, mobile, and social marketing to ensure you reach the right people in your network with the right messaging at the right time to...

My Favorite Things: Apsona for Salesforce

Apsona for Salesforce is an app available on the AppExchange. It is a supplement to your existing Salesforce that significantly expands your ability to work with your...

Where Are We Growing and How Are We Going to Get There? You Need a Roadmap.

Implementing a roadmap helps us to properly set expectations and follow a strategic path in order to get to those places we are growing. Here are...

Publish or Perish: The Promise and Pitfalls of Publisher Actions

Using the Salesforce Publisher Actions can help speed up how your users enter data, all while keeping it clean. Be careful, though--you'll want to think your...

4.5 Great Ways to use Pinterest and Salesforce

It hasn't exploded yet like the #askforce twitter channel, but it is gaining traction. Here are the top 5 ways Pinterest and Salesforce go together, like...

Why Integrations and Clean Manageable Data Help Change the World

For your non-profit, nothing can be more helpful than good, clean data. How to can you do that? Capitalize on integrations....

5 Key Items to Run a Successful Salesforce Implementation

When implementing new technology into your organization or expanding your existing system, a little bit of planning can go a long way in ensuring the success...

Questions to Ask Before Your Next Data Migration

If your nonprofit is considering a data migration in the near future, you can start planning now by asking some preliminary question....

Security vs Convenience: Securing Your Salesforce Org

When implementing Salesforce, we rightly focus on designing the system; what data do we need to input and the reports and dashboards we want as output....

3 Reasons to Start Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Now

There are a lot of factors that go into running a great peer-to-peer fundraising campaign. But before you delve into the planning phase, realizing its full...