Thought Leadership

Ideas and strategies to help purpose-driven organizations create greater, lasting impact.

Latest Posts

New Salesforce Visual Workflow Features

With a drag and drop user interface, Salesforce Visual Workflow allows you to automate a series of business process steps. Read why we are excited about...

Handling Anonymous Donors With Salesforce

Respecting a donor’s request for anonymity is critical to your relationship with your donors but your organization should retain the donor’s name and contact information when...

Oh, What a Journey! A Closer Look at the Exact Target Marketing Cloud Journey Builder

If you’re like me and went to both ExactTarget Connections in Indianapolis as well as Dreamforce in San Francisco back to back, you’re probably nursing a...

Invest in Your Salesforce Administrator

It took 11 years, but salesforce.com finally created an “Admin Zone” at their annual Dreamforce conference. They have a Developer Zone for the coders, a Foundation...

Cloud for Good Shortlisted for the 2014-15 Cloud Awards Program

Cloud for Good has been shortlisted in the 2014-2015 Cloud Awards Program in the category Cloud Consultancy / SI of the Year....

Getting the WHOLE Team On Board: Lessons Learned About Change Management

The system has been customized, all packages have been installed, all custom fields have been configured, data migration completed, even training has been scheduled. But there...

5 Things to Consider When You Integrate Quickbooks and Salesforce

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]By Amlan Debnath with Workato Salesforce and Quickbooks are two of the preeminent cloud apps globally with large, passionate customer communities. Given the large installed...

User Adoption: Naming Your Salesforce

Naming software and software releases is a fairly common practice now. Operating systems are no longer just numbers they are Cheetah, Jaguar, Mountain Lion, Ice Cream...

Salesforce1 Mobile App

The possibilities are endless with Salesforce1, the Salesforce mobile app which gives you access to your data allowing you to continue to add and improve upon...

Support and Maintenance of Your University’s Salesforce Org: Leading Through Governance

In part one of our Support and Maintenance of Your University’s Salesforce Org blog series, we explored long-term maintenance and success strategies, starting with best practices...

Sunsetting Luminate CRM: What Nonprofits Should Expect

Cloud for Good recently hosted a virtual roundtable diving into the implications for nonprofit organizations as it relates to the end-of-life announcement for Luminate CRM (LCRM)....

How to Increase Conversion Rates Using Pardot

Increasing website conversion rates is a perpetual priority for both higher education institutions and nonprofit organizations. Considering the massive investments of both time and resources put...

Cloud for Good Honored as #2 on the 2021 list of 100 Best Small and Medium Places to Work in IT by IDG Insider Pro and Computerworld

July 12, 2021 [Asheville, NC] – IDG’s Insider Pro and Computerworld announce Cloud for Good as #2 on the 2021 Best Small and Medium Places to...

Support and Maintenance of Your University’s Salesforce Org: Staffing Recommendations

You’ve implemented Salesforce – Congratulations! This tool is a game-changer in elevating the advancement, recruitment and admissions, student success, communication, and other critical business capabilities of...

State of Salesforce Findings: Online Giving in the Nonprofit Sector

In the 2020 – 2021 State of Salesforce in the Nonprofit Sector Report, Cloud for Good outlined how nonprofit organizations are currently harnessing the power of...