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Salesforce Nonprofit Dashboards: Not Just For Fundraising
If you’ve made the jump to Salesforce, your fundraisers are probably already using dashboards to quickly evaluate the health of their donation pipeline, track the progress...
Dreamforce 2014 was filled with lots of exciting announcements of new Salesforce products, features, and functionality. I'm greatly looking forward to what's in store for both...
Lightning Strikes Dreamforce – What It Means for Your Organization
What is Salesforce Lightning, and why is it important? Fundamentally, Lightning is a set of tools that allow organizations to customize the way they use Salesforce...
Clicktools Surveys: Collecting Constituents Feedback in Salesforce
Clicktools is an online survey creating/capturing solution available through the Salesforce AppExchange. Offering organizations the ability to integrate customer feedback into their Salesforce database. Considered one...
Top 5 Favorite Salesforce Announcements at Dreamforce
After months of planning and anticipation, Dreamforce ’14 has come and gone. We were inspired by keynotes, learned new things at hands-on training sessions, danced to...
4 Steps to Become Salesforce Analytics Cloud Ready
This new Salesforce Analytics Cloud helps “everyday users” (not trained analysts) make informed decisions. However, implementing this technology would require a significant commitment from your organization....
Lessons Learned: Great Customer Service Through Humanity
There are some calls that go sour, some meetings where obstreperousness is abundant, and some that happen to fall on everyone’s bad day. These are key...
Using Salesforce for Performance Monitoring and Program Evaluation
Salesforce can be a powerful tool that can enable an effectively implemented evaluation. However, there are ways to use Salesforce for program evaluation successfully, and some...
Idealware Report: The Landscape of Salesforce for Nonprofits
When our friends at Idealware approached us with their plans to research and write a new report, The Landscape of Salesforce for Nonprofits: A Report on...
Salesforce Peer to Peer Fundraising: Click and Pledge
Click & Pledge has pioneered the trend toward individual “peer-to-peer” fundraising. Watch this webinar to learn about their Salesforce integration....
One of the most common complaints on the various forums that serve the nonprofit community is that data has somehow either mysteriously disappeared, or that it...
You CAN Do It: Moving Metadata Between Production Instances
When implementing a new Salesforce instance from an existing one, sometimes it’s not just the data you need to move. It’s the heavy stuff: Metadata. Without...
Why a System Administrator Profile Is Not For Everyone
Before assigning the System Administrator profile to a user, think carefully about the power and responsibility you are conveying on that user and try to right-size...
