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What You Should Do Before an Enterprise-Wide CRM Implementation

What You Should Do Before an Enterprise-Wide CRM Implementation

Implementing a constituent relationship management (CRM) application can be a difficult project for organizations with multiple large complex departments. An assessment of the organization's CRM strategy,...
Recovering from Dreamforce

Recovering from Dreamforce

Dreamforce 2013 is over. In theory, you've bodily recovered from the walking, talking, learning, and partying. Now what? How can you best leverage all the stuff...
Thank You Letters: Leveraging Donation Split & Conga Composer

Thank You Letters: Leveraging Donation Split & Conga Composer

How are you currently generating thank you letters for your donations? More importantly, how can you generate a thank you letter from a donor that has...
The Ethical Consultant

The Ethical Consultant

I got into a discussion with a client recently about ethical consulting. I’ve had this discussion with colleagues, co-workers, friends and mentors through the years, but...
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Going to Dreamforce? Let’s Meet!

Are you going to Dreamforce? Let's schedule a time to meet!...
Don't Be a Fish Out of Water: Preparing for a Salesforce Migration

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...

Winter ’14 Release: My Favorite Features for Nonprofits

Check out Trish Perkins top new features in the Salesforce Winter '14 release....
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Audit Trail – A Hidden Gem

The Audit Trail helps you track the recent Setup changes that you and other administrators have made to your organization. Learn more....
Salesforce Administrators and Puppies

Salesforce Administrators and Puppies

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

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

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....
Dreamforce 2023: Public Sector Keynote Instant Reaction

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

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

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

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....