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Improvements to Your Salesforce – Documenting Database Changes

Making improvements to your Salesforce platform is a process. We have provided some best practices to help you establish clear database improvement policies for your organization.

Salesforce Analytics 101: Organizing Your Reports and Dashboards

Salesforce Analytics (reports and dashboards) are awesome tools to help you view and work with your data, as well as present your data to your supporters.

Content Builder Adds Pizazz to Marketing Cloud

Content Builder is Marketing Cloud’s new cross-channel content app. It’s been in beta for over a year and it will be fully released this July. If

Dreamforce 2016 Registration is Open!

Registration for Dreamforce 2016 is now open! Take advantage of the discounted registration rate for nonprofits and higher education institution.! Learn, network, and develop your Salesforce

Stages of CRM Adoption

Through my work as a Salesforce consultant I believe there are three key levels or “energy states” an organization can potentially occupy. They run from low-adoption,

Data Validation for Your Salesforce Project

It's time for data validation. Here are some tips and tricks to making sure that you get your data looking exactly like you want it.

Data Proofing Your Salesforce Data

Data is a nonprofits best friend and should be treated as one of it's most powerful tools. Consider the information your organization may be recording on

Leveraging NPSP’s Employer Gift Match Functionality to Take Your Fundraising to the Next Level

We all know that managing matching gifts can be a frustrating process for nonprofits, but it is becoming a far simpler and more worthwhile endeavor. The

Come See Us at the Salesforce World Tour in Washington, DC!

The Salesforce World Tour is in Washington, DC on Thursday, April 28. There are many great sessions for nonprofits. We look forward to seeing you there!

Connecting the Clouds with Marketing Cloud Connect

The newest update of Marketing Cloud Connect allows organizations to seamlessly connect their constituent data from Salesforce CRM with the communication, automation, and analytics tools in

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The Evils of Multi-Select Picklists in Salesforce

None of us likes to limit our choices if we don’t have to, so on its surface Salesforce’s multi-select picklist (MSP) seems like a great field

Apsona Mail Merge for Salesforce

Running monthly or yearly statements for your households can be a daunting task, from creating a report in your Salesforce instance --to exporting the data to

4 Steps to Integrate Social Media Into Your Campaigns

4 Steps to Integrating Social Media into Successful Campaigns, is a helpful guide for understanding and using social media to meet your campaign goals.

Salesforce Sandbox and How To Use It

Who doesn’t like the idea of a sandbox? You can get creative, get dirty, and get better at what you’re looking to accomplish. Salesforce has some

Volunteer Management in Salesforce

There are a handful of Salesforce apps that specialize in volunteer management, three of which stood out for me; HandsOn Connect, Volunteers for Salesforce, and Skillanthropy.

5 Ways to Get Staff on Board with Chatter

Learn how Kids Included Together implemented a social chatter approach across their organizations. Read more to learn about their 5 tips for keeping it social.

You Can Do Anything With Salesforce

Implementing Salesforce so that it can do “anything” requires leadership, capacity, and lots of expectations management. Learn why.

Three Ways To Make Sure that Your Next Big Software Project Is A Success

Buying a new fundraising CRM or replacing your finance and HR systems are big investments with critical outcomes. How can you make sure that big software

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.

Happy Holidays from Cloud for Good

Written by Cloud for Good Team Cheers to a Great Year: Client Successes in 2018 Throughout the year, I have had the privilege of witnessing hundreds

Blockchain Is Reestablishing Trust In Nonprofits

Written by Cloud for Good Team NOTE: This blog was originally posted on Forbes. Read it here. Bitcoin and hundreds of other blockchain-based cryptocurrencies are on the

Understanding Our Clients Through Volunteering

Written by Cloud for Good Team Being part of the Cloud for Good team means that helping nonprofits is an everyday part of our job. We

Top 5 Reasons to attend the NYC World Tour

Still on the fence about attending the World Tour in NYC on December 13th? Think no more, and read on for 5 fantastic reasons to attend!

What Does Artificial Intelligence Mean For Nonprofit Organizations?

Written by Cloud for Good Team NOTE: This blog was originally posted on Forbes. Read it here. Artificial Intelligence is an area of computer science that

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Explore by Topic:

Industry

Topic / Function

Product / Service

Improvements to Your Salesforce – Documenting Database Changes

Salesforce Analytics 101: Organizing Your Reports and Dashboards

Content Builder Adds Pizazz to Marketing Cloud

Dreamforce 2016 Registration is Open!

Stages of CRM Adoption

Data Validation for Your Salesforce Project

Data Proofing Your Salesforce Data

Leveraging NPSP’s Employer Gift Match Functionality to Take Your Fundraising to the Next Level

Come See Us at the Salesforce World Tour in Washington, DC!

Connecting the Clouds with Marketing Cloud Connect

Latest Posts

The Evils of Multi-Select Picklists in Salesforce

Apsona Mail Merge for Salesforce

4 Steps to Integrate Social Media Into Your Campaigns

Salesforce Sandbox and How To Use It

Volunteer Management in Salesforce

5 Ways to Get Staff on Board with Chatter

You Can Do Anything With Salesforce

Three Ways To Make Sure that Your Next Big Software Project Is A Success

4.5 Great Ways to use Pinterest and Salesforce

Why Integrations and Clean Manageable Data Help Change the World

What Does GDPR Mean For U.S.-Based Nonprofits?

Happy Holidays from Cloud for Good

Blockchain Is Reestablishing Trust In Nonprofits

Understanding Our Clients Through Volunteering

Top 5 Reasons to attend the NYC World Tour

What Does Artificial Intelligence Mean For Nonprofit Organizations?