Setting up individual pieces of the Non-Profit Starter Pack

Here is a little tutorial that will walk you through setting up individual elements of the Non-Profit Starter Pack for Salesforce.com.  The NPSP is an open source package, so all of the code is available.  In our case, we wanted to use the Affilitions and Relationships objects in Salesforce.com, but we didn’t want anything else [...]

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Free Webinar on Plone-Salesforce Integration, Aug 27

Ever wondered how connecting the best content management system with the best CRM database? We’ll show you! You can improve your information flow and enhance your business relationships by connecting your website and database of relationships (contacts, clients, volunteers, etc).
This Thursday, August 27, at 1:00pm EST, ifPeople will lead a free webinar on connecting the [...]

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Salesforce CRM Mobile Updated for New iPhone

If you’re a salesforce.com user and you just bought a new iPhone, you’re in luck. Salesforce specifically updated its mobile application for Apple’s latest. Notable improvements include:

Cut, copy, and paste text from emails and text messages directly into Salesforce.

Create identical records with clone button.

Manage events with date-indexed view and calendar-like interface.

Find information with [...]

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Offer for rest of the month: Salesforce.com Enterprise licenses for just $20/m!

Salesforce.com is offering a limited time discount to sign up all your employees with Enterprise Edition licenses for only $20/m! Check it out here
Nonprofits can get 10 licenses for free and then 80% off after that ($30/m). B Corporations can get 80% off for all licenses. If you don’t fall into either of those categories, [...]

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NTEN NTC Presentation Online: An Open Civic Engagement Platform

This past week I had the chance to present, with Jon Stahl and Steve Andersen of One/Northwest, about the work we have done on integrating Plone and salesforce.com with a suite of tools to create an integrated communications platform. We featured the evolution software is making from large, limited flexibility systems to integrated, specialized systems. [...]

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New Nonprofit Tech Reports: Website, Social Media, Donor Software and more

The NTEN Nonprofit Tech Conference, held in San Francisco, Apr 26-28, was fertile ground for launching new reports for the sector. Here’s an overview of reports you should be aware of:

Nonprofit use of social media: The Nonprofit Social Network Survey report compiles the experiences of ~!,000 organizations in social media. The report shows that [...]

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NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference: Tune in live, connect, and find me

Sunday, April 26 starts the NTEN extravaganza in San Francisco. 1,400 people for this nonprofit technology event! Here’s a couple tidbits you should know to get more out of it (whether you are here or not) and also where I will be.
1. The “Science Fair” (aka trade show) is open to the public! Please join [...]

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Free goodies from salesforce.com

This month, salesforce.com, the most popular hosted CRM application, is celebrating its 10th anniversary by giving away free goodies! First salesforce.com announced it was giving away Mobile Lite, a way for mobile users to manage their salesforce.com data from their phones.  Additionally, during the month of April, you can sign up to get up to [...]

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NTEN session on integrated communications tools for nonprofits

Later this month will be the largest nonprofit technology convergence in the country, the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference. This year’s event is held in San Francisco, CA April 26-28. Last I heard it was already over 1100 attendees and approaching sold out!
I’m excited to be sharing some of the work and technologies ifPeople has been [...]

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