Prelude Interactive

I had a great time presenting and I’m thrilled if you thought it was useful.  Just a quick reminder – My small firm does lots of PHP (Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, CiviCRM) work, as well as SalesForce.com development, mostly for nonprofits.  Also, Meghan Morrison from Swift River Consulting and Kyle Longe from the One Star Foundation are great resources who can help you learn more about SalesForce for nonprofits – check out the user group page: http://usergroups.salesforce.com/nonprofits_austin/

At the end of this post I’ve attached an Open Office and PowerPoint version of the slides I (partially) read from yesterday. Let me know if there’s anything you’re still curious about.

Also, these are the links I remember that came up during the meeting:

http://nptech.unruhly.net – list of volunteer management software

http://www.rlweiner.com/resources – list of donor databases and other resources

http://dabbledb.com/ – an online tool for creating databases from scratch

http://civicrm.org – open source CRM built with Drupal

I forgot to mention Jitterbit, which is a very powerful (free) tool for performing migrations and integrations.  It allows you to associate tables and fields with a GUI, schedule runs, apply formulas, and lots of other stuff.  It’s a challenge to set up and assumes a technical user, but you don’t actually have to program any queries.

http://www.jitterbit.com/

And last but not least, SalesForce stuff:

http://www.salesforcefoundation.org/
http://wiki.developerforce.com/index.php/Nonprofit_Starter_Pack -
Nonprofit Starter Pack
http://sites.force.com/appexchange/listingDetail?listingId=a0N300000016cifEAA
- VolunteerForce app
http://www.convio.com/our-products/products/common-ground-crm.html
- Convio Common Ground

Care & Feeding of Relational Databases (OpenOffice)

Care & Feeding of Relational Databases (PPT)

All post-it topics, including those used here, lovingly posted to Flickr by Gregory Foster: