Prelude built the first phase of the Points of Light Institute’s ambitious reporting and data collection system using SalesForce.com. The POLI supports more than 250 affiliate organizations around the United States and elsewhere. To encourage full affiliate participation, the POLI wanted to provide immediate feedback and accessible reports – we helped them get there.
I’ve spent the week in San Francisco at the heavily attended DreamForce conference of SalesForce.com, doing my best not to get sugar poisoning from drinking the company kool-aid. It’s a substantial event, an impressive system that keeps getting better, and my vocal cords and feet and hands are sore from networking, hoofing it between events, [...]
In November of 2009 we participated in the #npocamp – a fantastic event in the unconference or barcamp tradition. We came prepared to talk about beginning database theory and came away with priceless knowledge and wisdom from all the sessions.
I think it would be pretty cool if the pricing of various nonprofit technology products could be tied to the “good behavior” of the organization, in the sense that doing what is in their best interests in the long term is also in the best interests of the vendor, and should be rewarded. For example, [...]
Social Actions is a great project, bringing together donation and volunteer opportunity data from all around the web into a single API. It has really expanded the reach and accessability of these opportunities. We had such a great time creating the Social Actions Tuner and Social Actions continues to be more than deserving of effort by the nonprofit technology community. Why not make a new project?
