SalesForce is a great platform, but getting started on it – especially without previous experience with a similarly complicated system – can be intimidating. I thought I’d write up some suggested steps. Overall, your goal should be to get a simple, small value out of SalesForce and build from there. Don’t try to set up [...]
It’s only been public knowledge for around 90 minutes, so please take everything in this post with a grain of salt, especially as I have no first-hand experience using any Blackbaud products, or most of Convio’s. At Prelude Interactive, we work quite a bit with SalesForce.com and the offerings surrounding that – like Convio’s Common [...]
Thank you for the opportunity to contribute to this site as a guest blogger. For the last five years, VolunteerHub has done extensive writing and research on issues related to volunteerism and volunteer management. A few trends appear to be growing consistently, and most volunteer organizations will be sure to face them. Handling the Boom When doing [...]
In the late summer and fall of 2011, we implemented a new website for the Girl Scouts of Central Texas (GSCTX). As always, we had little to do with how good it looks, as Creative Pickle did another wonderful job with the design.
There’s an increasing amount of scuttlebutt regarding a “1-click donation” feature or “Giving Easy Button.” I’ve thought about this through the SxSWi and NTC conferences, where the idea kept popping up. (Hat tip to @katyaN4G who suggests using pictures instead of text, including one individual, and making sure that individual is a puppy or kitten.) [...]
