I stumbled into the SalesForce universe a little unexpectedly. Kirk and I were starting to flirt with Convio’s Common Ground*, and I had some previous experience as an SugarCRM administrator and customizer. I noticed a posting on the Nonprofit Salesforce.com Practitioners Group, Kirk reminded me to follow up on it, and six months later I’ve spent [...]
While on my way home from Thanksgiving and my 10 year high school reunion, I had plenty of time to read through this report by the Hewlett Foundation and McKinsey & Company. Why? We sat on the tarmac for 2 hours due to a snowstorm, but I was planning on reading it anyway, I promise. [...]
I finally figured out what that weird, high strung, can’t sleep, anxious feeling is that I’ve had for a few days. Stress! It’s been so long without deadlines and related technical problems beyond my control that I almost forgot what it was like. So much for blogging every day, but there’s a demo due tomorrow [...]
Since March I’ve been reading nonprofit blogs, going to meetings, scoping RSS feeds, reading Twitter messages, emails, and all kinds of stuff to educate myself. I think it’s working! Today I feel able to have a fluent conversation with someone who knows what they’re talking about in the nonprofit technology space, and only minorly expose [...]
I stumbled across an interesting RSS feed a week or two ago (thanks to Google Reader, not Stumble Upon, despite the fact that I stumbled upon it). It’s called Social Actions, and it might be trying to dragging the nonprofit/NGO/volunteer technology and data marketplace into the Web 2.0 era. In particular, I think the “Change [...]
