Judi Sohn

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Nonprofits: Have we had enough of "vote for me" fundraising yet?

Judi Sohn

Chase gives $5 million to nonprofits based solely on the votes of regular folk on Facebook. " In reality, the challenge illustrated exactly why these "vote for me" contests in the nonprofit world have got to go away. This weekend, the winners were announced in the Chase Community Challenge. Beth does a wonderful job.

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Nonprofits: Have we had enough of "vote for me" fundraising yet?

Judi Sohn

Chase gives $5 million to nonprofits based solely on the votes of regular folk on Facebook. " In reality, the challenge illustrated exactly why these "vote for me" contests in the nonprofit world have got to go away. This weekend, the winners were announced in the Chase Community Challenge. Beth does a wonderful job.

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On Uncommon Ground

Judi Sohn

You would assume that with other fundraising solutions targeted to the midmarket nonprofit, Common Ground wouldn't be missed. Salesforce is a platform that processes close to a billion transactions a day , serves ~100,000 commercial customers and 16,000 nonprofits. Too many moving parts. You would be wrong. Why does it matter?

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My top 5 Salesforce/Common Ground administrator tips (as presented at the Convio Summit)

Judi Sohn

This year, there were enough nonprofit organizations already on Common Ground to warrant a session or two aimed at users, rather than just to sell existing Convio clients to the application as was found at previous Summits. Pay special attention to the free and discounted for nonprofits sections. What did I miss?

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Salesforce crossroads

Judi Sohn

Our database is set up based on the old nonprofit best practice of putting individual constituents/donors in a bucket “Individual&# account. At this point, there are two very different paths we can take: the new Nonprofit Starter pack from Salesforce, or Convio Common Ground. Salesforce Nonprofit Starter Pack.

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Everything

Judi Sohn

At the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference I attended a group discussion breakfast about personal vs. professional branding. C3 currently has 7 staff members and we've done some pretty amazing stuff to fight colorectal cancer with little resources. I am a proud member of NTEN , the trade association so-to-speak of nonprofit techies.

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It's almost time for #11NTC - See you there?

Judi Sohn

I look forward to the NTEN NTC (Nonprofit Technology Network's conference) every year. I'm on a panel with Farra Trompeter (@farra) and Danielle Brigida (@starfocus) and we'll be talking about walking the line between who you are as a person, and who you are as a nonprofit employee. I love it.

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