Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

The organization I helped found as Colorectal Cancer Coalition in 2005 officially became Fight Colorectal Cancer on Monday, March 6, 2011. However, a small organization with a small budget can make some pretty big changes. She really understood the organizations. Absolutely positively not! Why did we do this? She got it.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 22, 2013

Support and communication is everything. Organizations want to feel that they’re in partnership with the companies they’re working with. That fact has to motivate companies, not scare them. And I’m not talking about simply answering “How do I…” questions.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 4, 2011

For those of you in the New York City area who are wondering what the heck the big deal is, I invite you to consider a seminar hosted by my friend, Lisa Glass Kornstein of the Solid Foundation : Is Salesforce.com Right for Your Organization? . Support Center for Nonprofit Management. 305 7th Avenue, 11th Floor @ 27th St. Register Here.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 29, 2012

Not consulting, although I do handle a few support tickets and am working on some projects with clients directly, but systemically so it benefits the most clients at one time. The big difference is that instead of bringing knowledge and connection back to one organization, I’m bringing it back to all organizations on Common Ground.

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Judi Sohn

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

Disadvantages: In the past 2 years, Salesforce has introduced more updates that benefit organizations that have a traditional account<->opportunity model than I can count. The fantastic NPSF (Nonprofit Salesforce) community will help support those who are using it. We can move later. Bugs will be fixed.

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Judi Sohn

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

You’ve turned some of the hardest-to-please folks I know in the space into some of your most passionate supporters. Vinay continues to be a major thought leader in fundraising, and an inspiring colleague. That’s all good. Really good. But here’s what’s gonna happen the day after the IPO. Your new “customer base” will be Wall Street.

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Judi Sohn

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

You’ve turned some of the hardest-to-please folks I know in the space into some of your most passionate supporters. Vinay continues to be a major thought leader in fundraising, and an inspiring colleague. That’s all good. Really good. But here’s what’s gonna happen the day after the IPO. Your new “customer base” will be Wall Street.

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Judi Sohn

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

It has nothing whatsoever to do with my faith in the organization or my satisfaction with where things are heading. In fact, the organization has had an incredible surge in the past year or two thanks to both the rebranding and the efforts of my amazing colleagues. Why am I leaving FightCRC? Fight Colorectal Cancer is 6 years old.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

The organization I helped found as Colorectal Cancer Coalition in 2005 officially became Fight Colorectal Cancer on Monday, March 6, 2011. However, a small organization with a small budget can make some pretty big changes. She really understood the organizations. Absolutely positively not! Why did we do this? She got it.

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 9, 2012

So it’s surprising to me that thus far, Apple has done little to help families organize their iLives. You have to go to tech support first, make your case and prove you are who you say you are, then get transferred to the security team. Teenager #2 has her dad’s hand-me-down iPhone 4 and my hand-me-down 2009 MacBook.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 1, 2010

investment in companies is on behalf of my organization, not personal). Convio has been incredibly supportive of the Coalition the last 3 years, and I was thrilled to celebrate their success with them.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 23, 2009

But here’s the thing…and I’m being entirely sincere…I’m grateful that Convio has been a supportive partner of C3 since before Convio. It’s far from free, but if it’s a fit they’ll work within an organization’s budget and needs. Did I mention that it’s expensive?

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 23, 2009

But here’s the thing…and I’m being entirely sincere…I’m grateful that Convio has been a supportive partner of C3 since before Convio. It’s far from free, but if it’s a fit they’ll work within an organization’s budget and needs. Did I mention that it’s expensive?

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 22, 2009

This is my personal website, not a support forum. Over the years folks have started SOD-specific support sites, the most recent being thesphincterofoddi.com , but they’re still coming back here. If I tried to make it anything more than that, I was afraid I would ruin it. It’s not about pageviews.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 22, 2009

This is my personal website, not a support forum. Over the years folks have started SOD-specific support sites, the most recent being thesphincterofoddi.com , but they’re still coming back here. If I tried to make it anything more than that, I was afraid I would ruin it. It’s not about pageviews.

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Judi Sohn

AUGUST 18, 2013

In the 20 months since I left Fight Colorectal Cancer, I would guess that I’ve logged in to no less than 150 nonprofit Salesforce organizations. When trying to troubleshoot a problem, one of the first things I typically look at is how the organization has structured their security and sharing model. At the same time.

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Judi Sohn

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

They can use social media to monitor what is being said about their company and provide direct support. So that means in-Salesforce collaboration with Board members, or key volunteers, or your organization’s largest donors. Not organization-to-contact unless it’s about service/support or brand monitoring.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 1, 2012

That I would get too much distance from the day-to-day of actually using Salesforce/Common Ground at an organization. So when an organization wants to track membership, they need to either install another 3rd party app or add custom functionality to their Salesforce instance.

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Judi Sohn

JULY 11, 2011

Over a year ago, I wrote a post expressing my frustration in evaluating project management apps for my organization. 50% discount for nonprofit organizations. Difficult when you’re supporting staff remotely, and Dream Factory staff wasn’t as helpful as I would have liked. Uses Salesforce event/task and account data.

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Judi Sohn

AUGUST 9, 2009

I ended up using just under 7 billable hours of consulting support time. It was always a struggle before differentiating when a gift was from an organization or entity, and when it was from a single person. Salesforce will temporarily enable the ability to upload created dates, but only if you ask them by opening a support ticket.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 25, 2013

This post is part 3 in a series of articles aimed at organizations on Common Ground who need to get excited about what’s next if they decide to stay on the Salesforce platform. Then the organization attaches their gifts to either Appeals, or maybe Events. There are 3 levels to Causeview campaigns.

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Judi Sohn

JULY 27, 2009

I signed on with Idealist Consulting to support me in this project, and so far I’m pleased to say that I haven’t had to use as many hours with them as I thought I would. Convio support has been excellent, and I’m learning a great deal through good old fashioned trial and error. .&#

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 12, 2009

Keep in mind that our organization speaks to a smaller population than your average disease support/awareness group since we specifically focus on advocacy and patient education. We are the organization that is all about action. Let @CommuniCause know that C3 should be the organization selected should we make the top 10.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 12, 2009

Keep in mind that our organization speaks to a smaller population than your average disease support/awareness group since we specifically focus on advocacy and patient education. We are the organization that is all about action. Let @CommuniCause know that C3 should be the organization selected should we make the top 10.

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Judi Sohn

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Which brings me to the next great thing about Convio Common Ground: support. Convio support is looking in to that as well. We're both from small organizations, after all. The donations aren't being created. I'm sure they'll figure it out. But I love this new ability to do easy stuff as we catch it.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 1, 2009

It’s not going to move out of committee without grassroots support. Last year, we organized a one-day Congressional Butt-in phone blitz that generated nearly 2,000 calls to Congress, many of which resulted in additional co-sponsors to last year’s version of the bill. We have to have more cosponsors on this bill.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 1, 2010

My mantra: if it takes longer to keep my tasks organized than it takes to do the tasks, then it's the wrong solution. The guy goes on vacation or stays quiet for a while, and the users wonder if the app is still actively developed/supported. RTM is great.

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