Judi Sohn

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Setting up an easy welcome series in Salesforce

Judi Sohn

Using email templates and workflow rules, this is super easy to set up in Salesforce. Set up your email templates Okay, a little programming knowledge may be needed. After the email template passes browser tests, you can paste it into Salesforce. Our strategy: We want to send new non-donor contacts a series of 3 short emails.

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Setting up an easy welcome series in Salesforce

Judi Sohn

Using email templates and workflow rules, this is super easy to set up in Salesforce. Set up your email templates. After the email template passes browser tests, you can paste it into Salesforce. Setup -> Administration Setup -> Communication Templates -> Email Templates. . Spaced a week apart.

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ScreenSteps: Simple documentation

Judi Sohn

And it was cumbersome to organize and build. Rather than rehash what it does, here's their overview movie which explains it: You can export your lesson/manuals to HTML, Word or PDF and customize the template. I took screenshots with Skitch , recorded movies with Jing. Took forever. The problem is that things change.

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Introducing Apsona batch gift entry for the Nonprofit Starter Pack

Judi Sohn

While Common Ground’s batch tool was far from perfect, a lot of organizations used it and relied on it. At this point you can’t create batch templates, but you can clone an existing batch record so you don’t have to reset the fields each time. When the batch record is set, you start to Add Entries.

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Salesforce crossroads

Judi Sohn

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. Since it’s a set of managed packages, rather than a template, it will be actively updated. We can move later. Salesforce Nonprofit Starter Pack.

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Salesforce, Dreamforce & Nonprofits: It always comes back to the data model

Judi Sohn

A nonprofit either used the nonprofit template or they went off on their own to custom development on the basic Enterprise edition. That means that approximately 60% are using other applications such as Convio Common Ground or Luminate, the old template, Affinaquest , Outreach Suite or any number of combinations. Think about it.

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An update on my quest for project management bliss

Judi Sohn

Over a year ago, I wrote a post expressing my frustration in evaluating project management apps for my organization. Project templates. 50% discount for nonprofit organizations. I know that there are many organizations successfully using Dream Team. I’ve been wanting to write a follow-up post for a while.

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