Salesforce.com for Non-Profits: Overview
Thanks go out to Steve Andersen at ONE/Northwest, a consulting firm that does a lot of work with nonprofits, for his 1-page summary for non-profits researching Salesforce for their organization.
Is Salesforce.com right for your Nonprofit?
This document is meant to be a starting point for nonprofits in making their decision whether Salesforce.com is a good choice for their organization. It will give some introduction to what Salesforce.com does, and the benefits and risks involved in using it.
What is Salesforce.com?
Salesforce for Google Apps - Launch Demo
Eons ago (mid-April), the same team that brought you Salesforce for Google AdWords launched Salesforce integration with other business apps in the Google Apps suite: GMail, Google Documents, Google Talk, and Google Calendar.
The good folks at ZDNet published the launch and demo, in case you couldn’t make it.
I’ll be going into more detail later about how to set up each aspect of these apps.
Salesforce.com Summer08 Release Notes - Review
Thanks again go to gokubi for reviewing the Summer ‘08 Release Notes and providing some quick commentary. When I saw the blurb about Multiday Events for the calendar, I raised an eyebrow. I’m curious to see how this works with syncing to their Connect to Microsoft Outlook (and/or Google Calendar) product.
Nonprofit Products for Salesforce.com
If you’re a nonprofit that is using Salesforce, or thinking of using Salesforce.com’s Nonprofit Edition for your organization, make sure you check out their AppExchange partners that provide non-profit discounts for their solutions. This information is listed on the Salesforce.com Foundation page for now, but grassroots efforts are underway to list this information in a Google Group where it can be more searchable. Stay tuned.