I’m thrilled to have Net Tuesday friends Darren Barefoot (coming from France!) and Theo Lamb kicking off the 2012/13 season.
Category: Meetup
Meetup: Salesforce nonprofit user group – data imports, email integrations & more — January 18, 2012
Please join us at the third Vancouver Salesforce nonprofit user group meeting.
This will be an informal gathering of nonprofit employees, volunteers and allies who are either working with Salesforce or just interested in learning more.
A rough plan for the night
- help beginners with their first import of data into Salesforce (bring your spreadsheets and laptops!)
- discuss email integrations with Salesforce from the App Exchange. (Homework – Groundwire’s email service provider review.
- put our collective brains to whatever challenges the group presents.
Snacks will be provided courtesy of the Salesforce Foundation.
Date and location
Monday, January 30 2012
5:30 – 7:30pm
The HiVE
210 – 128 W Hastings St
Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 1G8
Net Tuesday is proud to have Communicopia’s Jason Mogus presenting at our February 7 meetup. NOTE: We expect this event to be very popular, so registration is capped. Please RSVP to confirm your attendance.
There has been a sea change recently creating new models for how social change organizations (or start up businesses) structure themselves to accomplish a social good. Network organizations, typically those “born after the Internet”, are smaller, nimble, less hierarchical, highly collaborative and deeply social by nature. Their leadership, culture, structure, programs, and outcomes are often quite different from those of traditionally structured NGO’s.
As these structures are more aligned with the fundamental organizing principles of the web, done right this enables these organizations to punch far above their weight online. In this session we will discuss:
- the differences between network orgs and more traditional NGO’s
- why network orgs are an adaptation to the unique challenges and opportunities of our times
- why traditional NGO’s struggle with managing digital innovation
- why network orgs create better online campaigns – including many examples!
- some fundamental principles of network centric campaigns
Come with your own examples and expect a fulsome discussion on the benefits and limitations of this controversial hypothesis.
LOCATION
W2 Media Cafe
111 W Hastings, Vancouver, BC
DATE AND TIME
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Doors at 5:30 PM
Starts at 6:00 PM
Wraps at 7:30 PM
Jason Mogus is the principal strategist of Communicopia, a Gastown based firm that has been leading transformative digital projects for social change institutions since 1993. Jason has worked with some highly successful network orgs, including the TckTckTck climate coalition, Nothing But Nets campaign, and Web of Change, as well as for many large NGO’s, governments, and sustainable businesses both locally and globally. For a full bio: http://communicopia.com/company/jason-mogus
Suggested background reading:
Could you do more with Google Analytics? Non-profit website publisher Jeannine Mitchell shows how she got a new perspective on raw data from the Google Analytics module installed on her (Drupal CMS) website after local web analytics expert Behdad showed her how to create custom measurements known as ‘segmentation’. Behdad will be present to field people’s questions about web analytics.
When
Tuesday, January 10 2012
DOORS AT 5:30 PM
EVENT STARTS AT 6:00 PM
WRAP AT 7:30 PM
Where
W2 Media Cafe
Admission
Free, with $5 suggested donation.
Presenters
Jeannine Mitchell, an award-winning finance writer, heads the non-profit Student Finance 101 Society, helping students manage student loans and other debt at www.debt101.caBehdad Barati
A well rounded IT expert, Behdad has been involved in Web Analytics for close to four years.
Behdad is also the organizer of the Web Analytics Champs meetup. http://www.meetup.com/Web-Analytics-Champs-WACH/OUR SPONSOR
Net Tuesday is thrilled to have the W2 Media Cafe as our venue sponsor for the 2011-12 season.
They do cool things. Check them out!
When: Wednesday, November 16. 5:30 – 7:30 pm
Where: The HiVE. 210 – 128 W Hastings St
Processing donations and payments is a pain.
First you need to enter the credit card into into a Point Of Sale machine (if you have even have one), then you need to record that payment on the individual or organization’s record (if you’ve got a database). There’s a lot of hardware, paper and potential for error.
IATS Brickwork might be a solution for you. It removes the hardware and automatically adds donations to your Salesforce Contacts because you enter the credit card info directly into Salesforce. Come check out the demo. Make them hard questions!
What is IATS?
A credit card processing company that specialized in serving nonprofits. They have a website.
What is Brickwork?
Check it out on the Salesforce App Exchange.
Here’s what IATS says:
Process both one-time and recurring credit card or ACH transactions from within any Salesforce CRM edition. All credit card types are accepted for both US and Canadian transactions. Let BRICKWORK by IATS Payments help your organization today!
Integrates seamlessly into the Nonprofit Starter Pack and all Salesforce CRM Editions.
Give your donors the choice of making single or recurring gift donations with their Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover cards in US or Canadian dollars.
Create seamless, online donation pages with the integrated IATS product, AURA.
BRICKWORK is a FREE native Salesforce Application that brings the power of IATS Payments processing directly to your Salesforce environment. Whether donations come over the phone or through your website, BRICKWORK enables your organization to process credit card payments and maximize revenue.
Integrated into the Nonprofit Starter Pack and all Salesforce CRM editions, BRICKWORK eliminates the hassle of manual data entry by automating the payment information and record creation. Real-time processing allows for greater workload efficiency and instantaneous results. With the ability to create donation pages directly from the AURA custom tab, taking your fundraising efforts online has never been easier.
As a Level 1 Payment Card Industry (PCI) certified company, IATS ensures all transactions are handled with absolute security and confidentiality.
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P.S. We’ll supply snacks!
Please join me at the first gathering of the Vancouver Nonprofit Salesforce User Group.
RSVP http://salesforcevancouver.eventbrite.com
This group is for anyone at any level using Salesforce in the nonprofit, education or social entrepreneur sectors.
Or even for those are aren’t using it yet, but are merely curious. We’ll be talking about CRM (customer relationship management) issues in general too.
This is your meetup, so the first meeting will be an informal discussion that will allow us to figure out the needs of the nonprofit community and determine what you want from a Salesforce meetup.
And while you’re waiting for the meetup to start why not apply for the Salesforce Foundation software grant?
We encourage neophytes to seasoned developers to share information with the larger community.
What’s working for you? What’s a struggle? What would you want to get out of a Salesforce meetup?
P.S. We’ll supply snacks courtesy of the Salesforce Foundation. (yay!)
RSVP http://salesforcevancouver.eventbrite.com/
DATE AND TIME:
Thursday, September 29, 2011 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
LOCATION:
The HiVE
210 – 128 W Hastings St
Elijah van der Giessen 