Hi everyone,

Many apologies for not having a June meeting - a bunch of deadlines and a 2 week vacation prevented me from organizing a meeting.  

July Meeting Info:

When: Wednesday, July 22nd, 4:30-6:30 PM (NOTE NEW TIME AND LOCATION this month)
Where:

Root Cause
675 Massachusetts Ave, 9th floor

Cambridge, MA 02139

Google Maps Link

Directions: Red Line to Central Square

Next Meeting Agenda:

1. User Showcase: Tibrine DaFonseca, Medical Legal Partnerships | Boston
2. FormAssembly Demo: Emily Silberstein, Root Cause
3. Plone/Salesforce Integration: Nate Aune, Jazkarta
4. Discussion Topics
5. Next Meeting date/time/location and user showcase volunteers

For you remote folks, I'll also be webcasting this meeting using ReadyTalk.  
The login info is:
Web info: http://www.readytalk.com/?ac=6491111
Phone info: (906) 481-2000 378728#
You'll need to enter your name and email address for ReadyTalk.  
To test your computer beforehand, go to http://test.readytalk.com/

Hope to see you all next week!  

Marc

P.S. Don't forget to join our Facebook Group here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=41903557678
Hope to see you all next week!

Hi everyone,

First, I am so sorry for sending this out so late!  Life is just a little too crazy these days!  I am still working on finalizing the agenda, but we definitely will have Steve Andersen from the Salesforce Foundation via webinar.

April Meeting Info:

When: Wednesday, May 20 from 8:30 – 11:00 AM
Where: The Nonprofit Center, 89 South St., 1st floor, Boston, MA 02111 Bring ID please
Directions: Red Line to Downtown Crossing or South Station

Next Meeting Agenda:

1. User Showcase: TBD PLEASE CONTACT ME IF YOU CAN DO THIS! :)
   
2. FormAssembly Demo: Marc Baizman, Root Cause
3. Discussion Topics
   
4. Nonprofit Starter Pack Demo - Steve Anderson, Salesforce.com Foundation
   
5. Next Meeting date/time/location and user showcase volunteers

For you remote folks, the Nonprofit Starter Pack demo will also be webcast.  Let me know if you'd like to participate remotely and I'll send you the meeting details.

Come join our new Facebook Group at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=41903557678!

ALSO, the "regular" Boston User Group is meeting at the end of May!  Here are the details for THAT meeting, if you'd like to attend:

When: Tuesday, May 26th
What Time: 8:00 - 11:00am
Where: DoubleTree Waltham
550 Winter St., Waltham, MA, 02451

Hope to see you all next week!

If you are planning on going to the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Francisco, you should definitely go to this event!

The Salesforce.com team focusing on nonprofit success is excited to be participating in the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Francisco, April 26 - 28th. 

While the conference has sold out, the free Science Fair provides a great opportunity to see some of the latest and greatest solutions available to nonprofits. Salesforce.com Foundation staff be there in full force showcasing some of the most powerful features and uses of the force.com platform. It would be great to connect! 

Nonprofit Technology Conference Science Fair
San Francisco Hilton, 333 O'Farrell Street 
Sunday April 26th from 3 - 8 pm

Hope to see you there!

Meghan Nesbit
Senior Manager of Alliances and Product Donations
mnesbit@salesforce.com
www.salesforcefoundation.org

Hi everyone,

We had a great April 1st meeting with some excellent presentations by user group members Kathryn Tirjan, Brianna Whitney, and Will Scarbrough and also by Elias Terman from Acteva. Here are the user group presentations in PDF form:

• Download Kathryn's Presentation
• Download Brianna's Presentation
• Download Will's Presentation
• Download Will's Example Data files

We also discussed several AppExchange Applications, and I've provided those links below as well:

• Pervasive Quickbooks Sync - QB to SF
• Informatica Data Integration - free for nonprofits!
• Conference Manager - free for everyone
• FormAssembly - web forms that go into SF
• Conga Merge - mail merge
• ExactTarget - another mass-email solution, unsure of cost

As promised, Elias's contact information is below:

Elias Terman  |  Acteva
Director, Product & Strategic Marketing
direct (415) 962-9047  |  fax (415) 358-4459
email eterman@Acteva.com
http://www.actevarsvp.com/price.html

We also have 2 extras this month:

• A job posting from Pete Capraro at BELL: Technical Business Analyst (SaaS-SalesForce)
• Office for rent at the Nonprofit Center where we meet every month!  Office for Rent Flyer

That's everything for this month!  Still confirming the date and location for our May meeting.  I will send that out ASAP.  See you all in warm and sunny (hopefully) May!

Marc

Hi everyone,

I know it's been a while and I'm looking forward to seeing you all again!  We'll have 2 user showcases this month, which is great!

April Meeting Info:

When: Wednesday, April 1 from 8:30 – 11:00 AM
Where: The Nonprofit Center, 89 South St., 1st floor, Boston, MA 02111 Bring ID please
Directions: Red Line to Downtown Crossing or South Station

Next Meeting Agenda:

1. User Showcase: Kathryn Tirjan, WGBH Teacher's Domain 8:30 - 9:00
2. User Showcase: Brianna Whitney, Brookline Arts Center 9:00 - 9:30
3. Vendor Demo: Elias Terman, ActevaRSVP 9:30 - 10:15
4. Discussion Topics 10-15:-10:30
5. Next Meeting date/time/location and user showcase volunteers
6. Networking  10:30 – 11:00a

Hi everyone,

One of our user group members is look for some assistance with their Salesforce implementation.  Here is their request:

"Craft Emergency Relief Fund (www.craftemergency.org) is a nonprofit based in Montpelier, VT that provides emergency relief assistance and emergency preparedness resources to craft artists nationwide.

We have been using the Enterprise edition of Salesforce for four years. A description of the customizations to our version can be found at http://cvnp.typepad.com/blog/2005/04/salesforce_as_n.html. We are considering moving to the nonprofit template, but first want to see it in use by an organization that is using its full functionality. We have done a bit of research on the subject and we have used the trial version, but we feel it would be very helpful to work with another organization for a bit before a final decision.

If you are in Vermont, maybe sitting down with a few of us for part of a day will be all we need. If a meeting is not workable, maybe a few virtual sessions over a couple of weeks would do it. Sometime in the next month or two would be ideal for us.

Please contact Les Snow at les@craftemergency.org if you're interested.  Thanks for considering this request."

Also, if you weren't already aware, next Thursday, 3/26 is the Salesforce "Cloudforce" event here in Boston.  Here is the direct link to register for the event: http://www.salesforce.com/events/customer/local-user-groups/70130000000EfENAA0.jsp  If that doesn't work, you can go the Salesforce Events page and look for Boston: http://www.salesforce.com/events/

I'll be there for at least part of the day.  There will be a Salesforce Foundation table and Birds of a Feather sessions over lunch.  Hope to see you there!

Marc

Everyone,

Sorry for the delay in getting these posted - I'm off to Hawaii at the end of the week :) and am trying to wrap up a bunch of things before I go.

Thanks go to Peter Hill for recording the minutes, to Susan Hiller Troen and Jaime Berton for presenting, and to Theresa deRycke from CRMFusion for the great DemandTools demo.

Download 1-21-09 Minutes

Download Year Up Security Presentation

Download Center for Legal Aid Education Presentation 

Also, I wanted to let you know that the "regular" Boston Salesforce User Group is having a meeting soon, and you should all go!  Here is the info for that meeting:

http://usergroups.salesforce.com/boston/2009/02/next-meeting-february-25-2009.html

Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Time: 8:30 AM.  Networking before

Location:  ZoomInfo Offices -- 307 Waverley Oaks Road, 4th floor, Waltham, MA 02452

Have a great rest of February, and stay warm!  Mahalo!

Hi everyone!

Hope you had a great holiday and New Year break, and that coming back to work hasn't been too stressful!
I wanted to let you all know that I have created a new Facebook group for us!

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=41903557678

Right now I'm approving all memberships in the Facebook group to make sure that people are also members of the "real life" user group.  :)  If you're on Facebook, please join us!

Marc

Everyone,

Apologies for the delay in getting these posted - the end-of-year craziness at the office has been fun.
Thanks go to Steven Backman for recording the minutes, to Kimberly Hunt for coming to visit us from NYC, and to Jaime Berton for handling the space, as usual.

Link to the 12/10 Minutes

Link to Samantha Fernandez's presentation about Dreamforce

Link to all the nonprofit sessions at Dreamforce - select "Industry" and scroll to the bottom.

Marc's presentation at Dreamforce - I talk about 2/3 of the way in.

January Meeting Info (NOTE NEW DATE):

When: Wednesday, January 21 from 8:30 – 11:00 AM
Where: The Nonprofit Center, 89 South St., 1st floor, Boston, MA 02111 Bring ID please
Directions: Red Line to Downtown Crossing or South Station

Next Meeting Agenda:

1. User Showcase: Jaime Berton, Center for Legal Aid Education 8:30 - 9:00
2. Security Do's and Don'ts: Susan Hiller-Troen, YearUp 9:00 - 9:30
3. DemandTools Demo: Marc Baizman/Mark Esdale? 9:30 - 10:15
4. Discussion Topics 10-15:-10:30
5. Next Meeting date/time/location and user showcase volunteers
6. Networking  10:30 – 11:00a

Everyone, have very Happy Holidays and great New Year!  See you in 2009!

Everyone,

I'm still recovering from the amazing time I had at Dreamforce and I hope that we'll have a great discussion at our next meeting about some of the things I and others found at this year's Dreamforce!  We will also have Kimberly Hunt from the Salesforce Foundation coming to speak with us about the Foundation.

Here's the info for our next meeting:

When: Wednesday, December 10 from 8:30 – 11:00 AM
Where: The Nonprofit Center, 89 South St., 1st floor, Boston, MA 02111 Bring ID please
Directions: Red Line to Downtown Crossing or South Station

Next Meeting Agenda:

1. Intro to the Salesforce.com Foundation - Kimberly Hunt 8:30 - 9:00am
2. Integrating your Drupal-based website with Salesforce - Ben DiMaggio, Digital Loom 9:00-9:45
3. Connect with the Community Presentation (short!) - Marc Baizman 9:45-10:00
4. Dreamforce Take-aways: Marc Baizman, Samantha Fernandez, others 10:00 -  10:30
5. Next Meeting date/time/location and user showcase volunteers
6. Networking  10:30 – 11:00a