As we spoke about at our last meeting the format and cost of training for nonprofits has changed. It became public yesterday and I thought you would all like to have an update. Today I received the following from Salesforce:

North America - Nonprofit Training Policy

• All courses held in North America are offered at a 50% discount off the list price to nonprofits and partners exclusively serving nonprofit clients
• See the company site for the current list price as well as the schedule for each course
• Three seats will be given priority advanced confirmation per class
• After registration someone will contact you to schedule you for the first available class of your choice
• This offer is available only to nonprofit organizations receiving donated or discounted licenses and partners with an exclusive nonprofit client base
• Verification of your organization's nonprofit status or nonprofit exclusive partner will occur upon registration
• This policy does not apply to classes held in EMEA & APAC. EMEA/APAC should continue to register on the company website and enter the promotion code "nonprofit"
• Frequently Asked Questions: FAQ
• PLEASE NOTE: There is currently a 12 - 16 week waiting list for seats available to nonprofits at the 50% discount in popular cities including New York, Boston, and Washington D.C. In order to bypass the waiting list, you may register for the course at a 20% discount. Use the same registration below and notify the salesforce.com representative that contacts you that you that you are interested in the first available seat at the 20% nonprofit discount.
• Click here to register

PLEASE NOTE: There is currently a 12 - 16 week waiting list for seats available to nonprofits at the 50% discount in popular cities including New York, Boston, and Washington D.C. In order to bypass the waiting list, you may register for the course at a 20% discount. Use the same registration below and notify the salesforce.com representative that contacts you that you that you are interested in the first available seat at the 20% nonprofit discount.

Here is a listing of upcoming Administrator and Developer courses

ADM-201 - Dec 02 2008 - Washington, DC
ADM-301 - Dec 08 2008 - Boston, MA
ADM-201 - Dec 15 2008 - Philadelphia, PA
ADM-301 - Dec 15 2008 - New York, NY
ADM-201 - Jan 06 2009 - Baltimore, MD
ADM-201 - Jan 26 2009 - Philadelphia, PA
ADM-301 - Jan 26 2009 - New York, NY
DEV-501 - Jan 26 2009 - New York, NY
ADM-201 - Feb 02 2009 - New York, NY
ADM-201 - Feb 17 2009 - Washington, DC
ADM-201 - Feb 17 2009 - Washington, DC
DEV-401 - Feb 23 2009 - New York, NY
ADM-201 - Mar 02 2009 - New York, NY
ADM-201 - Mar 02 2009 - Baltimore, MD
ADM-201 - Mar 16 2009 - Washington, DC
ADM-201 - Mar 16 2009 - New York, NY
DEV-501 - Mar 16 2009 - New York, NY
ADM-301 - Mar 23 2009 - Reston, VA
ADM-301 - Mar 23 2009 - Philadelphia, PA
ADM-201 - Mar 30 2009 - New York, NY

We had a small but extremely productive meeting.

The meeting was held at NPower and a vocal core attended. Thanks to all that could make it and to those that could not, we hope you can attend the next meeting.

In fact upcoming meetings were the first order of business. We have tentatively set meetings for the following:

·         December 10th - the Success tour is in town and we will link with that in some way (Time TBD) see information on the right

·         January 21th - Tentatively set for the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance (9:00 – 11:00)

·         February 18th - Tentatively set for the reinvestment fund. (9:00 – 11:00)

Next we talked about Salesforce certification and training. There will be additional information on training coming from Salesforce in the near future so keep your eyes open for that. Additional information on nonprofit training can be found at: http://www.salesforcefoundation.org/trainingpolicy.

Or for more info on certification go to: http://www.salesforce.com/community/crm-best-practices/resource-training.jsp.

Next the four of the meeting attendees that also went to Dreamforce all spoke on their takeaways and the new technology that was introduced. If you can get to Dreamforce you won’t be sorry you went. Save the date November 18-20 2009! If you would like to see what you missed go to : http://www.salesforce.com/community/crm-best-practices/resource-training.jsp to see video of the keynote speeches and breakout sessions.

The next order of business was a review of new features in Winter 09:

Highlights are

Scheduled emailing of reports

Event creation updates and drag and drop

Ideas

And some cool new stuff regarding cases and campaigns

Follow the link for more info.

http://www.salesforce.com/community/winter09_home.jsp

Again, thanks to those that attended, and to the rest I hope to see you at the success tour.

To join the user group and get on the mailing list

The nonprofit resources page

Thanks,

Dean

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