Looking forward to seeign everyone at the May/June Meeting

Agenda:

• Comparison of Convio’s Common Ground to the Salesforce.com nonprofit starter pack   
• User Showcase: New York Nonprofit Coordinating Committee  

Location:
Resources for Children with Special Needs

116 East 16th Street, 5th Floor

Union Square, closest subway: N,Q,R,W,L,4,5,6, two blocks east of the 1,2,3, one block east of PATH

Stay tuned for details of the next meeting.

I am personally very excited about our next User Group meeting- many of you have been asking about Facebook as well.

We will be having a panel that shows how some of our group members are using Facebook, followed by a discussion with Clara Shih, author of the the upcoming book, The Facebook Era. This will be a great opportunity to learn what works on Facebook, and what issues people are having. We have to start early, but it will be worth it.

We need to have a confirmed count in advance, so please RSVP 72 hours in advance.

Facebook for Nonprofits

Monday March 23, 8-9AM PDE (pretty darn early)

Sheraton Hotel and Towers

Room: New York Ballroom East

811 7th Ave

New York, NY 10019

212-581-1000

Speakers

Clara Shih, author of The Facebook Era

Michelle Chaplin, Brac USA

Abraham Fallon, Broadway Housing Communities

Emily Socolov, Mano a Mano

Craig Weinrich, Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York

This event takes place before Cloudforce. You do not need to attend (or register for) Cloudforce to attend.

Please note that there will be no meeting April 2, 2009.

At the request of some of our members, our March meeting is in the afternoon:

Wednesday March 4th 4-6pm

NOTE: this is not our usual day/time

Location:
Resources for Children with Special Needs

116 East 16th Street, 5th Floor

Union Square, closest subway: N,Q,R,W,L,4,5,6, two blocks east of the 1,2,3, one block east of PATH

Please RSVP to be on the list for security to: Lisa (at) TheSolidFoundation (dot) org

Webinar Info
Please log in early to download ILinc
Webinar: https://sfug.ilinc.com/join/ybskrcv
Conference Dial-in Number: (712) 432-0080
Access Code: 852433#

Agenda

• 4-5 New features of Spring '09- presented by Jim Prothe from Model Metrics
• 5-6 User Showcase: Chicago Housing Authority will present their Salesforce application, joining us will be:

Email: jprothe@modelmetrics.com
www.modelmetrics.com

Drinks afterward at Irving Mill, located in the same building: 116 E 16th St - I'm told it has a good wine and beer and cocktail list, and bar snacks, and it's right downstairs. 212-254-1600

This information is unconfirmed, so pencil it in:
3/4 4-6pm

• User Showcase: Chicago Housing Authority- co-presented by Model Metrics, who build the App
• New features of Spring '09- presented by Model Metrics 
• Location TBD. Let me know if you can help.

3/24 8:30-11am Social Marketing

Many thanks to Mark for giving us a demo of Demand Tools at our meeting last week!

Contact Info:
Mark Esdale
VP Business Development
406-907-9749
Mark.esdale@crmfusion.com
www.crmfusion.com

More Info:

AppExchange Link: http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/detail_overv...

DemandTools is a high performance suite of tools for AppExchange data manipulation, ETL, deduplication and duplicate prevention. Compatible with all AppExchange data it is used by more than 1000 administrators in 15 countries.

DemandTools is an AppExchange enabled 32bit .NET Windows smart client application that your administration team install on their desktop or laptop computers. Installation takes less than 15 minutes and immediately extends the administrators control of AppExchange data (including custom objects and applications) by adding:

- A five way, 100% flexible deduplicator capable of deduping and merging any salesforce.com table even in batch
- Multi-table dedupers for Lead to Contact or Lead to Account
- High end ETL / Import modules that support XLS,MDB,UDL (SQL/Oracle etc) data sources and UTF-8 loading.
- Mass AppExchange data manipulation capabilities without requiring import/export.
- World class address verification and enrichment without the need to import or export your data. Available for as little as 1 cent per transaction.
- The DemandTools Discovery modules are three modules that allow you to compare an external data source (spreadsheet/database) to your Lead or Contact or Account table. When they are found DemandTools will return the object ID and more.

Used by over 1000 administrators in 15 countries, DemandTools is the leading data quality toolset for salesforce.

Nonprofit Specific Details

Non-profit customers can obtain Demandtools by just downloading from their website, which is http://crmfusion.com/demandtools/index.php. Demandtools is free for non-profits. If there are any non-profits have questions, email Kevin Ely at kevin.ely@crmfusion.com, who handles all non-profit questions.

Partner: CRMfusion

ILinc is a tool for conducting video Webinars, Meeting, Support or Learning. Thanks to ILinc for presenting at the last User Group meeting and for donating your product to the Salesforce.com User Groups! Members of the group saw a lot of potential for how to use the product.

Click here for a free demo of ILinc

For more information, contact:

Barry Duncan

Account Manager | National Sales | iLinc

2999 N. 44th Street, Suite 650 | Phoenix, AZ 85018

O: 602-718-1592 | F: 602-952-0544 | M: 602.358.5476

bduncan@ilinc.com | ilinc.com | Linked in

Also, ILinc is hosting a free Webinar that I thought looked interesting:

Marketing Sideways
to Succeed at Social Media

Join iLinc on February 17th for a live webinar revealing the secrets of leveraging social media to increase your business' presence and grow your brand.

The webinar will feature digital marketing expert and social media consultant Jason Baer.

During the webinar, you will learn:

• Why today's marketer shouldn't follow conventional wisdom
• What social media can do for your brand
• How to build a successful-and focused-social media campaign

Click here to register

Thank you to Rich Resnick for providing a demo of the Relationship Visualization product built by Business Endurance and of your donation of this product to the nonprofit community.

This product allows you to create a visual network maps, so you can see relationships between people and organizations, to keep track of which Board member knows someone who knows Bill Cosby or what other boards their spouse serves on. This is a great tool that will be very helpful to nonprofits. Thanks Rich!

Download VRM Installation.

Brainshark, a “Power of Us” partner and leading AppExchange solution
provider, launched a quarterly grant program for eligible non-
profits!  The next deadline for grant applications is FEBRUARY 20,
2009.   Who or what is Brainshark? We provide a very simple to use
software-as-a-service solution that enables people to create, manage,
share and track voice-enriched on-demand presentations that others can
view over the web at their convenience.  Hundreds of organizations use
Brainshark to improve the effectiveness of their communications,
improve marketing and outreach, generate more sales or funding, and
train more efficiently. You can visit our AppExchange listing (http://
www.salesforce.com/appexchange/detail_overview.jsp?NavCode__c=&id=a0330000005ljqvAAA)
to learn more. And for the specific information about the grant
program, please visit the Brainshark for Non-Profits web page:
http://presentation.brainshark.com/solutions/non-profit.

http://www.salesforcefoundation.org/node/1891