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By: Melissa Hill-Dees, Founding Partner of HandsOn Connect Cloud Solutions In 2008, the Points of Light Foundation and the Salesforce Foundation conceived HandsOn Connect — a native Salesforce application designed specifically to make volunteering easier for employees and nonprofits — in a series of whiteboard sessions in San Francisco. The app was initially launched with … [Read more...] about Philanthropy Cloud Adds New Volunteer Management Capabilities for National Volunteer Week

For this episode of the Salesforce Admins Podcast, we want to pull back the curtain and explain our process for prepping Release Readiness Live. Join us as we talk about the questions we ask as we go through release notes, why it’s important to use different modes of communication to present key information, and how to find the throughline to tie it all together. You should … [Read more...] about How We Prepare for a Salesforce Release

Photo by Zac Durant on UnsplashDoron Sitbon, Founder and CEO of Dot Compliance, has first-hand experience of the highs and lows that the entrepreneurial journey entails. The Israeli founder has built a number of businesses and is well-versed in the process of starting from scratch and scaling an enterprise up.His current business — a quality management software platform for the … [Read more...] about Business Builders to Know: Doron Sitbon’s Journey to Success

By: Devi Thomas, VP of Marketing Communications at Salesforce.org and Amy Goddard, Manager of Marketing Communications at Salesforce.org Prior to the pandemic, podcasts kept many of us sane during our daily commutes. As social distancing left those of us non-banana bread bakers searching for entertainment, podcasts came to the rescue even more — with a 42% increase in listens … [Read more...] about How Nonprofits Can Use Clubhouse to Build Community & Deepen Engagement

Welcome to another post in the “How I Solved This” series. In this series, we do a deep dive into a specific business problem and share how one #AwesomeAdmin chose to solve it. Once you learn how they solved their specific problem, you’ll be inspired to try their solution yourself! Let’s take a look at how Samantha Shain was able to document all of the options for seeding … [Read more...] about How I Solved This: Populating Sandboxes with Flow