Salesforce offers new service for small businesses, non-profits included.

We've got another cool tool to share with you this week: Salesforce, probably the most popular CRM in the galaxy, has recently announced a new product - the Contact Manager Edition of its CRM.

This is a lighter-weight version of their CRM application that leaves out many of the frills... but comes at a much lower price at $9 a month per user. This is great news for non-profits who have been itching to use it but feared the steep cost.

It may be missing some of the bells and whistles, but it's still a pretty impressive way to manage your contacts. It will still integrate with your email - from Gmail to Outlook to Yahoo - and will track your emails and present them in preconfigured reports.

But what is really cool - especially for many PICnet clients - is that the Contact Manager Edition integrates with Google Apps automatically.  Docs, Calendar, Gmail, and more are intigrated into the new system, so there are no extra database integration steps needed when using these two systems together.

Step over to www.safesforce.com for more info. We hope this will be something useful for you!