With this week’s issue, the PUB Crawl marks 100 straight editions! Whether travel or holiday or rain or sleet or dark of night, for 100 consecutive weeks without fail, the PUB Crawl has delivered its friendly, informative weekly digest of the best of the Power of Us Hub to the inboxes of busy people wanting to stay in the nonprofit Salesforce know.
To honor this century mark, we’ve combed our email archives to deliver the following top 25 posts shared over the course of those 100 weeks. Enjoy the walk down memory lane!
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- Salesforce TLS 1.0 Disablement Webinar - January 24 @ 10am ET
Alicia Schmidt (Salesforce.org)
Best of Power of Us Hub - 068, January 23, 2017If you are feeling a little more than dazed and confused about TLS 1.0 Disablement, tune into the Salesforce webinar on Tuesday January 24th! The Salesforce team is looking to help you prepare for the new changes!
- Lessons learned from my first full Lightning deployment
April Harris (Idealist Consulting)
Best of Power of Us Hub - 086, May 29, 2017Okay, it's a strong headline, but April has gone through a full Lightning implementation and shared all the speed bumps she hit along the way. Strap on your seat belts!
- TrainheadDX Lightning Experience Roadmap
Michael Kolodner (Spark Program)
Best of Power of Us Hub - 092, July 10, 2017Terry said it better than I could after watching this video: "You can only effectively hit the like button once, but I did it 7 times just to feel better." Stop what you're doing, watch this Lightning UX video, and give feedback.
- Do you keep your program data separate from your donor info?
Elizabeth Most (Dream Catchers)
Best of Power of Us Hub - 072, February 20, 2017Does donor and program data go together like peanut butter and jelly, or oil and water? Read on!
- 67 New Reports and 4 New Dashboards in the Nonprofit Success Pack
Tim Forbes (Soapbox Engage)
Best of Power of Us Hub - 074, March 6, 2017A dizzying array of reports and dashboards were added to the NPSP last week, made with tons of community love and contributions. Now, if only you had a compiled list of all the new additions...oh wait.. you do! Discover all the new dashboards and reports.
- Best multi-select picklist alternative?
Rachel Park (Independent Consultant)
Best of Power of Us Hub - 082, May 1, 2017The blessing and curse of picklists are at it again. Here's a rundown of your options to bringing some sanity back to your data.
- How the h#$% are addresses supposed to work in NPSP?
Michael Kolodner (Spark Program)
Best of Power of Us Hub - 059, November 21, 2016If Contact and Household address models leave you with headaches, here's your medicine. Less frustration, more happiness.
- Page Layouts vs. Lightning Record Pages
Sheryl Johnson (Richmond Hill, Inc.)
Best of Power of Us Hub - 080, April 17, 2017Lightning pages, page layouts, components, S-Controls (I just threw that in to see if you were paying attention). When should you use these?
- Training guide for the part-time admin
Paul Collier (ProInspire)
Best of Power of Us Hub - 075, March 13, 2017Have you ever closed your eyes when learning something new and said to yourself, "I wish that someone would just tell me, clearly, the first steps I need to think about in using this darn tool." Great. Close your eyes, Salesforce admin newbies!
- An efficient approach to continuous documentation
Brad Struss (Bigger Boat Consulting)
Best of Power of Us Hub - 078, April 3, 2017Do you feel like you're treading water trying to keep up with documentation writing? Read on for a few tips and tricks to keep your head above water.
- Summer 16 Is Coming Soon!
Gorav Seth (Ashoka)
Best of Power of Us Hub - 030, May 2, 2016I'm not even going to try to steal Gorav's thunder on this one. Click to read all the highlights of the awesome new toys coming in Summer 16 release!
- Salesforce Toolkit?
Sara Hubner (New England Yearly Meeting)
Best of Power of Us Hub - 078, April 3, 2017One set of tools to help with a ton of your Salesforce data needs? It's true. Enjoy!
- Campaign structure best practices?
Norm Copeland (Ethos Canada)
Best of Power of Us Hub - 093, July 17, 2017Events are a perfect use case for leveraging Campaigns. But with the event's invitations, registrations, welcome emails, reminders, etc all created as Campaigns, how can we make the most sense of it all?
- Using Engagement Plans for Major Donor Management
Jackson Rose (Salesforce.org)
Best of Power of Us Hub - 078, April 3, 2017Looking for a game plan to use Engagement Plans for your major donors? Here you go!
- Salesforce Id Clipper Chrome Extension
Steve Andersen (Exponent Partners)
Best of Power of Us Hub - 081, April 24, 2017After crowds of adoring fans pleaded for this handy Chrome extension to support Lightning, the humble human behind the "gokubi" username has provided the magic. Welcome to a faster world of copy/paste, amigos!
- Lightning Experience Roadmap
Nils Koop (Salesforce.org)
Best of Power of Us Hub - 061, December 5, 2016If you're holding back from adopting Lightning in your Salesforce org because of that one missing bit of magic that isn't ready, here's your timeline to future happiness.
- What are the risks of using the household account model, but adding contacts directly to organization accounts?
Amy Crumbliss (The Columbia Heights Initiative)
Best of Power of Us Hub - 087, June 5, 2017I don't think I'm ever going to let this type of question miss a PUB Crawl edition. Thinking about the right Account model for a mixed use organization is pretty darn important. Here's another shot at providing some best practices.
- Spring '17 Release Favorites for Nonprofits
Kerry Vineberg (Exponent Partners)
Best of Power of Us Hub - 074, March 6, 2017While the Spring’17 release still doesn't have the "Make Burrito" button available (I think it's still stuck in Javascript), there's a ton of new features available. Take a look at some of the most useful items for our non-profit community.
- Nonprofit Success Pack will soon default to the Lightning Experience starting November 9
Mary Pustejovsky (Salesforce.org)
Best of Power of Us Hub - 056, October 31, 2016 - Are Notes & Attachments really going away?
Christine Yockel (KidsVoice)
Best of Power of Us Hub - 086, May 29, 2017Are Notes and Attachments objects about to disappear from your Salesforce org, taking with it years of note-taking knowledge?
- The relationship building between Salesforce, non-profits, and implementation partners
Tracy Kronzak (Salesforce.org)
Best of Power of Us Hub - 069, January 30, 2017It's a bummer when you miss out on a great presentation about creating a healthy relationship between Salesforce, non-profits, and implementation partners. Thankfully, you don't have to trek through a snow storm in Tahoe now to see Tracy Kronzak's presentation!
- You're Not a Special Snowflake: 5 Reasons Why You Should Really Be Using Standard Objects
Tal Frankfurt (Cloud for Good)
Best of Power of Us Hub - 060, November 28, 2016Using standard objects is near and dear to our Soapbox Engage hearts (see: pretty much anything we've ever made). Tal found a gold nugget of knowledge with Jon Aniano's great blog post.
- Best practice for tracking various mailing groups
Michelle Miller (Eagle's Nest Foundation)
Best of Power of Us Hub - 075, March 13, 2017So many mailing groups, so little time! The best practices to handle mailing groups can be endless. In a world where you can technically create 400 checkboxes on an object, what's the approach for recording Contact segmentation data?
- Email Lists Best Practices
Etta Einschlag (Ample Harvest)
Best of Power of Us Hub - 047, August 29, 2016There's a seemingly infinite number of ways to track interests, mailing list subscriptions, and the like...but is there one way "best" way to organize Contact preferences?
- From Nonprofit Starter Pack to Nonprofit Success Pack
Dirk Norris (New Mexico Film Foundation)
Best of Power of Us Hub - 053, October 10, 2016Is the move from the Nonprofit Starter Pack to the Nonprofit Success Pack an "upgrade", a "migration", or a "teleportation to a different world where all your fundraising dreams come true"? What about "none of the above"?
It's time for the new kids to learn to swim in the new swimming pool! Learn more about the big change about to come to new NPSP users starting November 9.
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