Issue 396

Happy Monday, Trailblazers! In DC, we had a weekend of gorgeous, balmy weather, and I’m feeling refreshed and energized for a new week. Wishing you all the same!

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Issue 395

Happy Monday, Trailblazers! Congratulations, you made it to May!

In case you missed the announcement, the Salesforce Social Team has announced a consolidation of all Salesforce.org social channels— meaning an end to the nonprofit/education specific channels. More on that announcement below!

I wanted to take a moment to encourage folks to follow @picnet on Twitter and Soapbox Engage on LinkedIn. In addition to curating the PUB Crawl, we like to stay on top of all things Salesforce and #nptech and share important updates/helpful resources on our social channels. You can even follow hashtags like #PUBCrawlNewsletter and #SalesforceNonprofit on Twitter to get notifications for topical posts!

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Well, that was a pretty action packed end to last week. Within about 24 hours, I worked my way through some breaking community news, including an engaging Ask Me Anything session with the Salesforce SVP for Nonprofit Cloud, and the departure of Kevin Bromer from Salesforce.

I'm still slightly exhausted, but not tired enough to go through the photo albums to find some classic Kevin photos. The photo below isn't the common way I'd expect to see Kevin, but it's an awesome "Hey, check it out, I get to do the 'What's working?' part of an NPSP Day!"

Without getting too sappy, I'll say that Kevin has been one of the most vocal, boldest, and biggest supporters of the NPSP and open source community that I've had a chance to work with in the Salesforce ecosystem. It was an honor nerding out with him during the creation of the early NPSP community governance plans, at the early sprints I organized, and amongst new users of Salesforce. His parting words below sum up nearly a decade of work, and shine a light in the right direction moving forward.

This week, I'd recommend you make it a double of whatever you're drinking, because there's a ton of important content to go through. Cozy up, silence your phone, and get ready to dive into the deep-end of knowledge and feedback this week.

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Spring is finally here in the Mid-Atlantic, which gave me a chance to get in a relaxing weekend in Savannah before the whirlwind of May arrives. For those of you in Seattle, I'll be visiting twice this month, hanging out with the community of do-gooders at NPSP Day Seattle and the Washington State Nonprofits Conference. The Seattle NPSP Day just crossed 100 registered attendees, making it the largest ever!

Before I place a nice large coffee / burrito / salad order (affectionately known as the NPSP Day trifecta), let me first serve this week's round of knowledge here at the PUB Crawl.

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I'm generally aware that there's a world of entertainment that includes ice zombies and protectors of the universe. I'm just a bit too far out of the loop at this point to really keep up. My pop culture references will just have to continue to be lines from my favorite Seinfeld episodes.

So, for those of you who've watched all the blockbuster movies and television shows, please no spoiler alerts.

While I have this brief moment between episodes, quick, here's a round of knowledge from the Salesforce community!

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