Comments on: SalesForce Dreams on at DreamForce http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/salesforce-dreams-on-at-dreamforce?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=salesforce-dreams-on-at-dreamforce Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:36:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Allan Benamer http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/salesforce-dreams-on-at-dreamforce/comment-page-1#comment-50011 Allan Benamer Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:28:45 +0000 http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/salesforce-dreams-on-at-dreamforce#comment-50011 Yeah, I think everyone is still looking for that Holy Grail of conversion from RE to salesforce.com. My guess is that it WILL happen but we haven't seen conversions yet simply because the churn rate for RE is small due to the large investments made for Raiser's Edge. To Blackbaud's credit, IT directors are looking at the current outlay and still deciding that the cost of switching even to a free product would hurt this year's budget. And of course, nonprofits are not well known for doing mult-year forecasts to properly assess ROI for new initiatives... And Jon, I just wanted to test putting only short summaries in the RSS feed for a week just to see what effect it would have. Y'all are so lazy and refuse to bring your eyeballs to the site. ;) By my estimation, there are roughly 150 readers a day who only read the RSS feed, if they all came to the site, it would almost double my traffic -- GRRR... How can I make you click on my Google ads??? Muwahahaha. BTW, I donate all my Google AdSense money to nonprofits. Yeah, I think everyone is still looking for that Holy Grail of conversion from RE to salesforce.com. My guess is that it WILL happen but we haven’t seen conversions yet simply because the churn rate for RE is small due to the large investments made for Raiser’s Edge. To Blackbaud’s credit, IT directors are looking at the current outlay and still deciding that the cost of switching even to a free product would hurt this year’s budget. And of course, nonprofits are not well known for doing mult-year forecasts to properly assess ROI for new initiatives…

And Jon, I just wanted to test putting only short summaries in the RSS feed for a week just to see what effect it would have. Y’all are so lazy and refuse to bring your eyeballs to the site. ;) By my estimation, there are roughly 150 readers a day who only read the RSS feed, if they all came to the site, it would almost double my traffic — GRRR… How can I make you click on my Google ads??? Muwahahaha. BTW, I donate all my Google AdSense money to nonprofits.

]]> By: Doug Yeager http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/salesforce-dreams-on-at-dreamforce/comment-page-1#comment-50003 Doug Yeager Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:12:44 +0000 http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/salesforce-dreams-on-at-dreamforce#comment-50003 roger that! :) roger that! :)

]]> By: Peter Gulka http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/salesforce-dreams-on-at-dreamforce/comment-page-1#comment-49998 Peter Gulka Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:56:07 +0000 http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/salesforce-dreams-on-at-dreamforce#comment-49998 Doug - I am not looking for a connection to RE. I am looking to talk to an org who has converted completely from Raiser's Edge to SalesForce Doug – I am not looking for a connection to RE. I am looking to talk to an org who has converted completely from Raiser’s Edge to SalesForce

]]> By: Doug Yeager http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/salesforce-dreams-on-at-dreamforce/comment-page-1#comment-49991 Doug Yeager Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:35:03 +0000 http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/salesforce-dreams-on-at-dreamforce#comment-49991 There were 350 nonprofits at the conference, and I didn't hear anyone talking about a RE connection. Granted, the vast majority of SF users are smaller organizations. From the Expo floor: there is a HUGE number of vendors doing data integration in the SF space. High quality, state of the art stuff. doug There were 350 nonprofits at the conference, and I didn’t hear anyone talking about a RE connection. Granted, the vast majority of SF users are smaller organizations.

From the Expo floor: there is a HUGE number of vendors doing data integration in the SF space. High quality, state of the art stuff.
doug

]]> By: Jon Stahl http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/salesforce-dreams-on-at-dreamforce/comment-page-1#comment-49990 Jon Stahl Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:33:53 +0000 http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/salesforce-dreams-on-at-dreamforce#comment-49990 Welcome, Doug! Allan: -1 for not putting full posts in the RSS feed. Please let us, your readers, choose how to consume your content. :-) Welcome, Doug!

Allan: -1 for not putting full posts in the RSS feed. Please let us, your readers, choose how to consume your content. :-)

]]> By: Peter Gulka http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/salesforce-dreams-on-at-dreamforce/comment-page-1#comment-49776 Peter Gulka Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:48:03 +0000 http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/salesforce-dreams-on-at-dreamforce#comment-49776 I am STILL waiting to hear of at least one org that has migrated from Raiser's Edge to SalesForce. I am STILL waiting to hear of at least one org that has migrated from Raiser’s Edge to SalesForce.

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