Category Archives: nptech

Happy New Year and looking forward to an amazing 2013!

Happy New Year from everyone at appiChar! Followers of this blog may (hopefully!) have noticed it’s been a bit quiet the last few months…for good reason! We’ve been super-busy putting every ounce of energy into bringing supporter360 up as many … Continue reading

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Common Grounded…Gone-vio…de-Luminated…I’m sure I could go on :)

For anyone interested in the world of fundraising and the Salesforce platform last week was pretty interesting (or if you’ve just invested a stack of money in Common Ground or Luminate, pretty horrifying). Blackbaud took the decision to ‘retire’ Common … Continue reading

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#CU12 follow-up: Salesforce privacy question

A question was asked yesterday at my presentation about Salesforce and privacy of the data in Australia. Richard from the US pointed out some facts that turned out to be incorrect – I’ve spoken with Salesforce themselves and here’s the … Continue reading

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Take-Aways from #CU12

I did this last year so I think it will have to be a tradition now! Really enjoyed Connecting Up Australia 12, some great conversations and a fantastic international line-up. Was good to catch up with Terry Stokes from LASA, … Continue reading

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Fundraising with Salesforce

When we first started working with Salesforce one of the biggest problems we had was finding reference sites who were fundraising. Plenty of NFPs were using Salesforce but not many were fundraising it seemed. A lot’s changed since those days … Continue reading

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Latest supporter360 news..

The blog and every other form of communication has been pretty quiet the last couple of months here at appiChar Central. Since we really started to push things along after Christmas the world of supporter360 has moved along massively. Where … Continue reading

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supporter360 Membership, Gift Aid & More This Week

The appiChar team has been on a great mission this week completing the roll out of the very first supporter360 customers culminating in 2 customers live and another about to follow. The great thing with the first 3 implementations is … Continue reading

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Some great news from Salesforce, analytics features now to be free*

It was genuinely exciting to hear about the Salesforce Analytics features recently and then not-so-great to hear they were likely to cost $40 per user per month and EVERY user on the system would need a license. This has been … Continue reading

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Convio being investigated: spanner in the works for #ConBeard merger?

Just stumbled across this, looks like there are even more reasons for customers of Blackbaud and Convio to be unsure of what the future holds…hope it doesn’t drag on for too long. http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120118006745/en

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Not everyone happy with the Blackbaud & Convio (#ConBeard) marriage…

Just catching up with some of the gossip around the purchase by Blackbaud of Convio (let’s call them ConBeard for ease…if you’re not sure where the ‘beard’ comes from the answer’s in here!). Found this great response fromĀ Allen Gunn, founder … Continue reading

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