2010

There were 91 posts published in 2010 (this is page 5 of 10).

Fumbling with Salesforce for Nonprofits

Well, some people seem to speak highly of it. But it seems to require a highly trained staff – or at least a staff who are competent with software systems. So I’m wondering if I get into it, will anyone else in our small organization follow me into that territory? And, although I never thought of our organization as being much different from others, I see that it does not so easily fit the mold of Salesforce. Would it be better to adopt a simpler or more flexible solution? It’s still hard to say.

May 24 – 11:30 made some progress – understood how to link Opportunities to Products. phew.

Journal 2010-05-22

Spent some time fiddling with social networking software like TweetDeck. None of the existing arrangements make me completely happy. I have a feeling that the best system for updating status is not so much a continual interaction with the web bit a once a day digest of significant thoughts or learning from that day, condensed from a logging of these – which could be kept in the phone or computer in draft form till later.

Umm Burj on Nakba Day

Just a car ride into oblivion
At the end of asphalt roads.

To a park whose signs demark
A history too crowded for meagre lives

They built their homes among ruins.
We walk among their graves.

The last of them are buried elsewhere
Their story almost silent now.

We briefly populate the hilltop,
With our talk and picture taking.

These thornfields once were gardens
Kept by water from the well.

The hilltop bloodied now
In sunset rust,

The only green is found in niches
Hewn deep into the earth

Where broad-leaved fig trees
Dream a shady coolness
Safe again for children’s song.

Twine and the ephemeral nature of web services

Twine – another web service that I used for a while – has been closed by its purchaser, Evri. Web-services are fine to use, as long as we don’t become dependent on them. Meanwhile, Sarah Perez says on Buzz that her husband’s gmail account was disabled suddenly without warning. “Wow, had no idea this could even happen. Google just disabled my husband’s Gmail account. No idea why. Maybe it was hacked? Used to send spam? Too bad he just put it on all his business cards. I guess this is what you get for using a free service.”