In the first guest episode of the new season of The Technopath Way, Sarah and Michael Kolodner, a Salesforce MVP and advocate for tech in the nonprofit space, dive into the realities, complexities, and costs of Salesforce implementation for nonprofits. They take a critical look at the new nonprofit cloud and its implications in terms of pricing and functionality for users. Check out more of Michael's musings on his blog - Free Like a Puppy: https://www.freelikeapuppy.tech/ Learn about the Modern Classrooms Project: https://www.modernclassrooms.org/ Never miss an episode or recap again! Sign ..read more

Take Away Tips: The stories we tell ourselves about circumstances determine our emotional reactions and self-worth. Changing the stories is all about changing our mindset. One book Jackie recommended on mindset was "Mindset" by Carol Dweck, Ph.D. Figure out what you want -- this does not mean making a list of what you don't want! Overthinking can hinder progress, and it is important to break down goals into manageable steps and not get overwhelmed. Breaking down goals into easily achievable steps increases the likelihood of success and eliminates the pressure of overwhelming tasks. Learn m ..read more

Take Away Tips: • At a small nonprofit if you've been hired on as a developer, expect to do a little bit of everything from administration, to BA, to solution architecht + developer. • Nonprofits can run into the problem of developers, coding and then ghosting. If this happens to you -- take a step back from the code, map out what the system is doing, and document it. Then you can use a sandbox to turn off the code and see if you can manage the same thing declaratively. If you decide to alter the code in the sandbox and it works, great! Now document that too! • You do not need to even know ..read more

INFO Never miss an episode or recap again! Sign up for our weekly newsletter, The Technopath Way Tips here. Take Away Tips: Have micro-goals to accomplish a big goal Work hard, even if it is tough You can learn anything if you give it enough time It takes 10,000 hours to become a master at something, but only 20 to get a fairly good understanding on how to do something. Adriel's recording his "Road to the Pro" cornhole journey on his YouTube channel here. Download free tools or enroll in our courses at technopath.podia.com ..read more

INFO Never miss an episode or recap again! Sign up for our weekly newsletter, The Technopath Way Tips here. Take Away Tips: You do not need a Salesforce Certification to work in a Salesforce Career, Laurel knows many that don't Certifications demonstrate theoritical and technical knowledge and can be an asset in a job search Before you sit for a cert, spend time doing a self-assessment, finding adjacent roles, and building hands-on experience, but be wary of volunteer roles, because you may not be prepared Nonprofits, give any Salesforce volunteers a super-user mentor as they come into yo ..read more

Never miss an episode or recap again! Sign up for our weekly newsletter, The Technopath Way Tips Thank you to this week’s sponsor - Sunsama! Have you tried Sunsama? Get your first three weeks free with our link: https://www.sunsama.com/a/technopath This week’s episode we have something special in store! We’re sharing one of our recent Salesforce Saturdays when Sarah talked all about technical debt and how to Spring Clean your systems. She dives deep into how you can get organized, clean up confusingly named reports and converting process builders to flows. Take Away Tips: Start every flow ..read more

Never miss an episode or recap again! Sign up for our weekly newsletter, The Technopath Way Tips, here: https://www.technopath.ac-page.com/the-technopath-way-sign-up Thank you to this week’s sponsor - Sunsama! Have you tried Sunsama? Get your first three weeks free with our link: https://www.sunsama.com/a/technopath A couple of weeks ago, Sarah hosted a very popular Salesforce Saturday session about building an app to track goals. We heard feedback about why it was so popular for two reasons. Reason number one is the geeky reason - people want to know how to build an app. Reason number two t ..read more

Never miss an episode or recap again! Sign up for our weekly newsletter, The Technopath Way Tips, here: https://www.technopath.ac-page.com/the-technopath-way-sign-up One of the things that is often left out or at least not easy to organize when dealing with technology is documentation. Specifically training documentation. Last year around this time one of my students from our masterclass came to office hours and showed us this tool that blew my mind. I am so pleased to have the CEO of that amazing tool, Scribe, here to tell us about not only how the tool works and how it was developed, but al ..read more

Never miss an episode or recap again! Sign up for our weekly newsletter, The Technopath Way Tips, here: https://www.technopath.ac-page.com/the-technopath-way-sign-up We love learning here at Technopath which is why we are so excited to welcome Alexander Lapa as today’s guest! This week we’re hearing about his journey to help nonprofits with Salesforce and subsequent adventure building a tax receipting app for Canadian nonprofits using Salesforce. If you’ve wondered how those apps your Salesforce org uses, make it from idea all the way into the App Exchange, this episode is for you! Alex walks ..read more

Never miss an episode or recap again! Sign up for our weekly newsletter, The Technopath Way Tips, here: https://www.technopath.ac-page.com/the-technopath-way-sign-up Salesforce is becoming a more popular career and when people start down the path they have choices to make. Will they be a Salesforce Administrator for a single company, will they be a consultant, do they want to work as a business analyst, learn to be a developer, or even a Salesforce architecht. There are so many different paths to take just in roles and then in terms of industry you can pick finance, healthcare, or nonprofits ..read more