We voted on our own session ideas, broke out into small groups, mingled with the Support Department at PICnet, had a gorgeous location and beautiful weather, and got to learn from accidental techies about their successes and struggles with technology for their own organizations.

It was certainly a productive, worthwhile way to spend a day in Washington, DC.

But what’s that? It’s happening again? That’s right! This Wednesday, May 8, 2013 we’ll be repeating the magic of our first Soapbox User Summit with the 2013 version.

Although the location has changed and the weather can’t be guaranteed, with all of our clients gathering in one space for an all-day unconference, it’s sure to be full of insightful information, giving us a renewed sense of community within the non-profit world with tons of tricks, tools, best practices, and discussion peppered throughout the day.

As an attendee, you get to pick the topics you want to discuss, have first-hand access to PICnet staff so all your questions get answered, and have the opportunity to submit new feature requests to help shape the future of our tools. Plus, we want to show you what products we at PICnet have been working on this past year. We have so many things we want to share with you, face to face, during the summit so don’t miss out on this opportunity!

If you didn’t sign up yet, do so now and make some memories with us at this year’s Soapbox User Summit!

We’ve shared our Top 5 Reasons to attend. We’ve quoted glowing recommendations from last year’s attendees. We’ve expressed how getting together with other Soapbox users and PICnetters can supercharge your organization’s mission, raise more money, and reduce expenses.

Now the only thing remaining is for you to sign up and join us!

Take the leap! Register today to join us next Wednesday, May 8th!

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In her series, Judi provides guidance to nonprofits caught by the demise of Convio Common Ground and highlights various tools to consider, including our own Soapbox Engage.

In the concluding post of her series earlier this week, she made one particular comment that moved us:

Simply put: It’s not enough to just have something to sell.

The best part about Salesforce is that it isn’t just a platform to build stuff on. It’s a large, inter-connected ecosystem and developers have to expect that their customers are going use their apps in ways they never imagined and alongside other apps they never heard of. That fact has to motivate companies, not scare them.

Amen, sister! That’s one of the powerful, inspiring things about the Salesforce.com platform and we, at PICnet, are definitely motivated by that fact. The ecosystem can be a beautiful thing!

Social change requires a connected effort by many, many folks with all sorts of expertise contributing in all sorts of ways. That requires not just one end-all-and-be-all technology solution but an ecosystem that can grow and adapt to provide ever-evolving solutions that can knit together into cohesive strategies.

Here’s to embracing the challenge of and being motivated by the large, interconnected ecosystem – all for the empowering of our nonprofit clients so they can shake up the world for social good.

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