This is one of those things that SHOULD be so simple! Why is it not simple? *Shakes fist* My real goal: Automate sending emails to acknowledge donations in Salesforce. My interim goal: Update email templates that will be used in aforementioned automation. Where I got stuck: Updating the letterhead of the aforementioned email templates. This … Continue reading How to resize logos for Salesforce Classic Letterhead (Email Templates)
data and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party pt i: battle of the forms
On Instagram yesterday, Sista Docta Alexis Pauline Gumbs (@alexispauline) reminded me, "exactly 60 years ago today, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Baker, and others were fundraising as the Mississippi Democratic party to pay for buses and cheap hotel rooms on their way to crash the 1964 Democratic National Convention." This got me on a kick to … Continue reading data and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party pt i: battle of the forms
recurring thoughts on recurring donations in the Salesforce NPSP
This post will read like "inside baseball" for people who are familiar with Salesforce, the Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP), various iterations of the NPSP over the years, and other automation features in Salesforce. However, if you don't regularly engage in those topics, I hope there's still ideas worth discussing in here! For more than 5 … Continue reading recurring thoughts on recurring donations in the Salesforce NPSP
Dear Spreadsheet Whisperer: HALP! Unusable Email List Format!
Dear Spreadsheet Whisperer, I am working with a political mobilization org that shared their email list with me so that I could engage their members in the upcoming election. Time to get involved! However, when opened the file with the list of emails, the spreadsheet was oriented landscape style and the emails looked like they … Continue reading Dear Spreadsheet Whisperer: HALP! Unusable Email List Format!
exploring “spoonable hours”
Exploring the intersections of freelancing and fair pricing and disability justice in a very imperfect world
a dilemma in form assembly
How to handle forms with conditional content that are divided into different pages.
5 user onboarding tips from Animal Crossing
This is NOT sponsored by animal crossing (lol) but would I say no... ??? [absolutely, I would say no. This blog is 100% unsponsored and I plan to keep it that way!] For Chanukah, Mr. Spreadsheet Whisperer and I purchased a new videogame device (the kind that you play animal crossing on!!! they don't need my help … Continue reading 5 user onboarding tips from Animal Crossing
my internet habits are changing
I'm experimenting with Notion and Reddit and some new strategies for productivity management (ugh) ... and having a great time doing it!
demystifying the INSUFFICIENT ACCESS ON CROSS REFERENCE ENTITY error in salesforce
This Reddit commenter says it all: "Insufficient access rights on cross-reference id? Could mean a permissions issue, could mean the record is deleted, could mean the id was wrong. Big pain." In this post, I detail 3 scenarios that have caused the Insufficient Access error, and how I debugged them.
I’m learning text banking!
Playing with three vendors for mass social justice SMS texting!