Groundwire Labs Blog
Engagement Tracker For All
Did you know that we're making our sophisticated engagement technology available to everyone even if you're not a client of ours?
Volunteers of the World Rejoice!
Our leading volunteer management app, Volunteers for Salesforce, now supports language localization.
Groundwire Labs receives support from Salesforce.com Foundation
Over 100 Organizations install Volunteers for Salesforce
It’s only been one month since we released Volunteers for Salesforce on the AppExchange and over 100 organizations have already started using it.
Groundwire Labs releases Volunteers for Salesforce
Manage your volunteer program with our new Salesforce.com app.
Watch Video from 2011 Speed Geek
Learn more about our work with online letter-writing and petitions, carbon calculators, automated email campaigns, tracking engagement tools, online event registration tools, resource libraries and see our newest application for Salesforce.com—Volunteers for Salesforce—in action!
Checking in with Groundwire Labs
Find out about new Salesforce.com apps and Plone products coming out of Groundwire Labs.
Managing Volunteers, the Salesforce Way
We sat down with Groundwire Labs Manager Eric Magnuson to learn more about one of the Labs exciting new projects for 2011 – Volunteers for Salesforce.
Groundwire feels the Dreamforce
With a promise of being near former President Bill Clinton and getting down with Stevie Wonder while drinking from a fire hose of Salesforce.com expertise, the Groundwire database team + labs manager headed down to San Francisco last week to attend the annual Salesforce "Dreamforce" conference.
Our First Groundwire Labs Salon
Last week we held our first Groundwire Labs salon at Groundwire HQ in Seattle. About 30 smarty-pants came together with our staff to help us think about, and set, priorities for the civic engagement technology work we do in Groundwire Labs.
Event Registration Made Easy and Useful
With the Eventbrite Connector for Salesforce, you can manage your event with Eventbrite and then seamlessly capture all of that critical supporter information in Salesforce.
Review: ConstantContact Salesforce Integration
ConstantContact recently announced a new Salesforce integration and here is our assessment. While the integration is easy to setup and use it falls short in a few key areas. Bottom line = a bunt instead of a grand slam.
Email Broadcasting Trends Report
In July 2010, Groundwire surveyed its clients and followers to determine what common email broadcasting trends are present in the environmental nonprofit sector.
Online Petitions now available with Megaphone 2.0
Megaphone 2.0 now combines letter-writing campaign functionality with petition-signing to deliver a powerful set of advocacy features to your website.
Coming Soon: New Volunteer Management Tool for Salesforce
Groundwire Labs, our innovation engine for engagement technology, is honored to receive a $20,000 grant from the Salesforce foundation to build a volunteer management module.
Meet Our New Labs Manager, Eric Magnuson
We are thrilled to welcome Eric Magnuson to the Groundwire team. Eric is our new (and first!) Labs Manager. At the end of last year, we put an official name to our innovation program and Groundwire Labs was born.
A Better Way to Track Email in Salesforce
We believe that significant improvements in email broadcasting data storage efficiency are easily achievable, by using Campaign Member objects as the point of integration, rather than a custom object. Here's how email service providers can implement this solution.
Sharing Code for Social Change
One of reasons we enjoy creating relationship management tools with Salesforce.com is the energy of the community that has grown around it. From discussion groups to monthly user group meetings to the annual Dreamforce conference, there are plenty of opportunities to learn from other nonprofits taking advantage of the same tools.

