Salsa Scoop
Merchant gateways in the news
Users of the popular merchant gateway Payflow Pro may be contacted by PayPal to advise of changes to the processor's API.
Those changes are slated to take effect in September, and they will affect the way Salsa interacts with PayPal -- but if you run your own Payflow Pro gateway, there's nothing to sweat about. We're on the case, and already have the initial coding done; we should be set for a seamless transition well before September. DemocracyInAction.org's default merchant processor -- the one used by the majority of its member organizations -- is also Payflow Pro, so we're thoroughly incentivized.
In a completely unrelated merchant gateway bulletin, the product formerly known as Linkpoint or YourPay is now First Data Global Solutions. (Both Linkpoint.com and YourPay.com loudly banner this confusing development.)
We're going to need a playbill just to keep track of the dramatis personae. Fortunately, you probably don't use Linkpoint, YourPay, and/or First Data Global Solutions: while it is a supported merchant gateway in Salsa, it's the least frequently chosen.
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02:05 AM Apr 09, 2009 -
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Into the Twittersphere!
Although in fairness, you could say much the same of blogging.
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12:28 PM Apr 03, 2009 -
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UCSD reminds you to target your e-mail blasts with care
UC San Diego -- a school for the smart ones, supposedly -- mistakenly congratulated nearly 29,000 applicants on their acceptance, according to university officials.
Earlier this month, about 17,000 student were offered admission for the fall, leaving nearly 29,000 hopefuls out in the cold.
But on Tuesday, the school's communications office said an e-mail was sent Monday afternoon to all 46,377 students who applied for admission -- including the 29,000 rejects -- welcoming them to the campus.
A half-hour later, school officials said, they realized their mistake. Almost two hours after the first note went out, a second e-mail was sent, apologizing to 28,889 freshmen applicants for the mistake.
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01:00 PM Apr 01, 2009 -
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DIA visits New Mexico during epic storm
Last week I spoke to 100 folks in several workshops about online communications in New Mexico. Seems everywhere we offer strategy and how-to workshops in the West, people love them. We always get 25 - 60 folks (per workshop) in attendance. If you'd like to get your organization, grantees, coalition or community up to speed on online communications, just let us know. We regulary do field visits ... I'm not called the Western Field Director for nothing.
About the epic storm... well, from MT standards (where I live), we don't consider 1 inch of snow worthy of canceling school and highways. The "storm" only put a slight damper on the 40 in attendance on a Friday afternoon.
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12:00 AM Apr 01, 2009 -
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NTEN on Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission
NTEN wrote a book, zippily titled Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission: A Strategic Guide for Nonprofit Leaders, with chapters by some of our favorite nonprofit consultants on strategic IT planning and implementation for nonprofits.
Many of those authors will be on a virtual release party-slash-free webinar this afternoon at 2 p.m. Eastern. Rumor has it prizes are involved.
While we're on the subject of NTEN, its signature event, the annual Nonprofit Technology Conference, is just four weeks away in San Francisco. The best and brightest in nonprofit technology from around the world will be there, so it's well worth the trek -- and always highly recommended as great value for anyone in the region who's never been to one before. NTEN's blog has more to get you in the spirit, including interviews with presenters like Farra Trompeter.
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09:03 AM Mar 31, 2009 -
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