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Google Analytics is an essential tool for many nonprofits seeking to effectively track their online marketing efforts. Whether you're focused on fundraising, event registrations, advocacy efforts, email sign ups or overall content marketing strategies, digging into the details of those eyeballs that are checking you out online vital. But numbers aren't everything. Sometimes a little context goes a long way in making sense of them.

Spring has sprung, and with April Fools Day behind us (or wait, is Salesforce really moving to a do-it-yourself environment?), we bring you another week's worth of Salesforce community goodness. Pull up a stool, and join us in the PUB Crawl!

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The PUB Crawl is opening a little late today. You see, many of us are coming back to work a bit bleary-eyed due to the craziness that was last week. NPSP Community Sprint. Salesforce Day. Nonprofit Technology Conference. Phew.

Here's a heaping portion of knowledge served with a rich cup of coffee to start your week off right.

Release 3.69 brings with it changes to the NPSP Settings view to update it to use Lightning and to separate out the bulk data processing tools into their own section. Plus, showers of love from the Nonprofit Starter Pack Sprint this week.

Watch the rundown to get caught up in about 60 seconds:

With our intrepid reporter on the ground, we're live blogging the Salesforce.org Nonprofit Starter Pack Spring 2016 Sprint! Keep refreshing this page for minute-by-minute updates and follow us on Twitter to get all the breaking news!

It's an exciting day at the PUB Crawl, with the NPSP Spring 2016 Sprint starting in just a few hours (9am PT)! More than 60 community members will be joining me in San Francisco to do what this community does best: collaborate to make important improvements to the NPSP. Also, eating burritos.

The PUB Crawl will be covering the event all day long in our live blog coverage as well as on the @PICnet Twitter feed. Our intrepid reporter (and trusty penguin) will bring you the scoop as it happens live from San Francisco.

Meanwhile, in case green beverages were spilled on your laptop last week and you didn't have time to read the PUB, here's your week in review.

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Too busy to read the entire Power of Us Hub last week because you were choosing your NCAA basketball tournament brackets by coolest mascot? Tired because you stayed up too late partying with POTUS and the Canadian PM over state dinners? I understand your pain. Saddle up to the PUB Crawl, I’ve got your Monday morning pick-me-up.

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With the 3.66 release of the Salesforce Nonprofit Starter Pack, more views get struck by Lightning and in-kind gifts get dropped into your Salesforce instance. Plus wild rumors swirl regarding a potential professional move of a beloved Salesforce MVP and Nonprofit Starter Pack Advisory Board Member.

Watch the rundown to get caught up in about 60 seconds:

For the full release notes and documentation, check out the announcement in the Salesforce.org Power of Us Hub (Salesforce login required)!

Feeling like a kite thrashed by the wind amid the news cycle craziness, town halls, debates, Super Tuesdays and Super Saturdays, donkey parades and elephant wrestling matches? Join us in the PUB Crawl today and enjoy the peaceful, calm winds of Salesforce knowledge.

Just one request: please don't ask to have CNN turned on the TV. House of Cards? Well, okay.

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I'm assuming most of you are still recovering from your late night Oscar parties in Hollywood, so I've kept this week's PUB Crawl short and sweet for your bloodshot eyes.

Grab your favorite late night drink cure, and join us for a morning round of Salesforce knowledge. Oh, and toss a high-five to Leo for me.

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From Household naming enhancements to data importer goodness, we've got some amazing updates from some amazing people with the latest amazing Nonprofit Starter Pack release. In fact, if were to sum it all up in word, we say it was, uh...

Fantastic?

Watch the rundown to get caught up in about 60 seconds:

For the full release notes, check out the announcement in the Salesforce.org Power of Us Hub (Salesforce login required)!

You'd think it was happy hour all day the way knowledge was being poured at the PUB last week! With a new NPSP release, the addition of new nonprofit rock stars to the MVP community, and much more, we have a packed PUB Crawl today. Top off that morning beverage and let's dive in!

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Another Nonprofit Starter Pack release, another installment of the PUB Crawl's Release Notes Rundown! The updates pushed last night provide some fantastic new functionality for tracking soft credits and matching gifts within the Nonprofit Starter Pack and we just couldn't help but gush with love and appreciation for those that made it all happen.

For the full release notes and the 20+ pages of documentation on how to make the functionality available to your Salesforce org, check out the announcement in the Salesforce.org Power of Us Hub (Salesforce login required)!

As we in America celebrate President's Day today, grab a cup of your favorite POTUS-approved beverage and join us for another round of knowledge at the PUB Crawl!

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Pick up the cheese doodles and the nachos from your Super Bowl party and get ready for another edition of the PUB Crawl. Grab a stool and a tall cup of coffee and enjoy this week's community goodness. Oh, and you're joining us at the NPSP Community Sprint in San Francisco on March 21, right?

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As the great thaw continues here in DC, and as the US presidential race really heats up, we have a bowl of Salesforce knowledge snacks waiting for you at the PUB. Pull up a barstool and join us for another round of goodness.

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With the PUB Crawl, we aim to make your life easier by packaging all the best of the Salesforce.org Power of Us Hub into one handy weekly email.

Well, we're taking another step in your life easing effort! For those who think reading is totally overrated, we're rolling out the first installment of the PUB Crawl: Nonprofit Starter Pack Release Notes Rundown. Within about 60 seconds, you'll hear the latest additions and updates to the Nonprofit Starter Pack, the open source, community-driven, Salesforce.org-shepherded CRM engine powering many-a nonprofit's social change-making engines.

This inaugural installment runs down the details of Release 3.62 as shared by Jason Lantz of Salesforce.org plus tosses in a few little extras of our own. So belly up to the PUB Crawl bar and hear the barkeep share the latest news:

Digging out of a snow drift from the 2016 blizzard? Want to warm up with some good stuff from the barrel of Salesforce knowledge? Pull up a barstool and let's start your week on the right foot with this week's edition of the PUB Crawl.

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As we take an opportunity to honor MLK with a day of service, I'm pleased to present all the goodness that was the volunteer service of our PUB community during the past week. Enjoy this holiday edition of the PUB Crawl!

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It seems that someone made the coffee extra strong in the PUB last week to help us out of the post-New Year's slumber. Saddle up with a tall cup of your favorite morning beverage and enjoy an extended edition of the PUB Crawl!

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