Don’t Miss The SKY Platform Update Briefing And After Party
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The SKY Platform and Marketplace Update Briefing is Wednesday, April 26th at 11am ET (4 pm BST). To help you take advantage of all of the SKY Platform capabilities available to you, the team put together a checklist. Bookmark this page and follow along!
And be sure to join us for the After Party! At the After Party, we’ll officially kick off the 2023 Innovation Grants program and begin the countdown to bbdevdays with music, contests, and prizes!
What is the 2023 Innovation Grants program? Winners of Innovation Grants get paired with technical experts to help you build an application, BI, or automation project. We look especially for projects that have the potential to benefit the entire SKY Developer Community in addition to your organization. We’ll share examples of winning projects from past years to get your creative grant-applying ideas going!
Did you miss the last SKY Platform Update? We put together a 15-minute synopsis featuring LEGO that helps to demystify “What is Blackbaud SKY?”. It’s worth watching ahead of Wednesday’s show!
SKY Platform Checklist for Customers:
And be sure to join us for the After Party! At the After Party, we’ll officially kick off the 2023 Innovation Grants program and begin the countdown to bbdevdays with music, contests, and prizes!
What is the 2023 Innovation Grants program? Winners of Innovation Grants get paired with technical experts to help you build an application, BI, or automation project. We look especially for projects that have the potential to benefit the entire SKY Developer Community in addition to your organization. We’ll share examples of winning projects from past years to get your creative grant-applying ideas going!
Did you miss the last SKY Platform Update? We put together a 15-minute synopsis featuring LEGO that helps to demystify “What is Blackbaud SKY?”. It’s worth watching ahead of Wednesday’s show!
SKY Platform Checklist for Customers:
- Update your Identity and Access routines:
- Enable Single Sign On (SSO) via your Identity provider, such as Azure AD, to simplify user management and take control of authentication. Pro Tip: Ensure you have at least one Organization Administrator account with an email address that is not on your primary domain.
- Enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for your users to provide an additional layer of authentication.
- Personalize your Account Page
- Visit our new Welcome Page by clicking on ‘Blackbaud Account’ under your profile from the bar you see at the top of any Blackbaud page when you’re logged in.
- Review your Profile, including:
- Update your communication preferences to receive important product and service availability notifications, such as scheduled maintenance alerts, for your Blackbaud solutions
- Update your contact phone (to share with Blackbaud support) and job title at your organization.
- Review your User access for compliance with principle of least privilege
- New! from the Welcome page, if you already have access to manage users in products with Control Panel, you’ll now see a Security action button to take you right into User Access/Security Roles. Remove roles from users that no longer need access. Instead of granting Environment admin access, give users Solution Admin access to the specific solutions they use. If users have left your organization, make them Inactive.
- From Admin,
- Review users who need ‘Admin’ access and inactivate any who are no longer at your organization.
- If you are also an Environment Administrator, visit Settings and manage your environment name and ensure that any test environments have the correct Environment Type.
- Check out new Blackbaud Marketplace features:
- Leave a review if you use an app!
- See new partners in our Reporting and Analytics category
- Register for bbdevdays, the Blackbaud learning event for developers of all levels! Join the community as we convene virtually June 6 – 8, 2023.
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- Increase your visibility. Submit or update your Marketplace listing to help customers find your application and connect with confidence.
- Limit your app’s scope
- Publish your attestation
- Launch a Review Campaign. Customer reviews improve your chances of being noticed! To solicit more positive reviews, you can copy a link directly to the review form and share that with your customers. From your Application details page, select Copy links, Leave a review. The link is copied to your computer's clipboard for you to share.
- Check out the new Partner Community. This is where you can get late-breaking news and updates from the Blackbaud Partner Team.
- Sponsor bbdevdays! This is the event where you can showcase your apps, solutions, services, and build your brand with Blackbaud technology enthusiasts. Any questions, contact bbdevdays@blackbaud.com .
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04/24/2023 11:45am EDT
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Thank you to everyone who made it out to the After Party! It was great to get to see and interact with you all.
ICYMI - Here are the updates we shared! And I excerpted the important bits into this 10-minute recording. For those who prefer to read updates, here are the headlines!
I also want to thank Paul Gibson and @Ben Wong with a little help from AI for our official Blackbaud SKY Track.
And a big high five to our DJ Music Trivia - SKY Addition winners FIRST PLACE @Shelby Lewis and SECOND PLACE @Ben Regier. I hope you both liked your gift from our bbdevdays Gear Shop. You can get the set from DJ Brandon Davidson on Soundcloud.