Monthly Archives: July 2008

Journey to Rock the House at Dreamforce 08

Posted on July 31, 2008 by Jeff Grosse in News | 3 Comments

Get ready for a great show Monday night, November 3 at Moscone Center in San Francisco. Journey will be taking the stage at this year’s Global Gala, for a great time of food, drink, and rock & roll. If you needed another reason to go to Dreamforce 08, add joining 10,000 other people for a private concert with Journey to the list. It should be great. Catch part of their show earlier this year below. Journey with Arnel Pineda at … →

Ideas – Allow Dashboard Components to Show Grand Totals

Posted on July 31, 2008 by Jeff Grosse in Ideas | Leave a comment

Kudos to Aaron for posting this Idea. When you create a dashboard component from a Summary Report, you often times want to see not only the parts which made up that report, but you’d like to see a grand total tool. While it was noted that you can create another dashboard component and put it directly beneath your first component to list the grand total, it would be great to not have to waste another component for it, let alone … →

Introducing Featured Ideas on CRMFYI

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Jeff Grosse in Ideas, News, Tools | 1 Comment

Since its introduction in 2006, the Salesforce IdeaExchange has been a powerful source of customer involvement in improving Salesforce.com. Part of the success of the IdeaExchange has been opening the mic and letting every person have their say. Another part of that success though is the involvement Salesforce has mandated on their Product Management teams to be on the IdeaExchange and knowing what people want from each of their products. One thing I’ve struggled with though is getting my favorite … →

An Easy and Effective Way to Get Your Targeted Message Across in Salesforce

Posted on July 17, 2008 by Jeff Grosse in AppExchange, Tools | Leave a comment

How do you communicate with your Salesforce Users?  Email, newsletters, a “News” section within the Salesforce sidebar or Home Page?  Each can have it’s appropriate time and place, but how do you manage it all?  You want to target your message to the right teams, at the right time.  Especially when it comes to a change in process or functionality within Salesforce, you want to provide a way they can see that message easily, without having to dig too deep.  … →

Expense Reporting Just Got Sexy with Expense2GO for iPhone

Posted on July 10, 2008 by Jeff Grosse in AppExchange, Integration, Mobile, News, Productivity, Tools | 7 Comments

When you travel, why is it that in spite of the fact that you want your money back quickly, submitting your expense report is not the top activity on your mind? So far, for most of us, it’s because we’ve been stuck in a tedious processes of gathering receipts, taping them to paper, inputting data on either a spreadsheet or online app, then either dropping them in an envelope to Accounting. We put off submitting that expense report because it’s … →

Nominate a Band for Dreamforce 08

Posted on July 8, 2008 by Jeff Grosse in Dreamforce | Leave a comment

As Dreamforce 08 approaches, so does choosing a band for the Monday night Global Gala. Salesforce has asked a group of customers for their opinions on the entertainment choices. Though I’m sworn to secrecy as to who they’re thinking of, I’d like to open up a survey to you and see who you’d like to perform this year. Last year they had INXS who put on a pretty good show. This year, who will it be? Maybe it’s just who … →

What do you want to learn? Salesforce is asking for your ideas

Posted on July 6, 2008 by Jeff Grosse in Dreamforce, Social Networking | 2 Comments

Count on Salesforce to use their own tools to the n’th degree. They’ve launched a new Ideas portal that’s designed specifically for making Dreamforce sessions exactly what you want to learn about. They call it Help Create The Conference. It’s a new way they’re using their Ideas product for the conference and I think it’s a great idea. Be sure to add the sessions you want and vote on those you feel passionate about. One thing to remember is that … →

Dreamforce Registration Open – I’m Going…..How About You?

Posted on July 3, 2008 by Jeff Grosse in Dreamforce, News | Leave a comment

The Dreamforce 08 portal has been opened for registration.  The conference is later than usual this year as they’re having it November 2–5.  It’s in beautiful San Francisco and without a doubt, you need to go. I’ll be writing more later about reasons you should go, but check out the portal and get yourself registered today.  Take advantage of the $200 off early bird registration discount by registering before September 5, and be sure to check out discounted group rates as well. Just one … →