It’s days like this that you can hopefully see a great reason to at least pay attention to Twitter, even if you don’t yet have an account there and participate. This afternoon, I was adding notes to an internal support case on my ever-so-faithful Salesforce.com Case tab. I hit Save, and it started chugging…..and chugging….and
I put together a short highlights video of this year’s Dreamforce event in San Francisco. Thanks to other photo contributors Scott Barlow, Matt (mdmkd), Craig Villamor, Mike Leach, and Michael Krigsman for your additional great shots.
Marcelo Lewin, of the Pixel Heads Network recently posted an interview with Peter Coffee, platform evangelist for Salesforce.com. Pixel Heads specializes in videos, blogs, and podcasts aimed at entertaining, informing, and teaching digital content authors. An interesting point Coffee brings up in the interview is the broad use of the term “platform” today. He helps
I found it interesting to read Bill Snyder of Computerworld put Salesforce.com CEO, Marc Benioff in what Snyder calls, “our Bozo Hall of Fame.” He walks the reader through the drama that unfurled about a year ago when Salesforce.com began some type of talks with Zoho’s CEO, Sridhar Vembu about bringing the Zoho productivity suite to
I came across two interesting sites today. Anyone who is interested in taking the certification exam on being a Salesforce administrator should check them out. The one site is ForceCertified.com where you can find some great information and exercises to get yourself prepared for the certification exam. They’ve got many examples of concepts and topics
Salesforce has provided the Dreamforce 08 breakout sessions in record time this year. Kudos to Erica Kuhl and her web services team at Salesforce tor getting them up so quickly. Head on over to the Salesforce.com Community site and check out all the sessions you wanted to attend but couldn’t get to. This year they
One of the key messages from Dreamforce 08 was the coming ability to build what are called Force.com Sites. These sites are websites you can build to extend the reach of CRM and your own built apps on the Force.com platform to people who don’t use Salesforce. This extends the your ability to gather data
Stop by the Immersion Lab upstairs to get your own copy of the Force.com Workbook. It’s a great book of 13 tutorials to build Force.com apps in just 30 minutes. Need it today or not, stop by and take one home. You’ll be amazed what you cab do. The online version can be downloaded here.
Model Metrics is a recognized leader in training people on Salesforce.com. They now have authorized training centers in Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, and Minneapolis where they are now the place to get trained in those cities. Their consistent push to excellence has helped them achieve this level of partnership with Salesforce which very
You don’t often hear where executives put their money, but an interesting story this morning tells where Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos have put some of their own money. They’ve helped startup ZocDoc with $3 million in Series A funding. ZocDoc helps patients get doctor and dentist appointments quickly, online. You