A Little Help from My Friends
In a demonstration of community and collaboration, Mike Gerholdt and I have created a blog post / demo video of utilizing inline Visualforce to display rich text info in standard page layouts without using fields.
Posts Categorized / Social Networking
When Hit or Miss Research Just Doesn’t Cut It in Business, You Need To Try Gist
When Shane Mac at Gist approached me for a quick guest blog post on how I use Gist, I jumped at the opportunity. It’s easy to talk about companies and products that make your life better. Today my post hit their blog and you can certainly read more about it here. Just as a bonus
The Day the Earth was Chatterized
Can you think of a significant day in the history of software? I’m looking for a day that a single company changed the way millions of people do business and made them more productive. I’m guessing there have been a few; but honestly none of them quickly come to mind. From this point forward though,
Be a Hero to Your Users
This week I had a chance to write a guest blog post for the Salesforce AppExchange. I chose to write about utilizing networks to become a hero to your Salesforce users. It’s not hard, it really doesn’t take that much time, and in the beginning, you can even start out by just listening in. No
My Dreamforce 09 Game Plan
The bags are almost packed. I’m nearly ready to go. Before I pack up the laptop for the trip, I thought I’d pass along some info on where I’ll be and what I’ll be doing at Dreamforce, just in case you’d like to find me among our newest 15,000+ friends. New Attendee Orientation Tuesday night
Salesforce Service Cloud 2 Introduces Knowledge, Answers, and the Greatly Anticipated, Native Salesforce for Twitter
Momentum keeps growing in the Service and Support realm at Salesforce.com. What started as humble beginnings back in 2005 as relatively simple case management is now expanding to be the most comprehensive Service and Support offering yet; the Salesforce Service Cloud 2. With 8,000 companies already using the “current” Service Cloud platform, Salesforce has cemented
Bargain Hunters Rejoice! Get into Dreamforce 09 for Half Price; Only $599
Dreamforce is the annual user conference of Salesforce.com, and even though it doesn’t start for another seven months, now is the time for a great deal on passes to this year’s conference. The dates for Dreamforce 09 are November 17-20 this year, and it’s held in San Francisco. Just contact your Salesforce Account Executive before the
Salesforce Users Reach Critical Mass on Twitter and Validate the Extent of the Salesforce Outage Today Live
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
Relive Dreamforce 08 in the Comfort of Your Home or Office
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
Successforce 3.0 – Come and Join Us
Ever wanted to make your voice heard in the Successforce Community? Well, Salesforce gives you lots of outlets to express yourself, but do you ever feel confused by all the parts of the overall Salesforce Community site? Wikis, blogs, user groups, Connect on Demand, forums, articles, ideas, guides….they are all a part of the community,