Make your Salesforce Project More Successful by Inviting a BA to the Party (Or Thinking Like One)


Today I welcome my good friend, Garry Polmateer as a guest blogger at CRMFYI. Garry is not only a Salesforce community rockstar, but he's planned and executed some great Salesforce implementations,

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

Chatter-vantage #1 - No Need to Rush the Stage


Salesforce has created a conference attendee experience using Chatter that blows away all other conferences. Their Dreamforce Attendee Portal allows attendees to connect with speakers before, during

I Need You; to Join The Salesforce Channel Community


If you follow me on Twitter, it's hard to miss my regular status updates like,  "21 videos were posted to The Salesforce Channel today," but what's that all about? The Salesforce Channel is a website

Calling All Heroes! You Belong at Dreamforce


Earlier this year, I wrote about being a hero to your users, and the gist of it was that through social media, you can surround yourself with fantastic people who will make you a hero to your users. I

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Want to See the Future of Salesforce? You Can

Posted on April 16, 2009 by Jeff Grosse in Ideas, Productivity, Prototype | Leave a comment

Next Gen UIHow would you like to see the next generation of Salesforce user interface and influence the features that they work on for the future?  You can do that by participating in usability studies with Salesforce that are going on all the time.  Not only can you see all this, you’ll get compensated for the hour of your time that it takes to participate.  Depending on the testing, you can get a $50 or $100 Amazon gift card for just that hour of your time and ideas.

I’ve participated in this program for years and I’m impressed to see how the user experience team has grown and just how many people they hire, just to make sure that these apps look, feel, and act the way we need and expect them to.

Whether you can participate now, or sometime in the future, the person to contact is Miriam Melo. She’ll get you added to the list and as opportunities come up for testing, you’ll just get an email invitation.  Respond if you’re available and she’ll work on getting you in.  It’s that simple.