Category Archives: SalesForce.com

Inside Baseball for Everything

SugarCRM is an open source CRM system, kind of a David to Salesforce.com’s Goliath. It’s been doing very well, but there was a surprise last week as the Co-Founder and CEO stepped down. Check out this post: Never before has … Continue reading

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DonorsChoose.org

As a presenter at the SalesForce.com annual conference (DreamForce ’09) I was given a $100 gift card for DonorsChoose.org , an organization that uses the web to match donors with projects in schools that require funding. From the project that … Continue reading

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Dreamforce Keynote 3

Notes from the third keynote on day 2: Focus philanthrophy, showing what the Salesforce.com foundation is using around the word. Shout out to Witness.org (Peter Gabriel has done some work with them). Salesforce has a 1% program (learn about it … Continue reading

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Dreamforce Morning Keynote Day 2

The notes from day two (pictures to follow when I get everything posted over on Flickr). One other thing I didn’t mention in the last post – Neil Young took the stage showing off his new hybrid car project LincVolt. … Continue reading

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Live from Dreamforce

Here are my notes from the 1st Keynote at Dreamforce, the annual Salesforce.com user convention. I’m at the first keynote for Dreamforce, I just saw Robert Scobel hanging out in the blogger section. Fred from the Chronicle is in front … Continue reading

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Dreamforce Meetup

For anyone in the SF Area, and attendees of the Salesforce.com Event (Dreamforce), I’ll be buying a round (although rumor has it Manticore will be providing a round too). Feel free to stop by: Tues. Nov.4 6:30 pm – 8:30 … Continue reading

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Beyond CRM

Lately I’ve been thinking more outside of the box. Not because I’ve taken any consultant or analyst pills, but rather because the world just decided to kick me out of the cardboard container I’m used to. First was a few … Continue reading

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Expanding capacity and infrastructure

I’m looking at implementing an add-on solution to Salesforce.com that would set up some automated processes and do some more powerful stuff, such as lead scoring. More to follow on that, and Marketing Over Coffee tomorrow!

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BlogDay

Today is officially BlogDay, you can get the story and original recommendations in my previous post. Just a few other things I read that are always great: I’m a salesforce.com insider by reading SalesforceWatch. On the small business tech font, … Continue reading

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Still off the grid

Home inspection tomorrow so things are still moving. Some quick things you may be interested in: Google is cracking down on search arbitrage I was unable to hit the WebInno event yesterday so I’m looking for a good writeup on … Continue reading

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