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Hello everyone, my name is John Wall and this is where I write about Marketing, Technology and whatever else I find interesting (your mileage may vary). Please check out Marketing Over Coffee, a podcast I do with Christopher Penn. I also have a weekly podcast called The M Show which is great for your commute to work (or even if you don't commute). BTW, I don't look this good, I have a great photographer. I can be reached at: john at themshow dot com

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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 news been gathered and spread so fast. Is it any wonder that trade magazines are doomed [...]

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 I chose:
“Help me teach the language to my preschoolers! I teach public preschool in an [...]

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 at ShareTheModel.org) employees get 6 days a year to work with charitable organizations.
Dr. Larry Brilliant (co-founder [...]

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. It has both an electric and a compressed natural gas (CNG) engine. The CNG engine [...]

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 of me sporting about 10k worth of camera gear. I’m not looking that cool with my [...]

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 pm Restaurant Azie,
826 Folsom Street – about a block from Moscone Center.
If you [...]

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 weeks ago when I installed VMware Fusion on my wife’s Mac. The sight of windows booting [...]

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!

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, and for Tales of Chicago check out Chicago Mike.
Most readers know I’m still going through Sex and the [...]

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 what I missed.
Some rumors about Google acquiring Salesforce.com but I think those are just rumors.
A new Marketing [...]