Admins with Disabilities Meetups:
1. DevZone "Code Consultations" area on Tues, 9/15 from 6pm-7pm
- Stop by anytime during the 6-7 timeframe to meet.
- Please bring ideas for future plans for the group beyond Dreamforce.
2. Marriott Marquis Hotel in the Sierra H room on on Fri, 9/18 from 10:30am - 11:00am
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http://ctt.ec/9afj4#DFGives @Mary Wilder @Alicia SchmidtWe've been close to pulling the trigger on Conga for a long while - its reputation is stellar in this and the broader SF community; however, the 5 min. seats was a roadblock for our simple needs (1 person mail merging a few letters annually).
We've been exporting reports and using MS Office mail merging from those, but with a new staffer, an impending move to O365 with some budget and a desire to make this as efficient as possible, we just went to get a Conga quote and found that they now require 11 min. seats. Their 1-10 "starter pack" effectively triples the annual NPO cost (from ~$500 to ~$1400, which is even tougher to justify for one effective user). Out of curiosity - anyone get a surprise in their Conga annual renewal or are they grandfathering existing users (my apprehension about cloud/subscription pricing is starting to be realized, perhaps)?
Anyway, is there any other app that might do simple mail merging as I described or is export to MS Office mail merging just as well?
Validity just partially walked back the DemandTools change a few days ago. If a nonprofit has less than $250K in assets they can qualify for a grant. So far, none of my clients qualify.
Apsona is a good alternative for some of the function but DT deduplication is really quite powerful, amazingly so.
One of Validity's emails seems to say that nonprofits are costing them $5M per year in lost revenue but that's only true if the nonprofits actually pony up the money. I'm hard pressed to see that happening.
...Bob
[New Post] Tips and Tricks to get the most out of Dreamforce’17!
It is that time of the year again! The dates for Dreamforce 2017 – November 6th – 9th – have already been announced! We #SalesforceOhana can not wait to hear about new features of Salesforce; and, look forward to learning from what others have been doing. The event gets bigger year after year – with the plethora of acquisitions; sheer number of new products featured at the event are staggering.
San Francisco is in the Places to Visit list for nearly everyone. And Dreamforce is an excellent opportunity to get the best of San Francisco combined with the best of technology. Dreamforce’17 in San Francisco is going to be the place to be for well over 170K (2016 statistics) attendees.
I had the opportunity to attend Dreamforce (#DF16) and (#DF15). It does sneak up on you. Therefore, it is good to be prepared! Here are few tips to get you ready for the biggest event of the year.
Read the rest of this entry!
https://automationchampion.com/2017/09/06/tips-and-tricks-to-get-the-most-out-of-dreamforce17/
Yesterday Mark and I did a Introduction to #Flow webinar for Salesforce with @Gillian Bruce I've had a few requests for the links we mentioned for some other resources from Mark and I. Here's the list:
The WizardCast Podcast can be found here: http://thewizardnews.com/wizardcast_home/
iTunes fans: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/wizardcast/id979286226?mt=2
My youtube Flow tutorials can be found here: http://bit.ly/WizardApprenticeFlow
@Mark Ross and I also did a #HOT at #DF15 that was recorded on Flow. You can find that here: https://www.salesforce.com/campaigns/success-services/sfu-hands-on-training-sessions.jsp
My blog: http://thewizardnews.com/blog/
For flow specific posts: http://thewizardnews.com/?s=flow
You can find our success group @WizardCast feel free to leave us comments, suggestions, and ideas of what you want to hear. I also have my own group @Wizard Magic if you want to see more flow videos - let me know what you want to learn over there and I'll do my best to make more.
Also post over at http://betterpartners.com/blog/
Post DF15 Success for Nonprofits ~ new blog post! Hey, remember Dreamforce? Yeah, it's kind of a hazy memory for me too as I've been playing catch up at work ever since. I had a ton of fun, but I learned stuff, right? Take these tips to bring it all back and keep up the learning adventure until DF16! @The Blog Group @Nonprofits at Dreamforce @Nonprofit Hub
Added more time-saving live templates: SEL (SELECT statement) and SEL* (SELECT * statement) in SOQL; sqm (SELECT into Map keyed by Id) in Apex.
