Hello Everyone~

Our next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday November 19^th starting between 8 and 8:30 a.m.  Although feel free to arrive as your schedule permits you can arrive any time!

Location:

Marriott Courtyard

387 Winter St., Waltham, MA 02451

Carlisle Room

Vtrenz is our sponsor for this meeting, and I am sure we will hear about some Marketing best practices such as lead scoring.  I know their presentation at Dreamforce was quite good.

We'll also be talking about Dreamforce.  Whether you were there or not, I am sure lots of good things will be shared.  I am hoping that someone from Salesforce will be joining us to walk us some of the things presented there.

Look forward to seeing you all there.
Cathy

Dreamforce is almost here!  For those of you who plan to attend please keep your eyes open for any organized User Group Events during the conference.  I have not been informed of any specifics, but they are probably going to arrange something.   I look forward to seeing many of you there!

Please save the date for our next meeting -- Wednesday, November 19.  8:00 am time slot.  Our sponsor for this meeting will be Vtrenz.  Meeting location to follow.

Many of you have approached me about sponsoring a future meeting.  I was maintaining a list of interested companies....and then my hard drive crashed! (ugh)  So if you are interested in sponsoring a future User Group event please send me a quick note to that effect.  Sorry for this.

More soon!
Cathy

Our next meeting will be Tuesday, August 5th.

Hi Everyone ~

Many thanks to our great members for agreeing to participate in a discussion on Tuesday morning about thier implementations of Salesforce.

Meeting Details:

Date:  April 15, 2008

Time:  8:30 a.m

Location:  Marriott Courtyard, Waltham, MA

387 Winter Street

Waltham, Massachusetts 02451 USA

781-419-0900

The meeting will start off with a short presentation from our friends at OneSource.

After that the following people have volunteered to share thier knowledge:

• Scott Melick, Stratus
• Stephanie Gore, OneSource
• Rodney Apura, ATG
• Moe Blaustein, Care.com
• Joe McVicker
• James Sullivan, Black Duck Software

Everyone will give a very short informal presentation about thier validation/workflow/apex scenarios and then we'll have Q&A.

See you all on Tuesday.

Cathy

Save the Date for our Next Meeting!

Something fun to do on Tax Day!

Date:  April 15, 2008

Time:  8:30 a.m

Location:  Marriott Courtyard, Waltham, MA

387 Winter Street

Waltham, Massachusetts 02451 USA

781-419-0900 

This meeting is being sponsored by our friends at OneSource!http://www.onesource.com/

More details to follow.

Cathy

Meeting Details for February 20, 2008 -- "Ask an Expert" Panel Discussion

Time: Starts at 4pm

Location: DoubleTree Waltham, 550 Winter Street, Waltham, MA

Many, Many Thanks to our friends at DreamFactory Software for Sponsoring this Meeting for us. They will be providing refreshments as well as raffling off a Jawbone! The coolest blue tooth enabled, noise cancelling headset.

We'll start with a presentation by DreamFactory to show how they companies maximize their Salesforce investment by enabling them to increase productivity, automate processes and make smarter decisions. DreamFactory provides a suite of solutions for sales, marketing, operations, project leaders and admins that are quick to deploy and use from the AppExchange.

We'll then jump into our Expert Panel Discussion.
Panelists include:
Nigel Young -- Salesforce.com
Patrick Taylor -- Salesforce.com
Michael Keimig -- Salesforce.com
Joe Moloney -- Conselltants

Hi everyone~

In order to assemble the best panel of experts possible, I need to change the date for the Feb. 2008 User Group Meeting.  New date is Wednesday February 20th.  The format is going to be "Ask an Expert" panel discussion.  After the first of the month I will send out the details regarding time and location. 

I'll also ask for early submissions of questions that you would like to have addressed by the panel.  I am sure I will be able to group many questions into topics.  Early submission of these will allow me to prepare the panel so that you get the best possible response.  We'll also allow time for general Q&A and networking at the event. 

I am very excited that our membership keeps growing!  We get new users joining every week, so I am sure that this will be a great meeting.

More soon!

Cathy

Happy New Year Everyone!

With a fruitful holiday season behind us, many of us will need to turn our thoughts and efforts to writing the dreaded Thank You note.  Of course one thing that has probably happened to all of us at one point in our lives is that we wait too long to write that note.  Eventually it becomes so long overdue that you aren't quite sure which is more embarrassing -- writing a long overdue note, or just skipping it all together!  That is pretty much how I feel about how long it has taken me to get this update out to you all!  I've meant to do it just about every day for the last month, but just never got it done.  Of course I don't have the option to just skip it all together, so I'll just have to deal with my embarrassment!

For those of you who were in attendence, I don't have to tell you what a HUGE success our last meeting was.  More people showed up than anticipated, and we had standing room only!  Many thanks to the folks at Lucidera for sponsoring that meeting for us, and to Patrick Taylor from Saleforce.com who gave us an overview of Winter '08.

Save the date for our next meeting -- TUESDAY FEBRUARY 12th.  Location and Time still TBD.  The format for this meeting will be an "Ask an Expert" panel discussion.  The number one thing that everyone wants to know more about is how to maximize all of the standard Salesforce.com functionality.  I hope that this format proves to be very useful.  Stay tuned for more details.

To all the vendors who have offered to sponsor a meeting -- I will be in touch.

Don't forget to plan to attend the Salesforce City Tour on January 15th.  Register here:

http://www.salesforce.com/events/customer/local-user-groups/70130000000DQyYAAW.jsp

Salesforce.com is offering user group members a 20% discount* on all 3, 4 or 5 day training courses in January.  To take advantage of this offer, register online with promo code USGR20. Available courses are listed here.

Regards,

Cathy

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8:30-10:30 am

Westin Hotel in Waltham.

70 Third Avenue
Waltham, MA 02451
(781) 290-5600

Patrick Taylor from Salesforce.com will be presenting the new Features of the Winter 08 Release...which is a very big release indeed!

I am also pleased to announce that this meeting will be sponsored by LucidEra. LucidEra has been called "a must have tool for salesforce.com customers." In sales, trend is your friend, and LucidEra will help you get the answers and insights you need to succeed with business analytics that are simple to set up and simple to use.  In addition to a quick presentation of their product they will be providing us all with breakfast and have an iPhone to give away!