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