We had a great meeting today.  Thanks for Relationship Marketing for hosting and to Salesforce.com for the food.  We missed a few of you due to weather and last minute scheduling conflicts, hope to see you next time.  There was a good discussion around people's questions and I think everyone walked away with new ideas and insights.  One item discussed was a free tool from Informatica that allows you to manipulate Salesforce data outside of the system. We will definitely build in time for open discussion into every meeting.  Brian Connell also gave a informative demo on how Astadia uses Salesforce internally.  Brian offered to do a mini admin training at our next meeting so we will work out the details on that.

I am thinking of having the next meeting the first or second week of March.  Specifically, that would make it March 4 or 11 over lunch.  What I need to know is if that will work for the majority of people.  Also, if you are able to host the meeting please let me know.  I have a tentative schedule below of what the meeting could look like. Please email me (joshv@fostergrp.com) if you are available on one or both of these dates and indicate as such.  Look forward to the next meeting and meeting more of you.

March Meeting Schedule:

Network and Lunch

Demo of Spring 09 Features/Mini Admin Training

Open Discussion (Potential to break out into functional groups, Sales, Marketing, Admin, etc.)

Josh Van Heukelom