Sign up and take a Salesforce.com Administrator Class in December and get a $100 American Express Gift Card just in time for the holidays!

Promotion applies to the following classes:

ADM 201 Classes
Dec 8-11 Detroit
Dec 15-18 Chicago
Dec 15-18 Minneapolis

ADM 301 Classes
Dec 8-12 Detroit

ADM 201 for Enterprise Edition and Unlimited Edition-4 Days
$3,000** The Certification Exam is included in the price of the course
Who Should Take this Course?
Administration Essentials is designed for new system administrators responsible for the setup, configuration, and maintenance of their organizations' Salesforce applications. Other groups that benefit from this course include power users, sales operations, and IT managers. Administrators of Unlimited or Enterprise Edition should take ADM 201; administrators of Professional Edition should take ADM 202. Register here. Remember to include the promo code: MMAGC1209

ADM 301 for Enterprise Edition and Unlimited Edition-5 Days
$4,000** The Certification Exam is included in the price of the course
Who Should Take this Course?
This hands-on course is designed for advanced administrators who have used Salesforce for at least 3 months and/or have completed the ADM 201 Administration Essentials course. Although the course covers advanced Salesforce components that require coding at a high level, no coding experience is necessary for the hands-on exercises. Register here. Remember to include the promo code: MMAGC1209

Need more info? Call 312-587-3037 or visit www.SFDCtraining.com.

** promos cannot be combined with any other offers. If you should have any questions please contact Shannon.

Shannon R. Cunningham
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If you weren't able to attend DreamForce this year, all the presentation have been made available at the Salesforce Community site.

The developer network also provides technical details and examples on integrating with Amazon, Facebook and Force.com Sites.

Salesforce developer network has an excellent tutorial on how you can integrate Google Visualization API with Salesforce data to provide users with a new more visual way to look at their data.

It uses the new Force.com Visualization toolkit that is hosted on Google's Code Share site.

This really shows the power and flexability of cloud computing.

Please visit the Salesforce developer site for information on the new Winter 09 release.
This site also has a free webinar that highlights some of the features with examples of how to implement them.

Stay tuned for more updates from Dreamforce and the date for the next user group meeting.

Due to the upcoming Dreamforce 2008 event, the user group meeting that was scheduled for October has been cancelled.
Please revisit this page for when the meeting will be held.

Meeting at

9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. (8:30 doughnuts and coffee) at AAA Michigan HQ in Dearborn.

Preliminary agenda -

- Winter 09 Release

- Dreamforce

Bluewolf is now offering subscription based support and development. See the article in The Wall Street journal.
This is taking the whole notion of SaaS (Software as a service), PaaS (Platform as a service) and now implementing support staff as a service. They also are offering custom development (APEX, VisualForce). It will be interesting to see how this develops and if more companies offer these services specifically for cloud computing.

CRM FYI has a great write up on a tool that many of you may find useful. Home Tab Messaging (an app exchange application) allows you to setup messages with start and end dates and also what profiles the message should appear for.
Please check out the article here.
Let me know if you find articles like this useful or if you have any other ideas that you would like to share with the community

Salesforce now has certification available for administrators and soon for developers.
Go to the SFDC Certification page to find out more details and sign up for training courses. You can also sign up to be notified when developer certification is available.

Today's meeting at Compuware was well attended and had some great content.

• Salesforce Mobile was discussed with an example of how it was designed and developed with GMAC. Please Go to Salesforce Mobile Blog for more information.
• Workflows and approvals were demo'ed and discussed by Peter Martin of Polk and Kevin Edelmann of Delta Dental. Visit www.cairlinn.com for more information on the approval process
• Summer 08 new features were briefly discussed. Please visit SuccessForce for more information

Some other items that were mentioned during the lively discussions were

• VisualForce pages to PDF
• Image formula example
• Get free developer edition account
• Salesforce Edition comparison

I would like this user group site to become a central source of information and links to other sites of interest. So if you have any ideas for topics to cover or sites of interest, please contact me  at cairlinn@gmail.com
 

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