Huntsville

Save the Date - Summer 09 Meeting Scheduled

All, we have scheduled the next Huntsville User's Group Meeting.

When:  Friday July 24th (8a to 10:30am)
Where: Intergraph Campus in Huntsville AL


April 09 Meeting

The next user's group meeting is just around the corner.  Jennifer Mullins at ADTRAN will be talking about her experiences using the new Appexchange, Ideas and other tools salesforce.com offers. 

Date:     Friday April 24th

Time:    8am to 11am CST  (Coffee and Pastries at 8, Program starts at 8:30)

Where:   ADTRAN's East Tower in Huntsville, AL


AGENDA:

8 - 8:30  Coffee and Pastries

8:30 - 8:45  Introductions, Hot topics from each company

8:45 - 9:00  Key Features from Spring 09 that are working for you.

9:00 - 9:45  AppExchange and Ideas Update - Are you using them to your advantage?

9:45 - 10:30  Breakout sessions  (System admin, marketing, developer, etc.

10:30  Wrap-up


We hope to see you there!

The HudsonAlpha Institute will be hosting the next Huntsville salesforce.com User's Group.  Please make sure and register for the Huntsville User's Group. 

Date:  Friday Jan. 16th
Time:  8 - 10:30am
Where:  Hudson Alpha Institute in Huntsville, AL

AGENDA:
8:00 - 8:30  Coffee and General Networking
8:30 - 9:00  Introductions, Discuss 2009 SFDC goals/challenges at each company
9:00 - 9:30  Presentations/Discussions
- HudsonAlpha Institute Overview; Plans to use SFDC
- Recent Lessons Learned from Thermal Scientific (Open Biosystems) 
- Spring 08 Release? 
9:30 - 10:00  Breakout Sessions (Admin, Marketing, Program Mgmt, Developer)
10:00 - 10:30 Tour of HudsonAlpha Institute
10:30  Depart

Winter 2009 Meeting

The next Huntsville User's Group meeting has been scheduled!

Date:  Friday Jan. 16th, 2009
Time:  8am to 10:30am (Coffee and Pastries at 8am; program starts at 8:30)
Where:  Hudson Alpha Complex (in Research Park behind ADTRAN)

Please reply with your ideas for the Agenda. 

September 2008 User Group Meeting

Where/When:  Avocent's HQ on Wednesday morning Sept. 24th from 8am til 11.

Look for your email on the details!  If you haven't join the group, hurry up and join now!

April 2008 Meeting at ADTRAN's HQ

Date:     Friday April 18th

Time:    8am to 11am CST  (Coffee and Pastries at 8, Program starts at 8:30)

Where:   ADTRAN's Corporate HQ in Huntsville, AL

If you haven't registered for the user's group yet, please register.

The agenda and directions will be sent later to all members.  If you have specific ideas for the agenda, please let me know

Jan. 2008 Meeting at Digium's HQ

Digium is excited to host the next Huntsville salesforce.com User's Group! The meeting will take place in the brand new Digium headquarters in Research Park.


Date:     Thursday January 10th

Time:    8am to 11am CST  (Coffee and Pastries at 8, Program starts at 8:30)

Where:   Digium's Corporate HQs in Huntsville, AL

Directions to Digium's new HQ:

Take the Old Madison Pike exit from Research Park Blvd.  Go west towards Madison.  Jan Davis Drive is the last major road on the right before exiting Research Park.  If the road goes down to 2 lanes, you have gone too far.  Digium is on Jan Davis drive between Old Madison Pike and Explorer Blvd.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=445+Jan+Davis+Dr,+Huntsville,+Madison,+Alabama+35806,+United+States&sll=34.716447,-86.691699&sspn=0.008854,0.016437&ie=UTF8&ll=34.716447,-86.691699&spn=0.008854,0.016437&z=16&iwloc=cent&om=1


The Agenda will focus on discussing the SFDC Winter and Spring '08 releases and on Digium's application of Eloqua (3rd party tool for demand creation).

Upcoming HSV User Group Events

Sept 17th. 6 to 8pm Dreamforce User Group Cocktails in the Expo Hall.  This will an informal mixer before the evening Global Gala

Oct. 24th - Users Group Meeting at Avocent.

Agenda:

8:30 - 9:00

Welcome and Introductions

(Coffee and Pastries)

Dreamforce Discussions

8:45 - 10:15

Territory Management

POS Importing (?)

Sales Forecasting

Demand Tools

Approvals???

10:15 - 10:30

Q &A and Wrap-up

Next 3 User Group Meetings Planned

The date for our next Huntsville's User Group (HUG) meeting will be July 25th!!!    Mark your calendars!

Intergraph is hosting this event on their campus in Huntsville (Details to be provided in July).  Thank you Faun and the Intergraph team! 

Agenda:  Wednesday, July 25th

8:30 - 9:00     Welcome and Introductions  (Coffee and Pastries)

9:00 - 10:30   Integration with salesforce.com and other systems

                       3rd party tools and plugins

10:45-11:00   Dreamforce coming in Sept.                        

Hosts for future events:
Avocent - Oct. 2007
Digium - Jan. 2007


We welcome you to add your thoughts, comments, feedback here so we can continue our networking as well as the development of this user group with your insights and suggestions!!

Announcing the Huntsville, AL User Group

Welcome to the Huntsville, AL User Group!

We are very excited to announce the creation of the Huntsville, AL User Group.  David Dutton from Adtran has been the gracious one to step up and be the group leader.  He will help make this user group a valuable resource where you can network, share ideas, and overcome challenges. Feel free to submit any comments to get the group started off!