Hi all,

we have all been invited to join an Online webinar which looks at a system called ilinc. Interested in potentially using such a system to broadcast meeting presentations, but would like your feedback on what you think of the system.

They are running the Session in the states, but anyone can log in ( you just need to be free for an hour from 7pm on the 20th Nov.)

I'll be attending. Interested to see how this system integrates with Salesforce!  Hope to see you all there.

To register for the webinar click on the link below

November 20 webinar   www.ilinc.com/dreamforce1
The webinar will teach Salesforce users how iLinc web and video conferencing integrates to create and capture more leads. It will also demonstrate that iLinc provides the best web conferencing solution available.


 

This in from Salesforce.

a lot of our members did the last  course and the general consensus is its worth 10 times what they are charging us for it. Having done the course I would agree.

If you want to get the most of yoru salesforce system.  do this course
YES  it is in Staines, but that just makes staines twice as cool as it was before!

regards

Ciaran

We are delighted to let you know our Nonprofit Administrator Essentials Workshop is taking place on Monday 05 January 2009 in our new salesforce.com offices in Staines.

Places on this course are only available to nonprofit organisations for a discounted rate of £300 (standard rate is £1,950).

For details on the course click here. Note this Nonprofit Admin Workshop will have examples appropriate for nonprofit organisations.

To avail of this offer please respond to me directly and I will book you a place. Places are limited and allocated on a first come basis!

Best wishes

Sara

With far too much time traveling on trains yesterday, I had the time to put the finishing touches to my interview with Eoin Ryan from Saus who I spoke with last week about their migration from Outlook to Google apps for a 40 user organisation. Eoin explains how the clean interface and collaborative tools have really improved collaborative computing between users spread around the world.

I have also posted the recording of yesterdays presentation for the group on Google Adwords for Salesforce.  Its a large file at 68 meg, but if you missed the session and want to catch up, you can virtually be there.  Worth the download I hope for both seasoned Google Adwords users and those who havent yet dabbled, but who are wanting to learn about this great way to advertise.

If you want to subscribe to the podcast, we recommend using Apple's Itunes which is free and available in mac and PC flavours.  It acts as a podcast aggregator, and will download new content seamlessly in the background once you have subscribed.  ( essential considering some of the large file sizes) So if you don't like waiting for video content to download, make use of an aggregator like Itunes and have that do all the hard work for you, seamlessly gathering content for you to watch and listen to on demand.When you play a podcast in Itunes  try clicking on the small graphic window ( bottom Left)  it should play full screen. In Itunes go to Advanced drop down and select subscribe.

Think this all sounds a bit of a hassle? - Its worth it. In Itunes you will find all manner of stimulating podcasted content. Highly recommend AI Digitals "Internet Marketing" which has been a real bible to me. The Guardians Tech Weekly is great as well. If anyone has any other fav Podcasts, please post up a comment to this thread.

to subscribe / listen to the UK non profit Podcast Use the following link
  http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheUkNonProfitPodcast

You can download the files posted on the podcast by simply following the link above, but a podcast aggregator like Itunes takes  all the work out of it.

If any one has an Iphone or video Ipod, would love to know how these files play.

If you found this content useful, please-  Comment or Email a friend with the feed link and get them to subscribe:-) The links below allow you to play the content in a web browser, but beware. if you dont have a fast web connection it will be slow, and the image sizes are not very big.

Preview Our latest podcast content

Well the presentation on Google Adwords for Salesforce is done, and the names list of all of you who emailed to say you are coming has been handed into security :-)

My thanks to Lisa who has been working hard behind the  scenes at CAN to make this all possible.

Looking forward to it
see you all at 2pm

Remember its at the  London Bridge venue on the PDF I sent around.

For those of you not able to make it, I will be podcasting it all.

Have also recorded a great interview on Google Apps from a user in Ireland who has set it up for 40 users. Will post that on the podcast as soon as i have time to upload it.

Ciaran :-)

Low and behold, exactly a week before my big presentation on Google adwords for salesforce, those lovely people in Salesforce.com marketing send me an email offering free credit and promoting google adwords for Salesforce.  and rightly so, its a fab product.

Really nice of Salesforce to support my presentation like this.

Thanks Guys, loving your work...
:-)

here in case you didnt get it is that promotion..
We’ve teamed up with Google to offer our customers a free trial to discover how they can use Google AdWords to drive more traffic to their websites and grow their business online.  Salesforce customers who buy/register can take advantage of this great offer and receive £50 of free advertising with Google AdWords.*

What is AdWords?
Google AdWords is the world's largest online advertising programme and gives you access to millions of UK users who are actively looking for what you're selling.  AdWords helps connect you with potential customers in the right place, and at precisely the right time by placing targeted ads against search results on Google.

If you sign up for a new Google AdWords account today from salesforce.com, you will receive £50 to spend on advertising courtesy of salesforce.com and Google. And the best part is that Salesforce for Google AdWords will tell you exactly which ads, keywords, and campaigns are generating leads, pipeline, and revenue.

So what are you waiting for?
Simply navigate to the Google AdWords Setup Tab within your Salesforce system.
- or -
Take a product tour.

Thanks for the feedback on my invite to last months meeting which went out last night!  Discovering how easy it is to get templates mixed up when mass emailing lots of people who have better things to do than play with their email inbox. ( apologies...)  Have taken to chanting..." Aways use the preview button before sending out  mass emails......Aways use the preview button before sending out  mass emails......Aways use the preview button before sending out  mass emails." repeatedly as penance and will continue to do so all this morning.

For those of you just lurking on the group blog, our next meeting will be:-

Tuesday 21st October
from 2:00PM to 03:30 PM
Location:CAN's London Bridge facility.

For the eagle eyed among you this is a slightly later than previously published time. Its there to accommodate some slightly complicated travel and meeting itinerary.  We have the venue until 4pm for those of you who would like to network afterwards.

We will be looking at Google Adwords for Salesforce. If you would like to attend please email me with your name and I will add you to the " people allowed in by security" list, and send you a map etc...

See you there

Ciaran

Hi guys,

well on my never ending quest to seek out ways to help us all get more our of our Salesforce usage, I came across this.  My thanks to those awfully nice people at Vertical response.

Its a little run through of cross object reports. If you havent come across these- they are just fab.  They enable you to report on information stored in various objects in salesforce enablign you to pull together the info you need outside of the standard info options offered in the reports wizard.

Magic.

How to Create a Cross Object Report

Check it out here

Hi all,

Well its time I pulled my finger out and set an agenda for the next couple of meetings. at Our next meeting on 21st October The focus is going to be on "Salesforce things Google"  We will have a presentation looking into Google Adwords for Salesforce, and I am currently putting the feelers out for a speaker on google Apps for salesforce.  - Anyone out there wanting to share how they use either of these online marvels, Please get in touch.

For our meeting on 9th December The focus / theme is going to be making use of email and looking at some of the dynamic services available which extend standard functionality.  Interested in contributions from any of the group who make use of email services for marketing and fundraising activities.

so that takes us up to the end of the year.

all interested in contributing, please email me at
ciaran@uksa.org

I look forward to hearing from you

c. :-)

Issue 2 of our non profit group pod cast is out now.

It's a bit of an experiment requested by members.  We recorded this months meeting.  I have built an enhanced pod cast from the result, mixing it with the presentation slides that were delivered.

My thanks once again to David from Astadia for agreeing to be recorded.

>>Click Here

Also in itunes if you search for Salesforce in their podcast directory.

If you get a copy of Itunes ( which is free) you can subscribe to the podcast so it just gets delivered to you when it goes online.

Working at the moment on some content on Coda to go for Salesforce and Google apps.  Watch this space :-)

regards

Ciaran

Group member Nicole has stepped up to the challenge and posted an Idea on the ideas exchange.  As requested at the last group meeting, please support other group members by voting on the elements they post on the ideas exchange.

The idea is...:-)