For those of you who were not able to attend DreamForce this year, Salesforce.com has recorded webcasts for many of the sessions presented at DreamForce.  Please feel free to visit the links posted below to learn from this year's DreamForce.

DreamForce Webcasts Home Page:

http://www.salesforce.com/dreamforce/DF08/. 

Watch the Archived Webcasts & Track Sessions:

• View all the top-rated track sessions now in the Dreamforce Success Center
  
  
• Monday, November 3rd, 9:00 am (PST)
  Watch Monday's Keynote featuring salesforce.com's New Cloud Computing Technology,  as well as Facebook and amazon.com relationships.
• Tuesday, November 3rd, 9:00 am (PST)
  Tuesday's Keynote featured salesforce.com's New CRM Product Lines, as well as Google and Dell.
• Tuesday, November 3rd, 3:15 pm (PST)
  Tuesday's afternoon keynote featured featuring Larry Brilliant, the director of Google.org, who gave a tremendous talk on philanthropy.

Best Regards,

David Gildar, DFG Solutions

Phoenix Salesforce.com User Group Leader

At our October 21 Phoenix User Group meeting, we had a lively but small group turnout again. My thanks go to Joy Daniel from Morris, Hall & Kinghorn (Law Firm), for hosting our meeting at her facility. Also I thank Brad Phillips, from Salesforce.com, for his presentation of "Winter '09 New Feature Highlights", and Ethan Zoubek, from ExactTarget, for his presentation on "1:1 Marketing with Email". If you would like to download a copy of either of these slide presentations, please click on these links:

Download winter_09_new_features.ppt

Download marketing_with_email.ppt 

Our next meeting is planned for sometime in January. We plan to have a platform evangelist from Salesforce.com present an introduction to VisualForce. I am also currently seeking volunteers and/or suggestions for other potential presentation topics for January.

I am also always eager to hear from any members who would be willing to share a brief case study of any significant success achieved within their own organization using Salesforce.com.

Best Regards,

David Gildar, DFG Solutions

Phoenix User Group Leader

dgildar@dfgsolutions.com

Date:  October 21, 2008

Time:  12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Location:  Morris, Hall & Kinghorn (Law Firm)

3300 N. Central Ave., Suite 900
Phoenix, AZ 85012

Sandwiches will be served.

This meeting will feature these presentations:

• Salesforce.com Winter '09 New Features Highlights, presented by Brad Phillips, Salesforce.com.
• 1:1 Marketing with Email, presented by Ethan Zoubek, ExactTarget. 
• LinkedIn with Salesforce.com, presented by Katja Godenitz, CopperState Business Systems. 

Please RSVP to David Gildar at dgildar@dfgsolutions.com with "will attend" if you have not already done so.
Seating will be limited to RSVP's.

Parking Instructions:

The 3300 Tower is located on the southwest corner of Central and Osborn (south of Indian School). You can access the parking garage from 2nd Ave and Osborn, head south, and follow road around to left. The garage is the first garage straight ahead, be sure to park in the one marked “3300 Tower” (we cannot validate for any other garage). You can park in any “Visitor” or non-marked space. Make your way to the building and use the left bank of elevators to go to the 9th floor. We will be meeting in the first room on your left as you exit the elevators.

At our August 26 Phoenix User Group meeting, we had a lively but small group turnout again. My thanks go to Joy Daniel from  Morris, Hall & Kinghorn, for presenting Conga Merge, and to Brad Phillips from Salesforce.com for a live demo of Access Hoovers. If you would like to download a copy of these slide presentations, or my own regarding PeopleImport, please click on these links:

Conga Merge presentation: Download conga_mail_merge_presentation.ppt

Access Hoover's presentation: Download HooversUserGroupPreso.ppt

PeopleImport presentation: Download peopleimport_presentation.ppt

For our next meeting, sometime in October, we plan to have one of our members discuss demand generation using Salesforce.com and ExactTarget, an AppExchange product. We also plan to present new feature highlights in the Winter '09 release. For our next meeting we plan to try a new location somewhere in central Phoenix to attract more members who work closer to that area.

I am also always eager to hear from any members who would be willing to share a brief case study of any significant success achieved within their own organization using Salesforce.com.

Best Regards,

David Gildar, Phoenix User Group Leader

DFG Solutions

dgildar@dfgsolutions.com

Date:  August 26, 2008

Time:  6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Location:  Scottsdale Mustang Library (Auditorium)

10101 N 90th St
Scottsdale, AZ 85258

Light refreshments will be served.

This meeting will focus on AppExchange and include the following member demonstrations of several popular AppExchange applications:

• Access Hoover's, presented by Brad Phillips, Salesforce.com.
• Conga Merge, presented by Joy Daniel, Morris, Hall & Kinghorn 
• People Import, presented by David Gildar, DFG Solutions.

Please RSVP to David Gildar at dgildar@dfgsolutions.com with "will attend" if you have not already done so.

At our June 17 Phoenix User Group meeting, we had a lively but small group turnout again.  Many thanks to Brad Phillips from Salesforce.com for presenting slides and a live demo of many new features in the Summer '08 release of Salesforce.com. If you would like to download a copy, please click on this link:

Download summer_08_highlights.ppt

I was also pleased to present slides and a live demo showing Apex Data Loader functionality. To download my slides please click here:

Download apex_data_loader_presentation_by_dfg_solutions.ppt

For our next meeting (sometime in August) we plan to present an overview of the top five or ten most frequently downloaded AppExchange applications. Any member who would like to present a success story at our next meeting regarding your favorite AppExchange app, please contact me.

I am also always eager to hear from any members who would be willing to share a brief case study of any significant success achieved within their own organization using Salesforce.com.

Best Regards,

David Gildar, Phoenix User Group Leader

DFG Solutions
dgildar@dfgsolutions.com

At our inaugural Phoenix User Group meeting, we had a lively but small group turnout - 9 persons attended, including myself and our local Salesforce.com Account Executive and Sr. Sales Engineer.  Many thanks to Brad Phillips from Salesforce.com for preparing and presenting a great slide show highlighting some of the new features in Spring '08. If you would like to download a copy, please click on this link:

Download phoenix_sfdc_user_group_meeting_spring_08_features_presentation.ppt .

During the meeting, we introduced ourselves and had brief discussions of members' interests and  challenges.  But most of all, this was a get acquainted meeting, with a discussion of Spring 08 features, and potential sponsors for future meetings (e.g. AppExchange business partners). Various suggestions were made for possible topics for the next meeting. The general consensus of the group was to highlight more feature tips and techniques, and share case studies of challenges and solutions. 

Since the turnout for the first meeting was light, I'd also be interested in any suggestions from members who were not able to attend regarding suggested topics for future meetings. More importantly, I am eager to hear from any members who would be willing to share a brief case study of some challenge or success achieved within their own organization using Salesforce.com. Also, please suggest any vendor sponsors you might like have at our next meeting. We have not yet scheduled the next meeting data, pending members feedback.

Regards,

Dave Gildar, Phoenix User Group Leader