First of all, a big thank you to everyone who attended yesterday's meeting; it was nice to see another good sized turn-out!  

Here's a quick recap on what we covered:

• Reminder of the next few meetings scheduled-
  
  • September 23^rd
  • Dreamforce - those in attendance, we'll get something put together at the event for a brief meeting (Possibly during one of the lunches)
    
  • January 20^th, 2010
• We will work to schedule informal meetings on the off months during an after work Happy Hour to allow more time for networking - dates TBA.  (Does anyone have suggestions for a good location and/or preferred evening?)
  
• Dashboards
  • Daryl Spreiter, Salesforce.com CSM covered three sample dashboards that they use.  Click here to download copies of them: https://na2.salesforce.com/sfc/play/index.jsp?oid=00D300000000bUn&d=05D4000000001nE
  • Jim Thompson also showed several dashboards he has built and gave the group a great tutorial on editing and customizing dashboards. 
    
• Jim also spent quite a bit of time in the drivers seat reviewing a few tips and tricks which was very informative for many of us - thanks Jim!
  
• A brief reminder to join the Portland User Group on LinkedIn; please click here to join: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1967601
  • As you search the Idea Exchange and find something worthwhile or post one of your own, please add it to the discussion board for our group that way you'll be sure to get more votes for it.  
  • Please be sure to direct Salesforce questions to the Salesforce Community boards rather than the LinkedIn group board.
    
• Dreamforce! 
  • User group members are eligable for a $100 discount which can be applied towards the current early bird discounted price of $699; use code CDUSER when you register at http://www.salesforce.com/dreamforce/

Thanks to our presenters and everyone who had questions - we had some excellent discussions.  

The next meeting is going to be geared more as a lunch and learn session with tips, tricks and best practices.  Start thinking now of questions you may have and feel free to send them to me to store for the meeting.  The plan is to have a few folks take over the drivers seat and show what they have done or what they are having problems with.  The purpose of this group is for all of us to learn from each other, and hopefully we'll get the next few meetings pointed in that direction. 

Be on the look-out for an email announcing a more informal meeting in August once we have a date, time and place nailed down.

Thanks again!  

Melynda