Looks like we are on track for a November 2008 meeting in Gaithersburg, MD.    We'll have Andrew Lawlor speaking about his recent Quote to Invoice automation process.  Details to follow!

Sheila

Hello - we've scheduled our next meeting - 10/15/2008 - our speaker will be Doug Sharpe from ACF Solutions.  Please contact me if you'd like to attend and need directions.  You can also join the sfdc user group by visiting the sfdc community force page. 

Sheila
sheila.marks@proquest.com

Hi
We're in the process of planning a fall 08 sfdc user group meeting.  We're looking for speakers and locations - so please get in touch!!  I'd really like this to be a more interactive group - so tell fellow sfdc users and lets get started!!!

Thanks
Sheila
sheila.marks@proquest.com

What a great Kickoff 2008 meeting for our group!!!  Special thanks to our host  - Arlington Economic Development  - Mike, AJ & Cindy.  Big thank you as well to our sponsor - Buan Consulting! 
We had several folks volunteer to speak / host future meetings and hope to get one on the calendar for late April or early May.  Watch this space for details!!  Thanks Again!  Sheila

March 3 2008 is our first sfdc user group meeting for 2008!!!!!!  We're so excited to get back on track and get to know our new and not so new members.  Join us if you're able!!!  Please register for our Wash DC group and then RSVP to me!!  Thanks and hope to see you!!!!!!!!!!

The Reston User Group is being renamed to better reflect the local area.  From now on, it will be called the Washington, DC Metro User Group.  We will eventually change the URL to reflect the name change.  Plans are afoot to have a meeting early in the New Year.

Happy Holidays to everyone!

Plans are underway to re-energize the Reston/Washington DC User Group.  We are looking for a local customer to co-lead the group and hope to hold a meeting in January '08.  Look for more information and a chance to network with users in the area at the City Tour event on November 15, 2007.

We hope you will get involved!

Hi everyone!  Our first user group meeting was a great kickoff to the Tyson's Corner (Washington D.C.) user group.  We had salesforce.com users from a variety of industries and at different adoption levels within their organizations.

Topics that we discussed included:

• Outlook integration with salesforce.com
• Security and sharing rules, especially with team selling
• How to use leads and when they should be converted to accounts, contacts, and opportunities
• Business rules processing and workflow

We also discussed enhancements to salesforce.com that people would like to see.

Next Meeting
The next release of salesforce.com is coming soon and among many other features it will include Custom Tabs and Objects for Professional Edition users.  Since this functionality will be new to many, we want to have our next meeting focus on these new capabilities.  Check out all the great features coming soon at the CRMSuccess Best Practices website.

We do not have a meeting location yet and are seeking a volunteer to host an evening meeting on May 23, 24, or 25 for approximately 10-15 people.  If you'd like to volunteer, please click here to contact Sean Murphy directly. 

Keep checking back here for additional details on our next meeting's date, location, and agenda.  We look forward to seeing you there!

Save the date for the next Tyson's Corner user group meeting!  Many thanks to Dawn Scardina for volunteering a space for us to meet.  The meeting will be held at Federal Solutions Group at 6:00 PM.

Location Details
8618 Westwood Center Drive
Vienna, Virginia
Suite 315
phone 703.734.9222

The agenda for this meeting will be as follows:

• Introduction by the Tyson's Corner user group leader, Sean Murphy
• Exchanging contact information
• Tyson's Corner new feature requests (for the next major release)
• Open forum ideas for next meeting agenda, additional meeting locations, or the group process in general

Please send your RSVP to your user group leader, Sean Murphy.  Hope to see you there!!