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If you clicked on the RSVP link in the December "Save the Date" email, you are officially registered for this meeting.  No further action is needed, except of course for you to come and participate!  :-)

The meeting will be held on Friday, Dec. 12th from 9am-1pm.  Our host will be MTS Systems Corporation at 14000 Technology Drive in Eden Prairie.  Thank you Connie Wussow for arranging this!

Please come and bring anyone else from your company who would benefit from the User Group.  If they are not already a member, please have them register first in the left-hand navigation panel on this site.

Agenda items so far:

• Group Therapy - Leveraging the Community
• Marketing vs. Administration - Finding ways to make our User Group meetings beneficial to both
• "Complex Selling Just Got Simple" - presentation by Michael Bonner from Pipeline Manager
  You can check out Pipeline Manager's AppExchange listing here.

Lunch will be provided by Pipeline Manager and we will break into Birds of a Feather Groups during lunch.  If you have any ideas for additional agenda items and/or Birds of a Feather topics, please email them to me.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Leyna Hoffer
Twin Cities Salesforce.com User Group Leader

Thank you to all who attended the meeting at Honeywell.  We had 70 attendees!  According to my records, that is the largest turnout we have had at any of our local User Group meetings.  That is awesome!  We all have so much we can learn from each other and your continued participation is greatly appreciated!

Also, thank you again to Terry Johnson and the entire Honeywell team for hosting this event and for taking such good care of us.  The venue was great, and having nametags for everyone was very helpful!

As promised, attached are the presentations from AppExtremes and from Salesforce.com Professional Services, as well as the "Getting the Most from Your Dreamforce Experience" powerpoint with the links to the Dreamforce sites.

Download appextremes_twin_cities_ug_16sep08.ppt

Download salesforce_consulting_services_twin_cities_user_group_091608.pdf

Download getting_the_most_out_of_your_dreamforce_experience.ppt

Download DreamForce_SessionNotes.doc

As soon as the date for the December User Group Meeting is determined, I will post it here as well as sending out an email with the details as to date, location, etc.  I will also be posting the GoToMeeting information for the Winter '09 demo that Heather Ramsdell will be conducting the first week in October as soon as the date is firmed up.  Please check back often for this information.

Thanks again to everyone who took time to attend the meeting, and a special thanks to those who presented.  I hope those who could not attend this time, will be able to join us in the near future.  The more the merrier!

Have a great day!

Leyna Hoffer - leyna_a_hoffer@bluecrossmn.com
Twin Cities Salesforce.com User Group Leader

A big thank you to Kathy Ecklund for her efforts as co-leader of the Twin Cities Salesforce.com Leader Group over the past 7 months!  I don't know what I would have done without her!

As many of you know, Kathy has taken a position as a Sr. Consultant at Model Metrics, a Salesforce.com Partner.  Because of this, she will no longer be able to be a co-leader of the User Group, however we welcome her as an active member and know she will continue to add value to our group.

Thanks for everything Kathy and best of luck to you in your new endeavor!

Also, my email address will be changing soon as I too will be changing companies.  I will be joining Blue Cross Blue Shield of MN starting Aug. 4, 2008 and will send an email with my new contact information soon after that time. 

Thanks in advance to all of you as I "go it alone" as User Group Leader. 

Leyna Hoffer
Twin Cities User Group Leader

Thank you to everyone who attended the Twin Cities salesforce.com User Group meeting - Wednesday, July 9th at Andersen Windows.  We had a great turnout, with 61 people in attendance and 3 really informative demonstrations by Demand Chain Systems, Reside, and Model Metrics.

Attached are pdfs of the presentations that were given by two of the Partners.  Check back soon for the third one.

Download Demand_Chain_Systems_SFDC_TCUG_7_10_08.pdf

Download model_metrics_mn_user_group_presentation_7908.pdf

Download reside_sfdc_users_group_v2_2.pdf

If you would like to have input into what band will perfom at the Dreamforce '08 Global Gala, please visit http://crmfyi.com/?p=135 and nominate a band.

And finally, mark your calendars for the next Twin Cities salesforce.com User Group meeting - tentatively scheduled for September 17th to be held at Honeywell.  Details will be emailed in early to mid-August.

Thanks again to everyone who took time to attend the meeting, and a special thanks to the Partners who presented.

Have a great summer

Leyna Hoffer - leyna.hoffer@ideas.com
Kathy Ecklund - kecklund@modelmetrics.com

  Heather Ramsdell has agreed to provide us with a Summer '08 Release Walkthru via GoToMeeting on Friday, June 27th from 9am to 11am.  Thank you Heather!  If you would like to attend, please RSVP by emailing either Leyna @-leyna.hoffer@ideas.com or Kathy@- kecklund@modelmetrics.com, and add this information to your calendar:

To join the meeting on Friday, June 27th at 9am:

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/join/692463495

Conference Call: 1-888-813-9442 6128198203#

Meeting ID: 692-463-495

Here is a link to release notes as well; https://na1.salesforce.com/help/doc/en/salesforce_summer08_release_notes.pdf.