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DreamForce Webcasts - Nov. 2008

For those of you who were not able to attend DreamForce this year or attended and were just too busy to attend all the sessions you wanted to, 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

Keynotes:
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.

Leyna Hoffer
Twin Cities Salesforce.com User Group Leader

Sign up and take a Salesforce.com Administrator Class in December and get a $100 American Express Gift Card just in time for the holidays!

This promotion applies to the following classes:

ADM 201 Classes

Dec 8-11 Detroit
Dec 15-18 Chicago
Dec 15-18 Minneapolis
Jan 5-8 Indianapolis

ADM 301 Classes

Dec 8-12 Detroit

ADM 201 for Enterprise Edition and Unlimited Edition-4 Days
$3,000** The Certification Exam is included in the price of the course

Who Should Take this Course?

Administration Essentials is designed for new system administrators responsible for the setup, configuration, and maintenance of their organizations' Salesforce applications. Other groups that benefit from this course include power users, sales operations, and IT managers. Administrators of Unlimited or Enterprise Edition should take ADM 201; administrators of Professional Edition should take ADM 202. Register here .  Remember to include the promo code: MMAGC1209

ADM 301 for Enterprise Edition and Unlimited Edition-5 Days
$4,000** The Certification Exam is included in the price of the course

Who Should Take this Course?

This hands-on course is designed for advanced administrators who have used Salesforce for at least 3 months and/or have completed the ADM 201 Administration Essentials course. Although the course covers advanced Salesforce components that require coding at a high level, no coding experience is necessary for the hands-on exercises. Register here . Remember to include the promo code: MMAGC1209

Need more info? Call 312-587-3037 or visit www.SFDCtraining.com .

** promos cannot be combined with any other offers.

Need a Web Conference Tool that truly Integrates with SFDC?

If your current web and video conferencing solution lacks collaboration, online training and a marketing /sales integration-tool that would allow you to work smarter, not harder, join the iLinc and Salesforce Integration webinar to learn about iLinc's functionality.

Presenter: Frank Gartland, VP Product and Technology, iLinc
When: Thursday, November 20, 2008, 1:00pm Central (11:00am Pacific)
Duration: 60 minutes, includes Live Q&A

Sign up today at www.ilinc.com/dreamforce.

Give iLinc a chance to show you how web and video conferencing can be:

* Highly Secure

* Easy to use

* Affordable

* Dependable

* Feature-rich

Sign up today at www.ilinc.com/dreamforce for the iLinc and Salesforce
Integration webinar and experience the difference for yourself.

Have questions? Please call or email Barry Duncan 602-718-1592 bduncan@ilinc.com

December User Group Meeting to be held at MTS

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