Rich Berkman from Kadient, Inc. will be conducting a free sales playbook workshop in Minneapolis on June 2nd.  This workshop will be education focused on how to create killer sales playbooks.

Link to Workshop Overview/Registration:
http://www.kadient.com/form.aspx?id=661

Link to download sales playbook white paper:
http://www.kadient.com/form.aspx?id=621

The Twin Cities is one of the top innovative markets for salesforce.com and Cloud computing.  To continue to fill your innovative bucket with more knowledge and at a 20% discount - keep reading! 

Great Candidates for ADM 201:

-Existing Admin and haven’t taken the ADM 201 class yet or it’s been a few years since you’ve attended the session

-Now is a great time to invest in your salesforce.com toolkit for you and for your company!

In addition to an outstanding full agenda, learn about these "Three Cheers" new release features:

• Built in Visio diagram of work flow approvals that auto-fill as you build your workflow
• Enhanced Charting Tool for Dashboards
• Profile Change Tracking

Interested? 

Sign up today with the via https://www.salesforce.com/form/contact/contactme_adm201.jsp?d=70130000000EFSJ

Set Sail with Summer 09 with salesforce.com

Need more info?  Contact:
Shannon Cunningham, Practice Director Education Services
scunningham@modelmetrics.com
312-994-8067

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Those of you who attended the recent User Group meeting received a flyer advertisiing the upcoming AA-ISP Summit for Inside Sales Professionals.  For those of you who were unable to attend and are interested in a conference where Inside Sales Leaders come together to learn, share and network, Download AA-ISP_Summit flyer.

To receive a 10% discount on single registration fees, please use code AAISP-LS10 during the on-line registration process.  Event and registration information can be found at www.aa-isp.org.  (This promo is for new registrations only, and cannot be used as a discount or refund on participants already registered).

What an awesome turnout for our meeting on May 6th...  97 attendees!  I know that's a record for our group, and I'm told that it is a record for all SFDC User Groups.  That is a direct reflection on all of you that attend regularly and participate in building agendas that are interesting and relevant.  THANK YOU!

We had a customer presentation by John Reagan, Director of Digital Marketing at FICO (FairIssac) on Building Customer Communities.  He showed how with the help of a local SFDC Partner, Reside they built their online community in approximately 8 weeks.

We were also very fortunate to have two Product Managers from SFDC at our meeting; Marco Casalaina and Kyle Chrsitensen. They presented the Service Cloud roadmap, focusing on the social networking communities functionality (Facebook, Twitter, etc.).

Lastly, we had a brief presentation from Adam Caplan, CEO of ModelMetrics, a SFDC Partner.  Adam focused on the work that ModelMetrics has done, leveraging the Force.com platform, the speed of development and how quickly deployment can occur.  There were some technical difficulties during Adam's presentation, so for those of you who wanted to see/hear more, here is his presentation from the Chicago Cloudforce (7 minute video).

A BIG thank you to Adam and his team for sponsoring the breakfast for our meeting!

With all the great presentations, we ran a bit over on time and were not able to view the video on how to navigate the new and improved AppExchange.  Therefore, I am including the video for your viewing enjoyment.

We had many new faces at the meeting, and several people approached me at the Cloudforce event afterward to inquire about joining the group.  Looking forward to seeing all the new people at the next meeting, as well as all of the "old faithfuls".  The next meeting will be in mid-July at the Eden Prairie Community Center.  More details to follow in the coming month.  Stay tuned!

Leyna Hoffer
Twin Cities Salesforce.com User Group Leader