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Obama’s Jobs Speech: Persuading the Reluctant - Story From: The QuickBase Blog. Get more connected. Be more productive.

Last night, President Barack Obama asked Congress to approve a nearly half-trillion-dollar plan called the American Jobs Act, which seeks to bolster the economy by cutting payroll taxes for employers and employees, aiding the long-term unemployed, and improving the country’s physical infrastructure. “You should pass this jobs plan right away,” the president said about 20 [...] Related posts:

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A Little Help from My Friends - Story From: CRMFYI

In a demonstration of community and collaboration, Mike Gerholdt and I have created a blog post / demo video of utilizing inline Visualforce to display rich text info in standard page layouts without using fields. →

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Small Businesses Crave Marketing Automation

With yesterday’s news of Constant Contact acquiring contact management software provider Bantam Live, I thought I’d share our take on what this means for small businesses. We appreciate what Constant Contact has done. Their software introduces beginners to basic email marketing. They’ve helped teach thousands of small businesses to use the email channel simply to [...]

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Citizen Journalist: Who’s Yours? - Story From: The Official Infusionsoft Blog

Every company has a story to tell. The more day-in-the-life, authentic and journalistic the story is, the more chance you have for maximum impact on your audience. So when it comes time to creating content for your business’ blog or an email newsletter and you’re staring at a blank page, you may find it helpful [...]

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When Hit or Miss Research Just Doesn’t Cut It in Business, You Need To Try Gist - Story From: CRMFYI

When Shane Mac at Gist approached me for a quick guest blog post on how I use Gist, I jumped at the opportunity. It’s easy to talk about companies and products that make your life better. Today my post hit their blog and you can certainly read more about it here. Just as a bonus feature for Salesforce enthusiasts, I figured I’d give you a couple more insights on why I like Gist. A one-sentence description of Gist is “Aggregated … →

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Geo Got Me Excited on a Monday Morning - Story From: CRMFYI

A free app from the Salesforce AppExchange called Find Nearby Accounts helps you geolocate records from Salesforce, view them on Google Maps, find other Accounts, Contacts or Leads nearby, and provide driving directions in one easy package. →

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The Day the Earth was Chatterized - Story From: CRMFYI

Can you think of a significant day in the history of software? I’m looking for a day that a single company changed the way millions of people do business and made them more productive. I’m guessing there have been a few; but honestly none of them quickly come to mind. From this point forward though, June 22, 2010 ought to stick in your mind as “The Day the Earth was Chatterized. “ Salesforce Chatter is a collaboration platform for business … →

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I Need You; to Join The Salesforce Channel Community - Story From: CRMFYI

If you follow me on Twitter, it’s hard to miss my regular status updates like,  “21 videos were posted to The Salesforce Channel today,” but what’s that all about? The Salesforce Channel is a website where I curate Salesforce videos from all over the Internet into one place so you don’t have to do the searching. My motto is, “Your single source for Salesforce video.” I found that while many videos about Salesforce.com exist in large repositories like YouTube, searching … →

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The Higher Ed Cloud; Studentforce + Chatter = Brilliant - Story From: CRMFYICRMFYI

Today’s guest post is by Ed Schlesinger, better known as @studentforcenow on Twitter. Ed is a father and a businessman who has an incredible vision for the possibilities of cloud computing to help higher education. His brainchild, Studentforce is a unique portal for universities which connects students to faculty and administration to everyone. With the announcement of Chatter, Ed immediately saw the amazing potential that Chatter would have on Studentforce and I want you to hear what he’s poured his …

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Chatter Takes a Starring Role with Cloud 2 and the New ChatterExchange - Story From: CRM FYICRM FYI

The future of business applications is upon us. It’s a world where your data comes alive, those who log into your applications are people, not just users, your team’s past work is leveraged into future solutions and even proactively fed to those who need it, and you truly collaborate with not just your direct coworkers, but people from across the company in a way never before possible. This world is Cloud 2 and it’s not imaginary; it’s the reality that …

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Teach Those Old Dashboards of Yours a New Trick - Story From: CRM FYI

Today I discovered a quick little tweak that can make your dashboards make more sense. It’s really simple, yet makes a big impact on reading the data. When you see dashboard tables with “Record Count” on them, it’s not completely intuitive what kind of records you’re talking about. I found a simple way to relabel [...]

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Be a Hero to Your Users - Story From: CRM FYI

This week I had a chance to write a guest blog post for the Salesforce AppExchange. I chose to write about utilizing networks to become a hero to your Salesforce users. It’s not hard, it really doesn’t take that much time, and in the beginning, you can even start out by just listening in. No [...]

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Salesforce Chatter Goes Private Beta for 100 Customers - Story From: CRM FYI

Amid all the hoopla around Google Buzz, Salesforce is making some buzz themselves in the Enterprise space with the announcement of a Chatter private beta to 100 customers today. When Salesforce began looking for customers to start kicking the tires on Chatter, the response was overwhelming. More than 2,500 companies enthusiastically volunteered for the beta. [...]

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Salesforce Setup; Now Even Easier - Story From: CRM FYI

Staples may have the corner on that “Easy button” thing, but Salesforce now has an “Easy box.” It’s called Setup Enhancer for Salesforce and it’s about to make navigating the Setup tree a whole lot easier. Setup Enhancer for Salesforce is a Greasemonkey script that helps you find just what you’re looking for in Setup [...]

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Dude, Did Marc Benioff Just Read my Mind? - Story From: CRM FYI

It’s kind of scary, but I think he really did. I was just drafting an email to my favorite User Experience team at Salesforce. I wanted  to discuss any future ideas they had on revamping the interface to allow “gradual data entry” and not just overwhelm people with a huge page layout with temporally superfluous [...]

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Is it Really only 212 Days until the Collapse of SaaS? - Story From: CRM FYI

On my calendar, Friday, August 27, 2010 has had a special inscription on it for the past year and a half. It’s a date that could change the world I work in. It could be the day by which Software as a Service (SaaS) all out collapses and Salesforce.com, it’s poster-child, goes under. Well, that [...]

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Plan for Success with Tips on Deploying Salesforce Content - Story From: CRM FYI

I’m excited to bring you a guest blog post today from Mike Gerholdt, a fellow Salesforce blogger and avid Twitterer. So your back from Dreamforce and your all jazzed at the announcement Marc Benioff made that Content for Salesforce is now free for all users. Bubbling with excitement you want to go back to the office and [...]

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Getting the Most Out of Dreamforce - Story From: CRM FYI

Dreamforce 09 is so close now. It begins next week in San Francisco and it’s without a doubt going to be the most exciting conference I go to this year. This will be my fifth Dreamforce and they grow not only in attendance, but in value each year. It’s hard to believe, but four [...]

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Dreamforce 09: What will you take home this year? - Story From: CRM FYI

Anyone who knows me reasonably well knows I’m a Disney fanatic.  Whether it’s my coffee cup, my Goofy winter hat, reading blogs about it or going to the theme parks each year, I enjoy Disney all the time.  Their theme for 2009 has been “What will you celebrate?”  The goal is to get people in [...]

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The Case Against the $113.4 Million Software Upgrade - Story From: CRM FYI

Suppose 63,000 companies that use the same software decide to take part in the world’s largest mass software upgrade event.  They all wanted to take advantage of some the great new features made available in “Snowman 10″, the code-name given to this new release.  They divide themselves into two groups and agree that group A [...]

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