MK Partners News

If you visit salesforce.com/events you may be disappointed by the lack of events going on in North America right now. It’s not even a search option! Fortunately, salesforce.com/community has its own events page which does have a list of web-based events that do occur during North American business hours. One of which is coming up next week and sounds perfect for beginner to intermediate admins struggling with data issues. The webinar is being given by two salesforce.com employees and doesn’t mention any partners, so it should be a little less biased than a Dreamforce session.

For more details visit salesforce.com/community and click on the events link in the sidebar

Salesforce.com is holding a webinar titled “Beyond virtualization: revolutionizing application design” on January 28, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. PT. David Claiborne and Peter Coffee will be speaking. Details below.

For all its benefits, virtualization doesn’t move beyond the boundaries of traditional IT data “silos.” But forward-looking CIOs and developers are going much further, by building new highly-connected systems in the cloud.
Learn about the application design revolution that’s unleashing tremendous business value—join us for this next Cloud Computing Uncovered Webinar, and discover:

• Virtualization’s current state of play on desktops and in data centers
• Why multi-tenancy gives you more security, reliability, and elasticity
• Collaborative power tools for individuals and enterprises, from Google Docs to Salesforce-to-Salesforce

And don’t miss Peter Coffee’s monthly mythbuster: “Is virtualization the key to the cloud?” Discover the advantages of making your next IT initiative truly new vs. merely more efficient.
Register now

The Los Angeles salesforce.com user group will be meeting on January 20, 2010 in Santa Monica. Mark Whiteside of AppExtremes will demonstrate their Conga Merge product. There will also be a demo of the salesforce chatter and Twitter/Facebook integrations.

January 20th Wednesday
3:45pm-5:45pm
(an earlier start time per members request)
Daily Grill
2501 Colorado Ave
Santa Monica 310.309.2170
*Validated parking underground

More details here.

Salesforce.com is hosting a webinar on January 14, 2010 10:00 a.m. PST titled “Can one app change the world?”. It’s a showcase of a customer named “Renewable Choice Energy” and how they use Force.com. Here’s the official description and registration link:

How can you make a difference with cloud computing?
Listen in as Renewable Choice Energy explains how they built an app on Force.com that measures the carbon impact their employees have on the planet.
Join Tom, Blakely, and Sarah to learn:
What features were used to create this app
How to track your company’s carbon footprint
Where to find more planet-friendly apps
What else is possible with Force.com
Make an impact on your world. Learn how to create powerful apps on the Force.com platform.

Register today

Salesforce.com is hosting two webinars to present the new features in the Spring ‘10 release. The webinars take place on January 19 at 10:00 a.m. PST and 8:30 p.m. PST. It looks like the webinar will be two hours long and broken up into two parts.

Part 1 : Custom Cloud – Learn how many new Force.com features, including Multilevel Master-Detail Relationships and Rich Text Areas, can help you build richer applications, faster (1st hour).

Part 2 : Sales & Service Cloud – Discover how new features in Salesforce CRM, including Salesforce Automation, Salesforce Knowledge and Salesforce Answers, can help transform the way you interact with customers and partners (2nd hour

You can register at www.developerforce.com

Salesforce.com has announced the following new webinar in their Admin to Hero series:

Can one app change the world?
January 14, 2010 10:00 a.m. PST

How can you make a difference with cloud computing?
Listen in as Renewable Choice Energy explains how they built an app on Force.com that measures the carbon impact their employees have on the planet.
Join Tom, Blakely, and Sarah to learn:

• What features were used to create this app
• How to track your company’s carbon footprint
• Where to find more planet-friendly apps
• What else is possible with Force.com

Make an impact on your world. Learn how to create powerful apps on the Force.com platform.

Register Here

Salesforce.com is bringing two sessions of their Admin to Hero event to Los Angeles on January 20, 2010. The sessions are being held in El Segundo, one at 9am and one at 1pm. Click here to register.

Our staff is overqualified to attend, so we’ll probably pass, but we recommend any new admins attend.

Have you already attended one of these roadshows? Tell us about your experience.

We just got this email from LinkedIn:

You requested access to the LinkedIn APIs and we wanted you to be the first to know that our APIs are now available.

With the LinkedIn platform, your users can bring their professional identities and networks with them to your site. You’ll be able to provide more engaging experiences and extend your site’s reach.

Visit the LinkedIn Developer Network to learn more about how you can get access to rich professional information and core LinkedIn features.

The race is on for all developers to integrate with LinkedIn!

Salesforce.com has published their 8 reasons to get excited about Dreamforce on the official salesforce blog

#8 – Pre-conference training and hands-on sessions (Thursday, Nov. 5)
#7 – Salesforce.com Campground (Friday, Nov. 6)
#6 – Force.com Zone (today’s post)
#5 – Cloud Expo (Tuesday, Nov. 10)
#4 – Breakout sessions (Wednesday, Nov. 11)
#3 – Networking opportunities (Thursday, Nov. 12)
#2 – Healthy planet, healthy people (Friday, Nov. 13)
#1 – Keynotes (Monday, Nov. 15)

Check it out

MK Partners proudly invites you to visit us at Booth #125 at Dreamforce ‘09 in San Francisco November 17 – 20.

If you have not registered yet, you can get a Free Keynote & Expo pass (not a full conference pass), a $200 value, by using the promo code: EXPOPNR at www.dreamforce.com.

We hope to see you there!