MK Partners News

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!

Dreamforce, Salesforce.com’s Annual User’s Conference, is fast approaching. MK Partners is very excited to be attending our third Dreamforce in a row. We’re pumped up to learn about Salesforce’s upcoming release, hear Colin Powell speak, and rock out with the Black Crowes, but most of all, we are excited to meet you.

Just like the previous years, we will be featuring our staff, services, and products at a booth this year. To make this our best Dreamforce yet, we want to know what we can do to better serve your needs during Dreamforce.

Would you benefit from a demo of our products? How about a free optimization consultation on how you can utilize best practices to enhance your instance of Salesforce.com?

We know this conference will be great, but we’re most excited about Dreamforce being an opportuntiy for MK Partners to foster better relationships with our customers. As we move forward with our Dreamforce plans, let us know – How can MK Partners benefit you at Dreamforce?

Salesforce announced last week that the Dreamforce ’10 schedule builder is live on the Dreamforce.com website. The tool is still a little buggy (printing to pdf was not working last week, and once you select a session you can’t see it’s details anymore), but in general, it’s a great way to start planning where you need to be during Dreamforce.

As always, we recommend picking more than one session for any given timeframe and sitting near the door so that you can hop out and try to get the best of both worlds. If there’s just too much you want to see and hear, don’t worry, it’ll all be available online after the conference.

You can start building your agenda here:
http://dreamevent.force.com/dreamforce/publicagenda

MK Partners is pleased to announce that Genocide Intervention Network has selected MK Partners as their salesforce.com consultant. MK Partners has been selected to optimize Genocide Intervention Network’s current instance of salesforce.com.

The project will enhance Genocide Intervention Network’s ability to track donors and its ability to communicate with constituents by developing a system that will integrate its website with the capacity to store and analyze data in salesforce.com.

MK Partners is proud to assist Genocide Intervention Network in its mission to empower individuals and communities with the tools to prevent and stop genocide. Welcome to the team Genocide Intervention Network!

Wish you could run more of your business in the cloud? To give users exactly what they need and make your entire company more efficient? Find out how Schumacher Group did just that—by building unique Force.com apps to manage relationships with physicians and to administer contracts and proposals.
Join Melissa and Sarah for another example of how to use your existing skills to build applications that extend beyond CRM. Learn how Schumacher Group harnessed the power of salesforce.com to meet the following business goals:

• Get better reports with summary fields
• Put an end to bad data with workflows, approvals, and validation rules
• Create a fresh new look with Force.com pages functionality

Move more of your business into the cloud—and boost
your career.
Register now

Los Angeles: Find CRM success in the cloud
The right answer for right now
September 22, 8:30 – 11:30 a.m.
The Beverly Hilton Hotel

How do thousands of companies like yours generate more leads, boost sales, cut support costs, and keep their customers? They use Salesforce CRM, the leading Customer Relationship Management solution in the cloud to achieve:*

• 52% increase in leads
• 34% boost in revenues
• 23% decrease in service and support costs
• 30% improvement in customer retention

Hear about their spectacular results firsthand—and learn how to quickly and easily reach your own—at this insight-packed breakfast event. Space is limited so register now!

*Source: Salesforce.com Customer Relationship Survey conducted December 2008 by Independent vendor MarketTools Inc.

September 24, 2009, 9:00 a.m. PDT

Are your users wasting time creating one-off reports? Do your managers have the information they need to make good decisions? And how do you keep your data from getting corrupted by careless data entry?
Salesforce CRM has solutions to these common business dilemmas. Come join salesforce.com’s training experts to find out to use the advanced features of Salesforce CRM to:
Embed custom links in pages to display instant, customized reports
Use workflows to help managers see trends and relationships for accurate forecasting
Auto-correct incorrect data entries

Register Here

Join us this month for a presentation of on the exciting new Winter ’10 features. We’ll start off with an interactive preview of upcoming innovations in Force.com, such as batch Apex, Bulk API and Site integration with Portal. This will be followed by an equally intriguing look at new features in Salesforce CRM Cloud Apps, such as Inspector, Quoting, Dynamic campaign viewing and much more. Attend either part or come to both for the full picture.

Register today—and get a head start on Winter ’10.