Salesforce best practices everywhere say, "Make sure to clean your data before you load it into Salesforce." Some people follow this rule, while many throw caution to the wind and 'fire it up' leading to a mass transfer of dirty data that someone has to clean. That someone is you, so what do you do now?
Dreamforce 2015: Dreamboat Discovery
Questions about the boat? The immediate weeks before SFDC "D-Day", I began researching some basic features normally expected from a hotel stay because I've never been on a cruise and had small ideas from other experts on what to expect. I am now capable of answering these questions and posting some pictures to support my …
The Definition of a Role
Einstein's theory of general relativity postulates that the laws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating observers, and that the speed of light in a vacuum was independent of the motion of all observers. I know some people are thinking, "Well what the heck does that mean?" Others are wondering, "What point are you …
Dreamforce 2015: Dreamboat Check-In
Check-In Usually, checking into a hotel requires a confirmation and the collection of a room key. The Dreamboat requires far more than one check-in desk. First, we were routed to an open warehouse-like area of the port building on the ground level. "Please have your ID and confirmation email ready," a large group of us were …
Dreamforce 2015: The Day Before Dreamforce Eve
I chose to fly out early Sunday morning to avoid the crowd and havoc that is O'Hare International Airport on a Monday. My co-worker and director decided to do the same, so we flew out west beyond the Mississippi together. We stayed at the Marriott Marquis in the middle of Dreamforce campus and I'm so …
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Dreamforce 2015: First Reflection
As if heading west of the Mississippi for the first time in my life and escalating the intensity factor of my Salesforce career weren't enough, the mind-blowing splendor that is Dreamforce has my creative meter off the charts. Today is the third of the four day conference and I write now because the first two …
Dreamforce 2015: Agenda Builder Go-Live
42 days and some change according to the official Salesforce Dreamforce 2015 site. This is all new to me. I've never gone to a full out conference and this one takes the cake when it comes to conferences. Today was A-Day when it comes to this mega conference because the Agenda Builder went live and all hell …
Acceptance On Being You
When we first come into the world, we are so focused on learning on how to do the basics that we are not consciously aware of societal norms. There are no restrictions because social constraints are a learned behavior. My one year old reminded me of this as we continue to restrict her available areas …
Kairos
Did you ever have such a huge moment in time that there were no words to describe because everything happened all at once?