Keeping Your Pictures and Documents safe and secure
While Salesforce.com is our favorite cloud-based solution, there are other cloud solutions that solve different needs. This post is about keeping your valuable data safe, even if you experience fire, theft, or dead hard drives. I’ve talked to inconsolable friends who lost five years of baby pictures when their laptops crashed, and others when their their business files ended up on a dead...
Read MoreFormula Tips and Tricks at the UK Salesforce NfP Usergroup
Today I had the pleasure of presenting one of my favorite topics, and what is hopefully a favorite topic of lazy (er, I mean efficient…) Salesforce Admins the world over: Formulas. You can use Salesforce Fomulas to link to other databases and websites, to bring in images from the likes of Yahoo Finance and Google Charts, or even to help you auto-fill objects by adding / overriding a New...
Read MoreSocial Enterprise Contests and Awards…and Coffee
Warning – this post contains strong language and nudity. Just joking – it’s only strong language. But you were a bit more interested for a second, weren’t you? I’m a bit of a coffee nut. I weigh my beans, grind them in a burr grinder, and make my coffee using either a double walled french press or a manual espresso pump – my dependable Presso. I’ve...
Read MoreThird Sector IT’s Partnership with Convio / Common Ground
We’re very excited to be partnering with Convio and their cloud-based fundraising solution for Non-Profits, Common Ground! Common Ground is deeply integrated into Salesforce, and allows charities using Salesforce to do so much more. We’re one of three organisations picked as UK partners – and quite frankly, we’re the coolest of the three. Best of all, Common Ground will...
Read MoreTaking the ADM 301 and Sales Cloud Consultant exam
I’m not too sure why I thought it would be a good idea, other than saving me a trip to the exam center, but I scheduled two Salesforce Certification exams back to back yesterday. I knew this was a bit chancy, as if I had failed the first I wouldn’t have been in a great mood to take the second, but happily I passed both. This means it’s also time to go back to Inkscape and add my...
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