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Salesforce for Google Apps – Launch Demo

Posted on May 28, 2008 by lkao

Eons ago (mid-April), the same team that brought you Salesforce for Google AdWords launched Salesforce integration with other business apps in the Google Apps suite: GMail, Google Documents, Google Talk, and Google Calendar.

The good folks at ZDNet published the launch and demo, in case you couldn’t make it.

I’ll be going into more detail later about how to set up each aspect of these apps.

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Salesforce.com Summer08 Release Notes – Review

Posted on May 10, 2008 by lkao

Thanks again go to gokubi for reviewing the Summer ’08 Release Notes and providing some quick commentary. When I saw the blurb about Multiday Events for the calendar, I raised an eyebrow. I’m curious to see how this works with syncing to their Connect to Microsoft Outlook (and/or Google Calendar) product.

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Nonprofit Products for Salesforce.com

Posted on April 18, 2008 by lkao

If you’re a nonprofit that is using Salesforce, or thinking of using Salesforce.com’s Nonprofit Edition for your organization, make sure you check out their AppExchange partners that provide non-profit discounts for their solutions. This information is listed on the Salesforce.com Foundation page for now, but grassroots efforts are underway to list this information in a Google Group where it can be more searchable. Stay tuned.

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Create Salesforce Tasks Using Jott.com

Posted on April 17, 2008 by lkao

The folks at the consulting firm, MK Partners, created a quick and easy connector between Jott.com and Salesforce.

Jott.com is a free service that allows users to call a phone number, leave a voice message for someone (including yourself), and then converts the message from speech-to-text, and either emails or text messages it to the recipient.

The MK Partners code allows you to leave a message for yourself, which then generates a task in Salesforce for you to complete. Pretty nifty. (And, if you’re somehow using Jott and Salesforce and David Allen’s Getting Things Done approach to organizing things, I’m sure this will come in handy, too.)

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