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Chatter Together: When Salesforce Social Makes Sense… and When It Doesn’t

by Andy Wolber on Dec 07, 2012 in Salesforce
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Your presentation is complete. Before you send it, you’d like someone else’s opinion. If your colleagues are nearby, stick your head in their office and ask for feedback: “Hey, would you take a look at this? What do you think?”  Your physical presence ensures a response. More likely, though, you’ll send the presentation to your [...]

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Salesforce Social Contacts: Better than Caller ID for Your CRM Database

by Andy Wolber on Dec 03, 2012 in Salesforce
Salesforce Social Contacts provides fast access to social streams for your Contacts

Caller ID gives you the ability to see a name associated with a phone number. You know a little bit about the caller before answering: Is it your boss? Your significant other? Your mother? The information lets you prepare for the conversation. But Caller ID gives you a name, not context. Imagine if you had [...]

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Salesforce Explains Why Salesforce Backup Is Important [VIDEO]

by Kara Sweeney on Dec 02, 2012 in Salesforce

After mentioning the Dreamforce session, Backed Up Your Data Today?, in a recent blog post on restoring Salesforce data, we heard from a lot of people who were interested in learning more about what was covered in the session. So without further ado here is the video of the session. We launched our Salesforce product [...]

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4 Must-Have Salesforce Chatter Apps to Speed Up Chatter Adoption

by Jay Garmon on Nov 27, 2012 in Salesforce
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Salesforce Chatter can radically transform your sales organization — but only if you can actually get your team to embrace and employ Salesforce Chatter. It’s no small effort for persons who have never used social media in a meaningful way to suddenly embrace company-sponsored (or mandated) digital collaboration and conversation. It’s even harder to get [...]

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Backupify for Salesforce: User-Informed Design

by Emily Glass on Nov 09, 2012 in Backupify Features and Products
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When we here at Backupify started to think about building a backup for Salesforce data, we knew there were going to be some things we wanted to do differently. We wanted to continue to provide the same reliable and trustworthy access to data that we have already done for many businesses, but back up and [...]

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