It’s hard not to get blurry-eyed about GiveCamp. While it can be a lot to coordinate and the weight of planning feels a bit heavier each year, Friday night as the volunteers and non-profits rolled into the room at Plus Consulting (who are heroes for giving us a location at the last minute) it all READ MORE
GiveCamp 2020
GiveCamp is one of my favorite weekends of the year. With teams focusing on App Dev, Websites, and Salesforce – our team brings together non-profits from across Western Pennsylvania and pairs them with dozens of Salesforce professionals in our region to complete Salesforce projects that better enable them to meet their mission. Up until READ MORE
How We Lost Hawaii Because of Low Contrast
So much time has passed and yet it feels like time has stood still. Its been a fog. Days of the same, punctuated by trying to remember which day my husband was in the office (he works in a hospital) and pagers going off (he’s also a first responder). I think I’ve logged like 100 READ MORE
Does it really have to be called a Custom Object?
Salesforce is weird. Okay, stick with me for a minute. Here is a platform that can be customized with clicks, no developer required. You can do a whole lot, in fact entire orgs can be designed and implemented without a single bit of code. Take just about any other major software option out there. If READ MORE
Making the Move: From In-house Admin to Salesforce Consultant
Today’s post is a guest post from David Akina of Shift3 Technologies, a Bitwise Industries company. David was a true driving force behind the first-ever CenCal Dreamin’ event held in Fresno, CA, in January 2020. He’s a Developer Fellow, and through Shift3, Bitwise Industries, and their Geekwise Academy, he is helping to activate human potential READ MORE
Cloud-Shaped Hearts: There’s Love in the Ecosystem
So, we all LOVE Salesforce, right? But what happens when the one you love ALSO loves Salesforce? Is there a balance between when you do and don’t talk shop? Do you get matching outfits to profess your love for each other and the Ohana? I wanted to find out how some Salesforce power couples felt, READ MORE
Holiday Downtime? Admin Must Do’s
Oh, holiday weeks. These last two weeks of the year tend to go one of three ways – you’re off and enjoying much deserved paid time off, you’re hustling to meet end of year business goals (so busy you aren’t reading this post until 2020), or you’re “forced” to work because you spend all your PTO READ MORE
Spring ’20 Release: The Absolutely Way Too Early, Definitive Guide to the 3 Best Features
Yes, it is obviously way too early for this post, but after toying around in my Spring ’20 Pre-Release org there were several things I was so excited about that I wanted to share. But first, a word about pre-release orgs – starting on Thursday (Dec 12) you can visit this link to sign up READ MORE
Do Not Push That Button
Have you ever hit a point in a project where you have wanted to get rid of one or more buttons from the page layout but only when a certain circumstance happens? We kept having users clicking buttons that when they should not have been. Clearly training was not going to solve the problem for READ MORE
Favorite Flow Function
I am all about screen flows but sometimes its even better to be able to avoid using screens. The day before Dreamforce I am sitting in my hotel room, having flown out a day early to be available for a project, with a new puzzle in front of me. We needed some data to “default” READ MORE