Process Builder and Flow have become really good friends of mine lately. When you combine PB+Flow, you have a great way to overcome some of the challenges out of the box functionality gives to a solo admin stuck on Classic with no developer. Walk through this one with me, will you? Business Requirement: A Task READ MORE
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Our Favorite Things This Week: 9/7/2018 – Dreamforce Addition Part 2
If you checked out my browsing history, you’d know just how excited I am for Dreamforce. (And no, it’s not because I spent my teenage years listening to Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters” like it was going somewhere.) It’s because Dreamforce is a great time for me to level up and see what apps I can READ MORE
Unapologetically Accidental – How I’m Learning to Stop Being Sorry
About two weeks ago I was aimlessly scrolling through LinkedIn in hopes to increase my SSI by finding something to interact with or share or motivate me to get out of the slump that it seems I’m not alone in this summer. Somewhere along the way, I read a post about why we need to READ MORE
Our Favorite Things This Week: 6/1/18
Dreamforce Registration is Officially Open!!! I’m really bad about using exclamation marks all! the! time! (I get it from my Dad who thinks I work for Salesforce, not just with it, I digress), but this announcement is worthy of all the shouting! That orange button calling us to action with its words that make any Trailblazer excited went live on READ MORE
Our Favorite Things This Week: 5/18/2018
Dreamforce 2018 Admin Track Presentation Submissions Mike Gerholdt, Director of Admin Evangelism, has lit the signal of all you #AwesomeAdmin superheroes. It is almost time to submit session presentation ideas for the Admin Track at Dreamforce 2018! What is it that you know really well or are super passionate about? Maybe you want to present with some READ MORE
Imposter Much? How to Spin a Challenge to Your Authority
I’ve been a bit quiet around the Accidental Admin camp lately, partially because in addition to being an Accidental Admin I am also an accidental runner, training for my third half marathon. Of course, I was looking forward to tapering so I could get back to some of the things I love, like this space. READ MORE
Our Favorite Things this Week – Appy Birthday Edition: 3/30/18
In honor of Appy’s First Birthday, our favorite things this week are dedicated to each of our personal favorite apps from the AppExchange. These apps give us that extra magic to keep things running smoothly in the orgs we work in. Happy Birthday, Appy! (Don’t know Appy? She is the mascot of the AppExchange!) App READ MORE
Our Favorite Things this Week: 3/9/2018
1. Simon’s Career Tips As Accidentals, we all embrace being adaptable, just like Salesforce’s Chief Marketing Officer, Simon Mulcahy. This week, the Salesforce blog featured some of his “little career tips that make a BIG impact” – and if these aren’t just the perfect way to describe how Accidentals have blazed their trails, I don’t READ MORE
10 Things I Love About You, Salesforce
This week is Valentine’s Day and my thoughts are all about the things I love about you, Salesforce. Sure, I could be basic and say that I love the ease of use, the user interface, and the way it keeps my business running smoothly, but there is so much more to love. 10 Things READ MORE
Salesforce Was Dropped in My Lap – Now What?
In 2011, Salesforce was dropped in my lap, right in time for Valentine’s Day. I’d returned from maternity leave and was now committed to working with a project team to birth the implementation of Service Cloud. Maybe it was cupid’s arrows or the mom hormones, but I couldn’t help but fall in love with the READ MORE