Throughout my admin career, I have had the pleasure of working with many stakeholders. These stakeholders were either decision makers for their specific teams or decision makers for large portions of the company. Part of what I have learned from working with all of these different folks is that not all stakeholders are equal and that … Continue reading Change Management and what I learned not to do
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Development made easy – MavensMate
I recently started doing an online course called Apex Academy by David Liu. During the course, it is recommended to use MavensMate as the best IDE out there for Salesforce development. While I have still quite a ways to go developer wise, I can tell you for sure that MavensMate is the way to go. … Continue reading Development made easy – MavensMate
A first look at the Summer ’17 release
I recently got a preview org for the Summer '17 release and wanted to share some brief findings that I found interesting. Summer '17 is the release I am deeming the drive towards lightning. While my company is nowhere near moving to Lightning, Salesforce as a company is definitely trying to tell us, Classic folks, soon … Continue reading A first look at the Summer ’17 release
Mass Download Attachments (Tool)
As many of you are aware, shortly (winter '18) Salesforce will require all of its users to use Files as they are phasing out Attachments and Notes. While Salesforce is doing a nice job of releasing a tool in Summer '17 to handle conversion of Attachments to Files, they still have not handled how to … Continue reading Mass Download Attachments (Tool)
Review: Salesforce Trailhead
Salesforce Trailhead... where do I even begin?! Out of all the self-help, self-study tools, I have used both during my academic career and professional career, Trailhead has to be at the top of my list of most useful resources for helping me learn something new. Once I knew that I was going to take on … Continue reading Review: Salesforce Trailhead
Using Trailhead to train your employees
Ever since I started working with Salesforce, Trailhead has been my go-to place for learning new things and understanding key ideas about how Salesforce works. As a result, when our Head of IT asked if I could come up with a training solution for our employees, my first thought was to use Trailhead. My initial … Continue reading Using Trailhead to train your employees
How I became a Certified Salesforce Admin
My journey to getting certified started off back in October when we hired some consultants to work with our company in revamping our Salesforce and getting it ready for some real heavy lifting. I spoke with one of the consultants about how she got to where she is now and she told me about the … Continue reading How I became a Certified Salesforce Admin
