Are You Heading Towards Burnout? Advice From the Salesforce Ohana
Burnout is a risk, whether it's because we're hyper engaged, or just culturally at risk (yep, the Netherlands, I'm looking at you!). I've written about some ways to tackle it on SalesforceBen, wherever you reside, with some tips from the Salesforce Ohana.
Community Spotlight: Paul Ginsberg
Ok. This one is short and possibly self-promotional, though I didn't seek it out. Read on for details of perhaps the most significant event that transformed my Salesforce career. As originally published on Salesforce.org's August 2020 #HubCap (aka "10 Highlights from...
I’m quitting… Because the future is awesome!
An early Amsterdam User Group meeting from 2017 Last year, I wrote in the guide to setting up your own Salesforce Saturday: “Running a [group] is great, but if you’re unavailable due to a cold or other equally traumatic life event (e.g. kids birthday party), then you...
VSCode for Salesforce Admins: A Deeper Dive
This Admin’s guide to SFDX and VSCode comes in two parts. In the first part, Introduction to SFDX and VSCode for Admins, I worked through an example that may have sounded like a headache initially, but was very easy by the end of the tutorial! The first post went...
Introduction to SFDX and VSCode for Admins
Updating one page layout is easy, but what happens if you want to update 15 page layouts? Or if you want to find out where an email template is referenced? Want to take a glance sideways from being an Admin and have a peak at some of the core tools...
Coronavirus Support Package: Learning, Events & More
On Thursday, together with my husband, we decided to socially distance ourselves as much as can be from everyone. To skip straight to the black humour, by Friday I was already feeling edgy. I’ve been here before; when I was (much) younger I suffered from severe...
Meet the User Community in real life during Basecamp Netherlands
Yes! Basecamp Netherlands is coming. Thursday 26 March will be a day full of innovation and inspiration. I can't wait to meet 6000 like-minded people and share knowledge with them. It will be a fantastic edition where you can meet the User Community in real life and...
Salesforce Ohana Twitter Starter Pack: What and Who to Follow
Recently, I introduced a friend into the world of Salesforce. They’d heard a lot about it, and wanted to spend the next couple of months getting some Trailhead trails under their belt to see if it’s right for them. Then I added: “But, to really understand Salesforce...
Dyspraxia Awareness Week
I often write about Salesforce, but did you know how much my attitude is influenced by dyspraxia? (also known as DCD / Developmental Coordination Disorder) During October I participated in an awareness week. An interview was published. Read the original over the...
How to Network in the Salesforce Ecosystem
Why Social Networking is a Must With a friendly crowd, networking can be relaxing and rewarding simultaneously Do you love going to events with lots of people that you don’t know? Spending an evening with people you’ve never met? Excited by the prospect of making...
Diary Planning – Some Tips
Before every meeting we would discuss diary dates. We would play snap a number of minutes (and sometimes days, if communicating by email), trying to find a date when all us co-leaders would be available for the next meeting. This was a frustrating game and...
We Need Volunteers! (& How to Get Them)
Is it work or something else? Look at the smiles on these Czech Dreamin volunteers to make your own decision For ages I’ve been trying to work out some of the magic that helps create the friendly, welcoming spirit throughout the Dutch Salesforce community. I’ve...
Trailblazer Community Emails: Declutter & Take Back Control!
This week we are stepping away from the trendy kids, to talk about email. It’s that monster that lurks in your Outlook or Gmail inbox, morally blackmailing you about things you might need to do. I’m horrified by people with thousands of emails. How to keep up?...
My #SecretOhana
Twitter is a place of despair, hopelessness and namecalling… unless you’re in the Salesforce ecosystem 😁. Instead, it’s like the sun has been turned on and the darkness has been banished to the corners! That said, today I’m going to write about a particularly bright...
Where Did You Get That Hoodie? My Journey to Golden Hoodie Glory
It’s been described as an “over-the-top gold lamé jacket”, but – I have to tell you – I am fiercely proud of mine. I’m referring to the coveted ‘Golden Jacket’, which you may have seen Trailblazers all over the world wear proudly. But, how did I get mine? I’ve...
After YeurDreamin – diving deeper into the Ohana!
You've come, networked, been educated, and had the opportunity to reflect on your own business challenges and opportunities. What comes next? We’ve got a few calls to action that you might want to consider to keep in touch with your inner Ohana over the next 12 months...
Paul’s Cloud Integrate Diary (June edition)
So I made it back from Bulgaria via Indianapolis (see photo above), as one does, just in time for the sell-out inaugural YeurDreamin, with 350 Trailblazers coming to Amsterdam. I’m on the organising committee so I’m keenly looking forward to how the year’s worth of...
Seizing the Opportunity: A Trailblazing Day (part 4)… it’s never really over, thank goodness!
You might be happy to know this is a shorter piece than my other entries in the series. If you want to read from the beginning I recommend you start with my prologue or my arrival in Indianapolis. Exhaustion has set in. Not with typing this out, no, that’s been good...
Seizing the Opportunity: A Trailblazing Day (part 3)… TrailblazerDay itself
This is Part 3 of my Indianapolis adventure. Click here to read the prologue or you can skip that and read my first night if you want. I’ve received an email update; we’re to meet in the hotel lobby at 8am and then we’re off for a “Special experience at Indianapolis...
Seizing the Opportunity: A Trailblazing Day (part 2)… arrival
Indianapolis You can read my prologue if you want the run up, but suffice it to say that in the 13 day period that I had between getting my initial invite and arriving in Indianapolis I hadn’t slept well. Too excited! Thanks body – just when I could really do with...