Dreamforce 2007 Wrap Up

Last Updated on Thursday, 20 September 2007 11:10 Written by Steve Thursday, 20 September 2007 11:10

I’m bleary eyed as I write this wrap up of the Salesforce user Conference. I had a great time seeing lots of old friends and meeting a bunch of great new folks. Here were my top 15 moments:

  1. INXS, baybee!
  2. Going to the Nonprofit Salesforce.com party. Four words: stretch limo, Tiburon, and Marga-greet-as.
  3. Demoing the fun work Matthew and I did with Apex, and what Andrew and Jesse have built with Plone integration, and getting great response.
  4. Having Simon Fell ask me what my number one feature request was…and giving him 4!
  5. Staying up late with Evan Callahan–it was like geek summer camp…
  6. Being one of 3 folks to win a Developer Hero award from Adam Gross. Thanks Adam!
  7. Getting interviewed by Peter Coffee on the Expo floor
  8. Hearing great news on direction of the platform–big doings in the next 12 months
  9. Having 75 separate conversations about how we all have way too much work to do
  10. Getting nominated for an Appy award and losing to a much more deserving nonprofit–congrats Family Service Agency of San Francisco! And continued good luck with your implementation!
  11. Demoing for Sonny Cloward the heavy customizations we’ve done to manage our consulting program in Salesforce.com
  12. Getting to thank Glenn at CRMFusion and Andrew at Clicktools for giving us access to their awesome products. Mark from Apextremes was so busy telling people about Conga, I didn’t get a chance to thank him!
  13. Seeing Chris Pokrana continue to cash in on that photo shoot from 2005–he was on-screen 3 times in the keynote
  14. Meeting tons of great people–let’s stay in touch.
  15. Actually using twitter in a helpful way…I didn’t think it was possible

Thanks again to the Salesforce.com Foundation who got us all there, and showed us a great time. Now, off to dig myself out of a big pile of email!

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  1. Elisa   |  Thursday, 20 September 2007 at 3:23 pm

    Glad to see what made it to the top of the list.

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  3. janna   |  Thursday, 27 September 2007 at 3:22 pm

    good times. It was great to meet the non-profit crew. :)

  4. Steve   |  Thursday, 27 September 2007 at 6:07 pm

    It was great to meet you too, Janna! Keep me posted about life in Chicago.

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