Storing Media Clippings in Salesforce
I posted a bookmarklet a while back that helps you create Salesforce Tasks from web research. That’s swell and works with all versions of Salesforce.
But what if you want to do more specialize web research, like tracking media mentions of certain issues? Here’s a short video of a custom Clippings object that I created along with a bookmarklet that makes capturing web content a snap:
As you can see, it makes capturing, storing, and cross-referencing content quite easy. This trick will work with any custom object, just get familiar with how bookmarklets work and how Salesforce constructs URLs and edit forms.
February 25th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Wow, you’re reading my mind. Just rolled out a Clippings AND a Jurisdictions object (even initially used same Globe/red tab theme for that!) for my political clients, and this bookmarklet is a great idea.
February 25th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Excellent! Great minds think alike…
March 12th, 2008 at 7:54 am
[...] I wanted to give props to Andrew, David, Kelley and the team that produced Sightline Daily, a great source for daily environmental news. Behind the scenes, it’s a very complex news collection and publishing site built on Plone. Andrew has a nice post talking about what went into the site, and definitely check out his short video of his news collection bookmarklet. It’s similar to what I talked about the other day for collecting news clippings into Salesforce.com. [...]
March 19th, 2008 at 8:04 am
[...] made an improvement to my media clipping system that I’ve written about before. You can now clip Youtube videos and watch them in Salesforce.com. I think this could be handy as [...]
November 8th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
[...] just made my clipping system much cooler using TinyURL, Sites, and [...]
November 11th, 2008 at 8:38 am
Hey Steve,
Any particular reason why you are using tasks for this and not a custom object? don’t tasks get archived by SFDC?
This is really nifty!