We are still looking for a motivated, enthusiastic customer (or customers) to lead the Vancouver user group.  Please contact me if you're interested or want to hear what's involved.

Thanks!
jthorpe@salesforce.com

Hi Everyone,

This post is to let you know I will be stepping down from my post as leader/organizer of the Vancouver Salesforce.com User Group.

Over the past two years I’ve enjoyed meeting each one of you, learning with you, and seeing the group grow each month. I feel it is time for some new energy and leadership to take the group to the next level.

As it stands now we have 191 members, up from 1 when I first started the group in October of 2006. I consider this a great success.

Founding and leading the group for the past two years has been an incredible experience. I’ve met a ton of talented and interesting people both in Vancouver and all over the U.S and Canada as a result of my participation. 

Over the next month I will be working with Salesforce.com to insure the transition works properly and that the group can continue to function as usual. On that note, I am looking for someone to take over the leadership role from here on.

If you would be interested in taking over leadership of the group, please contact me.

I would like to thank the staff at Salesforce.com (Erica Kuhl and Jeanine Thorpe especially!)  for all the resources, help, contacts and marketing support they’ve provided over the past two years to help the group grow. I would also like to thank them for enabling me to attend and speak at Dreamforce in 2007 and for the opportunity to create and lead this group. 

I would also like to thank Chris Breikss of 6s Marketing for the help, time, and resources he and 6s invested in the group in our early days to help us get going.

Finally, thank you to everyone on this list for showing up, providing your ideas and input and making all of this possible. It has been a blast!

Best,

Adam

Ps: please add me to your network and stay in touch!

Adam Killam

http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamkillam 

http://twitter.com/adamkillam

Hi Everyone,

Our next meeting will take place Thursday Nov. 13th, at the Holiday Inn Vancouver Downtown, 1110 Howe St. (at Helmcken), at 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Agenda:

Kevin Davis of Kryton will be presenting on his experience in successfully implementing Salesforce.com for a 50 person organization. Kevin will be sharing what's worked at Kryton and has some great tips for admins, sales and marketing users.

Linda Webster of Data Sea will be presenting on Data Sea's latest AppExchange application: Data Fusion.

"Send email, make calls, and send voice messages in one step, using natural English, without looking up a contact. DataSea does it all from its simple, single-access-point interface."

Here's a link to the hotel:
http://www.holidayinnvancouverdowntown.com/

Here's a link to directions:
http://www.holidayinnvancouverdowntown.com/directions.aspx

Best,

Adam

Adam Killam
Vancouver User Group Leader

Hi Everyone,

Quick update on tomorrow's meeting: we have a new presentation on security being delivered by Tricipher.

About Tricipher:

TriCipher, Inc. provides a unified authentication infrastructure available on demand or on premise to protect web applications and enterprise portals, the people that use them and the business processes that flow through them against fraud and identity theft.

See you tomorrow!

Our next learning session will take place Wednesday June 4th.

Based on the results of the recent questionnaire I sent out to each member, the format of the next meeting will include a learning session and then several short talks by members on how they use Salesforce.com and their successes in using the app.

Details

• Location: Marqui, suite 300 - 1201 West Pender St. (click for map)
• Time: 5:30-7:00 PM

Agenda

• Learning session: email marketing tools, tips and best practices
• Customer usage examples: your success with Salesforce.com

For the second part of the meeting I am looking for 4-5 volunteers to give a quick 5 minute talk on how they use SFDC. Please contact me if interested.

To attend the meeting, please RSVP to Adam Killam.

Sponsors

Marqui helps marketing and sales teams manage demand generation campaigns from interest to revenue using on-demand marketing automation software. Marketers across various industries use the Marqui Marketing Automation Suite to generate, nurture, and deliver leads to their sales team while demonstrating ROI for each campaign.

NexPATH Solutions is Vancouver's first certified Salesforce.com Consulting Partner and helps organizations increase sales, boost ROI on marketing dollars, and reduce customer support costs by implementing and extending their use of the leading on-demand CRM system: Salesforce.com.

Hi Everyone, more details on our next meeting:

What you will learn:

How to streamline your sales process, reduce the sales cycle and save time and energy by using electronic agreements via Salesforce.com. Imagine the paperless office!

How to connect Salesforce.com to everything under the sun and reduce your integration time by 80%!

What you could win:

An 8 Gig iPhone!

Sponsor:

Cast Iron Systems

Agenda:

Cynthia Johnston of Cast Iron systems will be speaking on Salesforce.com and data integration

Reed Clayton - VP of Sales and Marketing for Recombo.com will be speaking on Electronic Agreements & Salesforce.com.

For additional detials please see the post below.

The Vancouver Salesforce.com User Group will host its next meeting Wednesday March 26.

Agenda to be announced shortly.

• Date: Wednesday March 26th
• Time: 6:30 PM
• Sponsor:Cast Iron Systems
• Location: Opus Hotel  www.opushotel.com 322 Davie St.
• Cost: No Charge
• Networking: Cocktails and networking to follow in Opus Bar after the meeting

RSVP required by emailing Vancouver User Group Leader: Adam Killam adam.killam@researchcapital.com.

Hi Everyone,

Here is the finalized agenda for our next meeting:

Next meeting: Wednesday February 27^th from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM at www.opushotel.com 

Speaking first will be Fernando A. Labastida of www.pervasive.com. Fernando will be giving a presentation entitled "The Achilles heel of SaaS - solving the pain of data integration."

Second, will be Linda Webster of DataSea. Linda will be speaking on new productivity enhancement tools DataSea has created for Salesforce.com.

Third will be user group founder Adam Killam speaking on Salesforce Ideas. Salesforce Ideas enables companies build their own community Web sites to collaborate directly with partners, employees, or others in an interactive, online forum. Adam will be covering how to setup Salesforce Ideas for your organization and some innovative ways you can use the application to drive growth and success within your organization.

About Fernando:

Fernando Labastida is an account executive for Pervasive software covering the U.S. and Canadian West Coast, as well as Latin America.  He has worked both domestically and in the Latin American markets, for more than fifteen years. He has a Master's Degree from the University of California at Davis, and a Bachelors from the University of Texas at Austin. He has worked at companies such as Vignette Corporation, Inchcape Shipping Services, Rainmaker, and Commercial Video Systems. He has been instrumental in building the Latin American distribution channels for companies such as Pervasive Software, Echolab Switchers, and Rushworks Video Servers. He lives in Austin, TX and is a happily married father of four children, ages 2 to 16. My blog: http://labastida.com.

About Pervasive:

Pervasive Software (NASDAQ: PVSW) helps companies get the most out of their data investments through integration software. Pervasive's agile, multipurpose integration and data quality platform accelerates the sharing of information between multiple databases, applications, or hosted business systems,allows customers to reuse the same software for diverse integration scenarios, and enables customers to manage the quality of their data.

Click here to view Pervasive’s Data Integrator and Data Profiler

About Linda:

Linda Webster serves as CFO and business developer for DataSea, Inc.  She earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering from Boston University, and an M.B.A. in Finance from California State University at San Diego. She has worked as a software and electrical engineer at Bechtel Corporation, and has spent over fifteen years working with private investment.

About DataSea

DataSea is a data architecture and language processing program. It takes your data and lets you tell your computer what you want. You can find information and do things, like make calls and send email, in one step. Save time by reducing the need for navigation and clicking. DataSea gives answers and executes actions based on your input by using human-like reasoning to find the relevant connections among data. Its architecture gives natural language access to relational databases, as well as unstructured data. DataSea, Inc. operates in North Vancouver, BC and Berkeley, CA.

About Adam

An active member of the Salesforce.com community for over two years now, Adam regularly attends and speaks at Salesforce.com related events. As an Internet marketing and Salesforce.com specialist, Adam recently spoke at Salesforce.com’s annual user conference, Dreamforce 2007 on the Salesforce for Google Adwords integration as well as the Vancouver City tour in November.

By day he manages the web marketing and CRM needs for a national investment bank using his evenings to help a select group of clients grow their business using the web and CRM.

Additionally he founded Salesforcetimes.com, the web’s most active news source on Salesforce.com and regularly hosts the Vancouver Salesforce.com User group since founding it in 2006.

For more information visit adamkillam.com.

The Vancouver Salesforce.com User Group February Meeting

Date: Wednesday February 27th
Time: 6:30 PM
Location: Opus Hotel  www.opushotel.com 322 Davie St.
Cost: No Charge
Topics and speakers: to be announced shortly

Cocktails and networking to follow in Opus Bar after the meeting.

RSVP required by responding to this message or by emailing Vancouver User Group Leader: Adam Killam adam@adamkillam.com.

Hi Everyone,

Happy Holidays!

We'll be taking a break for the remainder of December and most likely for all of January.
Our next meeting should take place at the beginning of Feb. 2008.

Have a great break and thanks for making 2007 such a great year!

Best,

Adam

PS: FYI, we've grown to over 140 members now with the majority of that growth taking place in 2007!