Gillian Bruce

Gillian is a Principal Admin Evangelist at Salesforce. Since joining Salesforce in 2010, Gillian's worked in a number of roles that help Salesforce Administrators better understand and use the Salesforce platform. As host of the Salesforce Admins Podcast, she has helped deliver 250+ interviews from admins, product experts, and community leaders to listeners around the globe. She is passionate about empowering, inspiring, and enabling Salesforce Admins to transform their companies, careers, and communities. She loves the Salesforce community, her hometown of San Francisco, and is part mermaid.

How Shonnah Hughes Delivers Innovation with Einstein

Today on the Salesforce Admins Podcast we’re continuing our post-Dreamforce series with Shonnah Hughes, Salesforce Admin at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA). Join us to learn about the power of the Salesforce community, why having drive is the most important quality for a Salesforce Admin, and why asking for help is the most powerful […]

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Salesforce Winter ’18 Release Demo for your End Users

During the Winter ’18 Admin Preview during Release Readiness Live on Friday, September 22, I shared a demo of my top end-user features for this release. Now, I’m sharing that demo with you so you can get your end users excited about Winter ’18! To set up this demo, sign up for a pre-release org. Then: […]

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Summer ’17 Admin Preview Recap

Summer ’17 is here! A few weeks ago, we recorded the Admin Preview for Release Readiness Live to help you get the short(ish) list of the features we think are the most exciting for Admins in this release. All of these features are in Lightning, but don’t fret if you are still using Classic! Use […]

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Introducing Admin Lightning Stories

Admins are doing incredible things with Salesforce: building new apps, transforming businesses, and creating new careers. Over the past couple years, we’ve collected stories from all over the globe of people who’ve discovered Salesforce and taken on the unique challenge of becoming a Salesforce Admin, no matter their previous roles or backgrounds. They’ve shared their […]

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Introduction to Flow Webinar Summary & Video

Just a little while back, we did a webinar with flow experts Brian Kwong and Mark Ross, Introduction to Flow. We introduced you to Flow and showed you a live demo of a real life use case which you can follow along and replicate in your own org.  Watch full Webinar here:  Summary What is […]

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Equality & Ohana at Salesforce World Tour DC

Last Tuesday the AwesomeAdmin team visited DC for the first Salesforce World Tour of the year, and what a way to kick off the year! The Reagan Center was packed with Salesforce community members eager to learn more about Lightning, Einstein, and celebrate Equal Pay Day with special programming. Equal Pay Day Tuesday, April 4 […]

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Admin Stories: Unlimited Possibilities

You can do anything with Salesforce, whether it’s finding innovative ways to solve business problems, or unlocking new career possibilities. That’s the message from this round of inspiring Admin Stories from around the globe. Our Admin Stories come from near and far: Karen from Chicago via China, and Ryo and Nana from Japan. They all […]

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Different Paths, One Common Career: New Admin Stories

It was an accident. I didn’t want to be a cranky old programmer. I was looking for a better way to support my family. This is how Misty Jones, Ryan Headley, and Zac Otero became Salesforce Admins. Very different paths that all led them to create amazing careers on the Salesforce platform. One thing they […]

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Learn Lightning: AppExchange Apps & Components

Here we are, the final Learn Lightning post for this series! In the past 10 posts, I’ve taken you along my journey learning how to do common admin tasks in Lightning Experience and comparing them to Classic. We’ve learned how to navigate setup, create apps, create & clone users, create groups, create & edit objects, […]

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