Joshua Birk

Josh, also known as the “Godfather of Trailhead” after inventing the prototype, is a game-happy Admin Evangelist who is known for being the savior of stray neighborhood cats and a serious connoisseur of the latest console games. Josh has been developing since around the same time Apex could create custom SOAP endpoints.

Test for Outcomes with Flow Testing Upgrades

Test for Outcomes with Flow Testing Upgrades

Every admin knows the rule: Test in a sandbox before it breaks in production. Or as the saying goes, measure twice and cut once. When new or updated solutions are released to your users, you want to be able to predict that they will have the experience you intend. This also goes for ensuring that […]

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Automate your Back Office with Agentforce Operations

Automate Your Back Office with Agentforce Operations

As a Salesforce Admin, you and your business users are probably familiar with back-office processes you would love to automate. Like the vendor onboarding workflow that starts in Salesforce, jumps to email for document collection, touches an ERP nobody has API access to, and ends when someone manually updates a spreadsheet to say it’s done. […]

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From Chat to Calls: Introducing Agentforce Voice

From Chat to Calls: Introducing Agentforce Voice

Your customers talk to AI every day. They ask their phones for directions, tell their smart speakers to set timers for cooking, and expect voice interfaces to be available for questions. But when they call your contact center, they end up in a queue. As a Salesforce Admin, you’re the one who decides how your […]

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Introduction to Salesforce Headless 360 for Admins

Introduction to Salesforce Headless 360 for Admins

Salesforce Headless 360 is starting to show up in conversations with your developers and leadership. If you’ve been wondering what it actually means for your day-to-day life, or whether it changes anything you do, you’re in the right place. The short answer: It makes the work you already do more powerful and more reusable. Your […]

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How Slackbot Brings answers to Salesforce Admins

How Slackbot Brings Answers to Salesforce Admins

Admins have more tools and tasks than ever. But what if some of the answers could come to you instead of you hunting for them? Slackbot brings that possibility to life. Think of Slackbot as your personal digital aide, ready to help you do your job as a Salesforce Admin. It’s built right into Slack […]

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Build With Confidence: Inside the New Agentforce Builder

Build With Confidence: Inside the New Agentforce Builder

Salesforce has launched the new Agentforce Builder, a brand-new experience for building agents powered by an enhanced version of the Atlas Reasoning Engine. For admins, this new builder represents a meaningful shift in how much control, clarity, and confidence you have when designing agent behavior.  Previously, Atlas had a focus on retrieving and interpreting prompts. […]

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Introduction to Agentforce Vibes for Admins

Introduction to Agentforce Vibes for Salesforce Admins

Just as our world has become AI centric, it’s hard to see a working world in which you won’t hear about vibe coding. Vibe coding is an amazing shift in how applications are built, using natural language in a conversation to control how a solution is being built.  Agentforce Vibes is Salesforce’s implementation of it, […]

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Turn Your Data Into Custom AI Models With Einstein Studio

Turn Your Data Into Custom AI Models With Einstein Studio

Out of the box, Agentforce provides Salesforce Admins with a plethora of AI models to work with from leading vendors like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google. When using tools like Prompt Builder, admins can select these models specifically to see if different models achieve different results.   While they typically produce fairly similar results, newer or larger […]

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