Mike Gerholdt

Mike Gerholdt is the Senior Director of Salesforce Admin Evangelism at Salesforce. He is part of a group of World-class Admin Evangelists who are helping Salesforce Admins realize their dreams by being technology leaders and advancing their careers.

Twas the Night Before Deployment…

‘Twas the night before Deployment, and all through the company Not an admin was stirring, not even the new trainee. The requirements had been built out with care, In the hopes that St. Benioff soon would be there. The users were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of Dreamforce danced in their heads. […]

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Superhero Spotlight: Security Master

Last week we kicked off our series introducing our #AwesomeAdmin Superheroes and their journey through Trailhead. With Trailhead, Salesforce Admins can learn how to build cloud apps for free with fun, interactive tutorials. In the coming weeks we will introduce you to each Superhero and how they blazed their own trail, followed learning paths at their own […]

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Tim Hill on integrating Salesforce into College Curriculum

This week we talk to Tim Hill, Dept Chair,  Management Information Systems in the Lucas College and Graduate School of Business at SJSU. Tim is doing something very cool that Admins should take note of- he is integrating Salesforce into the MIS courses. In this podcast you will hear an overview of the program at San […]

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TL;DL- November

Too Long; Didn’t Listen   Welcome the first-ever “Too Long, Didn’t Listen” episode! We know that you are busy as a super #awesomeadmin, so we’ve put together this monthly re-cap episode so you can hear what you missed and get the main messages from our amazing guests. In November, we heard from some real-life #awesomeadmins […]

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Keith Sadler on Salesforce changing your life

This week on the podcast we talk to Keith Sadler, Consultant at Appirio, about how Salesforce has changed his life. In the past, Keith has wrote a guest post series on Flow for this blog but we never really dug into this journey to Salesforce. Keith tells us his story from waiting tables and doing […]

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Superhero Spotlight: Productivity Protector

This week we are kicking off our series introducing our #AwesomeAdmin Superheroes and their journey through Trailhead. With Trailhead, Salesforce Admins can learn how to build cloud apps for free with fun, interactive tutorials. In the coming weeks we will introduce you to each Superhero and how they blazed their own trail, followed learning paths at […]

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Become a Rockstar Admin with App Mashups

As Admins the bombardment of requests is spectacular. We attempt to solve these challenges with our ingenuity and using the tools that Salesforce delivers to us. The reality is that there is an AppExchange chock full of apps to assist us with extending salesforce around particular challenges. Literally thousands of apps and extensions live on […]

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Linda Hou on learning Salesforce

This week on the podcast we talk to Linda Hou, Salesforce Systems Administrator at the Grace Institute. Recorded live at the Salesforce World Tour stop in New York City on Nov. 19th, we hear from Linda as she works to implement Salesforce at a 114 year old company and how she is learning Salesforce. The […]

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How to Creatively Learn Salesforce

It’s easy to get caught up in all of the business process and problems you are trying to address at your company, and when you add learning a new platform on top of that- well, it can be overwhelming. This year Salesforce launched Trailhead, a fun and creative way to learn the platform. I highly […]

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