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.

Wendy Braid on Successful Salesforce Training

This week on the podcast we talk to Wendy Braid, certified Salesforce.com authorized trainer and co-founder of 11Eleven Solutions. When it comes to Salesforce training, Wendy is one of the best. In this episode Wendy gives Admins her tips for a successful training session, and how she stays up to date with all of the […]

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Salesforce on Building SalesforceA

This week we talk to two people, Cameron Reynolds-Flatt and Rebecca Sherrill, who were key in helping build the SalesforceA Admin app. In this episode we get some of the history behind how the Admin app was built, sold, and demoed to various Salesforce stakeholders. But besides geeking out on the behind the scenes stuff […]

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5 forgotten Salesforce features

This past week I compiled a ton of materials to help get users up to speed fast with Salesforce. It was a lot of the basic stuff, but for me it was a good review of features that I probably forgot or took for granted. As I was combing through some previous training materials I […]

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Becky Webster on Deploying Chatter

This episode, we are talking with Becky Webster who is a Chatter expert and Manager at Acumen Solutions and a Salesforce MVP. She works with people and organizations to discover and enable new means of communication and information sharing. She has over six years of communication & customer relationship management experience and is a certified […]

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The New Habits of a Successful Salesforce Admin

This year I had the pleasure of collaborating with Jared Miller to rethink what it means to be a successful Salesforce Admin and what habits Admins should be following. Our approach was a bit different than in previous years, rather than just adding more habits we took a look at the habits I had proposed […]

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Adam Torman on the changing role of the Salesforce Admin

Adam Torman is the Director, Product Management at Salesforce.com. He is responsible for designing and managing salesforce.com user provisioning and authorization features, he has been involved in the redesigning of the core role based user authorization framework and has been a senior application instructor. Not to mention a really cool guy to present with at Dreamforce. […]

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What the new Salesforce Certification Means for Your Company

Shortly before Dreamforce 2013,  Salesforce announced that it will launch a new certification verification page on certification.salesforce.com. In addition to the new page launch they also rolled out new logos.  I’d like to focus on what this change- the addition of a new Salesforce certification verification page means for you and for your company. Transparency is […]

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Parker Harris on co-founding Salesforce.com

This week we speak with Salesforce.com Co-Founder, Parker Harris. Parker co-founded salesforce.com in the spring of 1999. Prior to founding salesforce.com, he developed cloud computing expertise at Left Coast Software, another company he co-founded in 1996, and sales force automation expertise at Metropolis Software, which was an early pioneer in field of sales force automation subsequently […]

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Shannon Hale on Declarative Apps

This week on the podcast we talk to Shannon Hale who is the Senior Product Manager, Declarative Applications at Salesforce.com. She collaborates with customers, designers, and software engineers to produce usable, useful software applications. We cover how she got started at Salesforce and uncover what exactly a “Declarative App” is. Of course we can’t talk to Shannon and […]

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