Calling all Salesforce Admins! It’s time to clean off those whiteboards and sharpen your pencils- that’s right it’s Dreamforce brainstorming time. Rather than just springing the news on you — because we know that Admins have busy lives too — we are giving you a quick heads up on our Call for Presentations timeline so you […]


Thinking about Lightning but not sure where to start? Here on the Salesforce Admins team, we want to help you on your path to Lightning. As a Salesforce Administrator, you have an amazing opportunity to guide your company to the future by leading the way to Lightning – the future of Salesforce. Helpful tools and resources […]

It’s time to mark your calendars for the next Salesforce Release, Summer ’17! Here are the most important dates: April 20: Pre-Release Signup Goes Live Admins can sign up for a Developer Edition environment chock full of all the Summer ’17 features to explore to your heart’s content. Developer environments are stand-alone environments where you […]

What do the words smart cities, smart homes, artificial intelligence, and Einstein have in common? They are trends in technology that are coming your way faster than you may think. You’ve heard us talk about a smarter CRM, the many great possibilities of Salesforce Einstein. But what is it all about and how will it […]

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 […]

As a Salesforce Admin, you’ve probably dealt with picklists a lot. Last year, we released a new feature called Global Picklists to help Admins manage their picklists (if you haven’t learned about that yet, go here). Almost immediately after the Global Picklists feature was released as a Pilot program, a new idea appeared in the Success Community […]

Don’t know about you, but we’re so excited that it’s finally spring. Depending on where you live (all over the world, according to our data!), snow is melting, birds are chirping and the chill of winter is finally wearing off. For some of us, spring also marks the time for spring cleaning — a time […]

Over the past year, Salesforce has been moving department after department to Lightning Experience. It’s an exciting journey that we know you are on as well. To help you be an Awesome Admin, we talked to the admins on the Salesforce IT team to understand how they went through the process of enabling Lightning Experience. […]

There are plenty of obvious reasons to use Lightning Experience, like its modern design and streamlined user experience. But there are many great features that you might not be aware of. Here are five tricks for making Lightning Experience better for you and your users. They’re so easy that you can do them on your […]