May 5Adventures in LlamaSite: A #foodforce Success StoryOnce upon a time…isn’t that the way every fairy tale starts? Once upon a time, the Salesforce #trailblazercommunity got together on a regular basis. Sometimes it was a few people at a local community group meeting; sometimes it was several hundred at a volunteer led community event, like Northeast Dreamin…Salesforce4 min read
Feb 3Adventures in LlamaSite: AccessibilityAre you reading this with a screen reader? Have you ever struggled to read the information on a website? Do you have some other challenge that makes interacting with online media difficult? If the answer is “yes”, you are probably already completely aware of how important accessibility is online. …Accessibility3 min read
Jan 17Adventures in LlamaSite: More vaccination helpIn the quick adventure, How to Handle Proof of Vaccination, I outlined how you can leverage LlamaSite and Salesforce to gather vaccination information for event attendees, volunteers, and other groups of humans as they register. But, what if those folks are already registered users in your LlamaSite portal? They are…Salesforce4 min read
Jan 4Adventures in LlamaSite: How to handle proof of vaccinationIs your organization requiring proof of vaccination for COVID? If not, you have probably had to share your vaccination record somewhere. The rules change so quickly; you may have seen that the CDC just announced a 5-day quarantine for asymptomatic COVID positive people rather than the 10-day quarantine. …Salesforce3 min read
Dec 20, 2021Adventures in LlamaSiteLast week’s adventure was an opportunity to explore how LlamaSite might be able to help a group very near and dear to my heart: Dreamin event organizers! You’ve probably heard of a few of these Dreamin events? Here’s hoping they are all in person and safe for everyone to attend…4 min read
Dec 6, 2021Adventures in LlamaSite: My pandemic baby…In the last several months, I have been overjoyed to welcome so many new #babyblazers (as we call them in the #trailblazercommunity) to the world! In March of 2020, we all thought the pandemic would be short-lived, right? By November of 2020, we wondered if we would ever NOT be…Foodies4 min read
Nov 15, 2021A practical application of diversity and innovationIf you’ve seen my #AmIonMute presentation, you know that diversity and inclusion is vitally important to me personally. Besides being the human thing to do, it’s also the best business decision to foster innovation. Hearing and heeding those diverse voices is the key. And, it’s not just me saying this…Diversity2 min read
Jul 29, 2020Three, Free, 5-Minute Ways to Increase your Nonprofit Impact!“Back in the day” when we still presented in person in various and sundry parts of the world, I had the opportunity to share with nonprofits at Texas Dreamin’ how they could leverage the power of Salesforce’s AI, aka Einstein, to increase their productivity and their impact. After my presentation…Nonprofit3 min read
Apr 5, 2020Bringing your whole self to work in the time of COVIDReading the morning tweets, I came across this image of Kate Lessard saying, “Hubs made this for me in case I need it #truelove”. She looked beautiful, as always, and the mask, I guess, made me notice her eyebrows so I asked if salons were still open where she is…Covid 195 min read
Mar 13, 2020“_________ is canceled.”(fill in the blank) — There has been so much talk this week about what is canceled and what is postponed and who has been asked to work from home and all the disruption that the #coronavirus pan(dem)ic has caused. There are never any guarantees but, today, everything seems particularly uncertain. …Pandemic3 min read