#1MinuteTip With iOS 16.2 on iPhone, iPadOS 16.2 on iPad and macOS Ventura 13.1 on MacBooks, you now get a new app from Apple called “Freeform”. This can be a great tool for Salesforce Professionals to use as a digital whiteboard to brainstorm ideas, draw system landscape, ERD, process flows etc.
If you own any of these Apple devices, do check it out.
There are various Salesforce events and conferences happening throughout the year. It includes the official events organized by Salesforce itself and other events organized by Trailblazer Community members. These events and conferences offer great opportunities to learn and network. Here’s a list of most popular Salesforce Events and Conferences.
Paid three-day event for Salesforce customers and prospective customers who are striving to build a direct relationship with their customers.
The agenda features content designed for Marketing, advertising, commerce, and service technology buyers
Attend transformative breakout and theater sessions, see immersive demos, join interactive group discussions, and network with peers, experts, and leaders across industries
Takes place in Chicago in the summer season; usually in the month of June
Live, free events hosted by Salesforce experts for customer success in different languages such as English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, etc.
Connect with specialists to get the latest best practices
In-person events include Circles of Success which are group clinics with Salesforce customers focused on key adoption-related topics and challenges. These 60-90 minute sessions are live, interactive, unscripted, and consultative in nature.
Online events include:
Webinars
Ask an Expert – Talk with Salesforce experts and learn from your peers, as Salesforce answers Lightning Adoption, Approaches to Challenges, Best Practices, and How-To questions live!
Accelerator Webinars – One-hour coaching sessions by experts on a particular topic, live or on-demand. Premier Support customers get a 1:1 follow-up session to answer any outstanding questions.
A Mind Mapping Tool is a visual way to organize your thoughts and ideas and is great for brainstorming. You can use a combination of texts, pictures, colors, icons, drawings, videos, and link everything together.
Experts say that there are two sides of the brain. One side that is more analytical and methodical and another side is more creative and artistic. A mind map tool will allow you to engage both sides of the brain in your thought process.
In Salesforce Context, I have used it to organize my thoughts on coming up with solution approaches. For example, as an Architect, if I need to design how to share records in Salesforce, I created a mindmap and listed 20 ways to do it. Next time when I need to design a solution for sharing records, I just need to look at this mindmap and choose the most appropriate solution.
Or as an admin, if I need to know what are the different monitoring and auditing tools in Salesforce, creating a mindmap gave me a quick way to recap all the different options in just under a minute or two.
I have found it to be quite useful, not only in my work, but also in my personal life. So why not give it a try and see if sticks with you. If not, just throw it away.
Here is the list of some of the most popular mind mapping tools for you to choose from.
(Tools, that I personally use or have used and recommend are marked with a heart)
In simple terms, you will use a CI/CD (stands “Continous Integration” & “Continuous Delivery”) tool in Salesforce to deploy metadata from one org to another org. CI/CD help you deliver configuration & code changes frequently, reliably, and automatically. It also helps you catch errors early in the development process and not right before deployment.
Here is the list of some of the most popular CI/CD tools for you to choose from.
(Tools, that I personally use or have used and recommend are marked with a heart)
An open-source framework for building portable automation for Salesforce projects on Github
Developed by the Salesforce.org release engineering team to solve common challenges faced during the development and release of Salesforce managed package projects
Here is a list of resources where you are going to find videos on webinars, sessions, tutorials, tips & tricks on Salesforce. This list contains the channels from Salesforce itself and channels from the community
Run by Shrey Sharma, Salesforce MVP. Produces video content every week to help people start their career in Salesforce and also learn from the knowledge & experience of its team
Helps people visualise the concepts of Salesforce & entertain them a little bit while teaching so that learning & working in Salesforce can be fun
Have I missed any other useful channel here? Please feel free to mention it in the comments below for other readers’ benefit.
Want to see a list of more of such useful resources & tools under different categories? Please do take a look at the resources page.
