GSATC wants to know; who out there is interested in joining a SalesForce.com user group! We want to know who wants to meet up, put together some events and build a SalesForce.com community with us. If you’re interested in learning why SalesForce.com is worth creating a group over and would like to help others, then turn yourself in!
If you’re interested in joining forces, click here
We got a lot of requests for the slides from Peter Coffee’s February Learning Lunch presentation on Creating Cloud Communities. We also have the video and audio files are in post production and hope to have them posted soon as well.
6:00pm GSP Developers Guild
Andy Bruss will demonstrate how to use Red Gate’s ANTS memory profiler. This tool makes it easy to profile .NET code and find memory leaks.
7:00pm PC User Group
The PC User’s Group meeting this month will continue to discuss Windows 7, covering changes, new features and advantages of the 32 or 64 bit, Home or Pro versions.
12:00pm Radio: Your Day
A live call-in hour on the Internet, computers, and related technologies. Eric Rodgers hosts Phil Yanov, President of the GSA Technology Council and Thinkhammer. Listeners can call in via the tollfree number 888-539-8859 to ask questions about the Internet, computers, new digital devices and related topics in consumer electronics or listen to the live webstream.
5:30pm Tech After 5
Join us for our monthly gathering at Barley’s Tap Room. It’s a chance to make significant connections in a casual atmosphere.
6:00pm PMI Chapter Meeting
Featured speaker is Rick A. Morris, PMP, is an ITIL Practitioner, consultant, author, mentor, and creator of a non-profit foundation to promote Project Management in charities and other non-profit organizations. He will discuss How to Deal With Mandated Dates, How to Improve Team Estimates, and How to Avoid the Project Blame Game.
See more events on the GSATC Event Calendar.
6pm – 8:30pm SQL Server Innovators Guild
At the February meeting the group will cover SQL Server Reporting Services. SSRS is a powerful reporting system, yet some things are not has intuitive and straight forward as report designers would like them to be. The group will specifically discuss four SSRS report design challenges.
The SQL Server Innovators Guild is a Microsoft SQL Users group serving SQL Server developers, project managers, DBAs and network administrators. The Guild strives to educate, inform and inspire their members to use SQL Server more effectively to overcome business and other information challenges.
Peter Coffee joined salesforce.com in January of 2007, after spending 18 years as an analyst and columnist at the enterprise technology journal eWEEK (including time under its former title PC Week). On February 10th, he will speak at the GSA Technology Council Learning Lunch on the topic of using online tools and cloud computing to build communities of customers. The lunch is open to the public. Registration is at http://www.GSATC.org.
Description:
Lunch: Creating Cloud Communities: Making Your Customers Your Partners
Presented by: Peter Coffee, SalesForce.com
Date: February 10, 2010
Time: 11:30am – 1:00pm
Where: Embassy Suites, Greenville, SC
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so here are two pictures, made up mostly of words, that tell you who is coming to Tech After Five and what they are looking for.
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Our October presentation was delivered by Target Marketing magazine’s 2008 Direct Marketer of the Year. Pamela Ansley Evans is the Global Web Marketing Manager for the IBM Software Group. She has responsibility for IBM Worldwide web marketing strategies, web analytics and content on Software Group customer websites in over 70 countries. Enjoy and learn from from this podcast episode of our Oct. 2009 Learning Lunch.
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Want to make connections with other tech professionals or entrepreneurs? Your first best chance of doing that at Tech After Five is January 20! It’s the first Ta5 of 2010, so make sure you have reserved your spot! We’ll be meeting at Barley’s Taproom from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm and it’s a great opportunity to see what is going on in the Upstate’s tech economy.
Learn how to become a member on the Join Us Tab!
The GSATC Learning Lunch is today. Online registration is now closed. We still welcome walk up registration to the event. Onsite registration is $25.
Who is signed up for today? There will be over 100 people who describe themselves with professional titles like:
From companies like:
We hope you’ll join us.
Our December event was Gadgetfest 2009. Quite a few members of the GSATC showcased various tech gadgets from online services like Goog411, the Android Smart Phone and inventions by local entrepreneurs.
Photos by Patrick Greer. See the entire collection on Flickr.
