Jul 16, 2013 By Olivia Reeves

BizAcademy - The BIG & Final Day

For the last day of BizAcademy, the three teams presented to the best of their team and individual abilities to showcase all that they had learn over the four days. The "Dragon Panel" was a variety of external salesforce.com partners, including Perpetual, McGrath, NSW Health and the... Read More

Charity, Community

Jul 11, 2013 By Olivia Reeves

BizAcademy - The Lizard Panel

BizAcademy was in full throttle yesterday, with the teams rehearsing their pitches all morning in preparation the The Lizard Panel. The Lizard Panel is made of internal salesforce.com managers, and each serve as a judge of the team's presentation skills. This is all to aid their preparation... Read More

Charity, Community

Jul 10, 2013 By Olivia Reeves

BizAcademy - Taking Risks

Do you want to meet the man who launched Spotify in Australia? An Irish lass who quit the world of finance to start an NGO in Tanzania? A woman who started her own salesforce.com consulting practice?  Yesterday BizAcademy did just that and heard about the risks these leaders did and... Read More

Charity, Community

Jul 09, 2013 By Olivia Reeves

BizAcademy - The Candidates Perspective

At BizAcademy yesterday, I get to know some of the candidates over lunch. Such inquisitive and very friendly characters they all are! Here is what they think of the program so far: What made you sign up for the program? A number of the candidates wanted to focus on their lives and their current... Read More

Charity, Community

Jul 08, 2013 By Olivia Reeves

The BizAcademy Program - What is it ?

I recently learnt about the rewarding and opportunity creating program held by the Salesforce.com Foundation every July in Sydney called BizAcademy. After learning about the end goals of the program, I felt lucky and grateful for all of the support I have personally experienced throughout my... Read More

Charity, Cloud, Featured, Social

Jul 08, 2013 By Olivia Reeves

The Biz Academy Program - What is it ?

        I recently learnt about the rewarding and opportunity creating program held by Salesforce Sydney every July called BizAcademy. After learning about the end goals of the programI felt lucky and grateful for the life I have personally... Read More

Jul 08, 2013 By Mark Vozzo

Webinar: Essential Search Marketing Tips for Business [Slides]

I have attended many webinars over the years, but on 3rd July, the tables were turned and I became the host. Out of the 120+ that registered for my session: "Essential Search Marketing Tips for Business" we had over 60 people dail in (which was amazing).  The other person in this... Read More

Featured, Marketing, Small Business

Jul 04, 2013 By Marc Lehmann

Check List for Financial Year End

Following-up on my post from last week, below is a checklist I have personally built up over time and expanded out for this post. It doesn't have everything but is a good starting point for getting into the habit of preparing for taxt time. Bear in mind I'm not a tax advisor, this is just... Read More

Small Business

Jul 03, 2013 By Salesforce

IT Projects and the Organisation of the Future

As I've been writing about the organisation of the future, two key drivers for change have been agility and appropriate economics. When we put this into an IT context, what this means is that IT projects in the future, even more than today, need to be completed on-time, and on-budget. In IT... Read More

Cloud, Developer, Featured