Dust off your sunscreen and flip flops - summer is upon us! What better way to celebrate than with the new Salesforce product features in the Summer ’13 release?

Summer ’13 includes 90 new features that help companies connect to their customers in a whole new way. We are proud to announce that nearly half of the Summer ’13 features were suggested and voted on by Salesforce customers and members of the IdeaExchange community.

The release boasts awesome new social and mobile features like:

Salesforce Communities

Increase customer, partner, and employee collaboration with branded communities.

• Salesforce Communities for Sales: Sell as a team with channel partners to drive more revenue
• Salesforce Communities for Service: Solve service requests faster with connected business data
• Salesforce Communities for Marketing: Gain customer insights to accelerate new product innovation

Social.com

Create, optimize, and automate social ad campaigns from one easy-to-use platform.

• Build, test, and launch social ad campaigns at scale
• Track and analyze metrics over time
• Adjust ad spend automatically and intelligently 

New Chatter Mobile

Access, create, and act on customer information—right in the feed—from any mobile device.

• See all customer information in Salesforce
• Update contacts, accounts, opportunities, campaigns, and custom records
• Share files, photos, polls, tasks, thanks, and more

Be sure to visit trust.salesforce.com to learn when the Summer ’13 release will go live on your instance of Salesforce. And in the meantime, check out the release preview on our website or on Facebook, where you can view feature demos and screenshots, and access release related resources like the Release Notes and Release Preview. And don’t forget to “Like,” comment on, share, and tweet about your favorite new features.