Oct 09, 2014 By Lisa Hammitt

My Dreamforce Hero: The Daughter of Ghanaian Immigrants, Redefining Sustainable Giving

My excellent colleagues in Corporate Marketing have been asking me for weeks to name my Heroes for Dreamforce. The problem is that I have so many of them Do I choose Rosetta Carrington-Lue of the City of Philadelphia, who has tirelessly improved the lives of our most vulnerable citizens, or Lesa... Read More

Oct 01, 2014 By Lisa Hammitt

The Devil Wears Pajamas

Let’s relive a classic scene from the 2006 movie, The Devil Wears Prada. Andie, a would-be journalist played by Anne Hathaway, has recently taken an internship at a high-end fashion magazine. Miranda, the magazine's exacting editor-in-chief (played by an inimitable Meryl Streep), is sifting... Read More

Cloud, Community, Dreamforce, Featured, Small Business

May 15, 2014 By Lisa Hammitt

Investment Communities: Innovation Meets Scale

Like seemingly half the Pacific Time Zone, I co-founded a software company in 1998. While we were able to bootstrap it for a while -- coding taking place in virtually every room of my San Francisco flat, including my workstation in the hallway -- we had some real costs that forced us to get... Read More

Cloud

Feb 26, 2014 By Lisa Hammitt

Healthcare Communities: The Power of Patient Engagement

Consider the experience of Rob Long, a veteran writer and sitcom producer, as described in his weekly radio commentary on KCRW a few years ago: Two weeks ago, I found myself in the office of a hematologist — which is a word they use because the other word is “oncologist” — and he was giving me... Read More

Cloud, Featured