Diary of a Saasy Girl

Last year I decided to expand on my broader learning and looked outside the usual Salesforce Community groups and events.  My first stop was a side step from technology with a few events hosted by the magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, covering topics that women may face in today’s work environment, such as the 'Mastery of Your Mindset' and a 'Power Refresh Workshop'. I also was lucky enough to attend a TedX London Women event in December. The day was packed with a range of speakers covering a multitude of subjects all dear to their heart, and the majority of speakers were women, or those who identified as women too. Earlier in the year I joined Ada’s List, an online community of like-minded people (mostly women, allies welcome) in the digital industry who openly share work, speaking and event opportunities.  It’s from Ada's list that I have found and attended 2 other groups, the Women in Technology and Telecoms and mostly recently 10 Digital Ladies.  Today I want...

Start of 2019 and we kicked off with the first London Admins Community Group for 2019. Having recently celebrated our 4th birthday we decided to make a few tweaks to our familiar format.  We’ve decided to concentrate on 2 main talks for each evening and we’ve introduced a new feature, Interview an Admin.  Many of the regulars know each other, and are social together. It’s a great family we have nurtured. But we’ve noticed, having moved to our new meeting platform that we’ve gained a wider audience and we are seeing more new faces join us each month.  So, Interview an Admin is an opportunity to give one of our members a chance to share their journey with Salesforce and their top tips. You never know, it might just inspire someone else.  For our January meeting we actually bent our new formula for a special evening with the Ladies Be Architects.  The LBA was founded by Gemma Emmett in November 2017 when she realised that studying for architecture exams was a h...

Its time to take a moment and reflect on the year 2018 and my Salesforce world. Its been a good one! February - London's Calling  The London Community Conference, London's Calling, came calling again for the 3rd year and I was lucky to be selected to be one of their speakers. This year was different for me as I volunteered to help the team to organise the day, by managing all the catering for the event and keeping the speakers to time. For the food I decided to go for pies. They are a great British institution and very warming on a cold winter's day. Just right for a conference. Bolstered with branded cakes, it was a winning formula. Who knew comfort food would be so popular... My talk was about How CPQ Gave Visibility, Control and Lessons Learnt for a Business. I had just completed my first CPQ implementation and wanted to share what I had learnt from this journey. CPQ is still quite a specialist field of knowledge and I wanted to highlight how best ...

Couple of weeks ago we held the Salesforce Community Xmas Mega Meet at IBM. It’s good to get the main London groups together as in reality we are members of more than one group and so we often inter-mingle on a regular basis. In addition to general joviality, plenty of food and drink, a quiz hosted by his Royal Highness, Peter Chittum, and a magician, each Group Leader managed to drag themselves away from yet another magnificent cake and took a moment to reflect on their year. Here I shall share what the London Admins got up to in 2018. Let’s start with the main stats that I shared at the mega meet Christmas party: We had 13 sponsors supporting our events across the year, in various locations in central London. We are very lucky that London has a large Salesforce Community with suppliers to the industry wanting to support us. We’re genuinely thankful for your enthusiasm and delighted to work with you. We are a blended community. We covered a whole range of subje...

A few Saturday’s ago I was lucky enough to attend my first TEDx London conference event. Its focus was on London Women and the theme for the day was ‘Showing up’ and to highlight the challenges that people are facing every day while trying to shape the future we all want to see. The aim of the event was about starting a movement of ideas that nurture hope, positivity and resilience - ideas that can change the world. As a conference speaker, and now co-organiser of the London’s Calling Community Conference, within the Salesforce circuit, I looked at the TEDx event with different viewpoints, consumer, speaker and organiser.  The Consumer: The venue was large and easy to get to on the Southbank. The organisers had arranged a deal with the food stalls outside with discounts on some and the ability to bring food inside. Upon registration we were given a goody bag, with items such as a notebook and snacks to keep you going throughout the day and other bits and bobs from sponsor...