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WizardCast

123 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 20 ratings

The podcast for salesforce.com products, features, and community all with a sense of humor. Perfect for Salesforce Admins, Salesforce Developers, and other Salesforce professionals everywhere.

Brian Kwong - aka Salesforce Wizard - and Mark Ross - aka Salesforce Yoda - explore the world of salesforce.com with some fun and humor. Learn tips and tricks, Salesforce career options, new features, and other topics around the Salesforce world all with a smiles and puns.

Listeners are invited to interact with us. Maybe we'll interview you or you could join us for a quiz episode. Perhaps you'll send us a question or a bit of audio we can play on the podcast.

So come and join us. I hope you learn something. I hope you laugh. Above all I hope you have some fun.

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Compassionate Documentation WizardCast Episode 117

January 26, 2022 16:00 - 51 minutes - 26.6 MB

Send Us Your Feedback & Suggestions! Voicemail: 608.492.0321 (Note please tell us in your message if you do NOT want your voicemail to be included in the podcast). Email: [email protected] Website: https://thewizardnews.com/wizardcast_home/contact-us-wizardcast We know it's been a while. Things have been a bit rough pandemic-wise in the studio. Here's an interview we actually recorded mid-2021 with Jon Varese. Jon is the Senior Director, Documentation, Salesforce.org at S...

Salesforce Summer '21 Release Note Overview WizardCast 116

July 06, 2021 17:00 - 56 minutes - 34.8 MB

Send Us Your Feedback & Suggestions! Voicemail: 608.492.0321 (Note please tell us in your message if you do NOT want your voicemail to be included in the podcast). Email: [email protected] Website: https://thewizardnews.com/wizardcast_home/contact-us-wizardcast It's the lazy days of summer, and because of that our Salesforce Summer 21 release notes overview is out AFTER the release. Okay, it wasn't really laziness just lots of schedule conflicts. In this episode, Mark and Br...

Debugging Flow with Tim Peng WizardCast 115

May 13, 2021 16:00 - 55 minutes - 34 MB

Send Us Your Feedback & Suggestions! Voicemail: 608.492.0321 (Note please tell us in your message if you do NOT want your voicemail to be included in the podcast). Email: [email protected] Website: https://thewizardnews.com/wizardcast_home/contact-us-wizardcast We're talking about the history of debugging flows. What we used to have to do and how we got to have the tools we now have - including new debugging updates in Summer '21 release. Tim Peng - Directory of Product Mana...

We’re Back! A Spring 21 Release Notes Story Episode 114

February 23, 2021 17:57 - 1 hour - 33.7 MB

Send Us Your Feedback & Suggestions! Voicemail: 608.492.0321 (Note please tell us in your message if you do NOT want your voicemail to be included in the podcast). Email: [email protected] Website: https://thewizardnews.com/wizardcast_home/contact-us-wizardcast It's been a while since the last episode. Thanks for your patience during this pandemic scheduling craziness. We're here to share what's coming in the Spring '21 release. So stay awhile and listen! Show Overview 0:...

True to the Confetti with Aria Niazi and Scott Allan WizardCast 113

September 14, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 31.4 MB

Send Us Your Feedback & Suggestions! Voicemail: 608.492.0321 (Note please tell us in your message if you do NOT want your voicemail to be included in the podcast). Email: [email protected] Website: https://thewizardnews.com/wizardcast_home/contact-us-wizardcast True to the core (TTTC) sessions are now virtual and Monthly via Trailhead Live! Scott Allan, Senior Manager Product Strategy of Customer & Market Insights at Salesforce, joins us to talk about why this is a big deal ...

Midwest Streaming with Peter Coffee WizardCast 112

August 24, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 39.7 MB

Send Us Your Feedback & Suggestions! Voicemail: 608.492.0321 (Note please tell us in your message if you do NOT want your voicemail to be included in the podcast). Email: [email protected] Website: https://thewizardnews.com/wizardcast_home/contact-us-wizardcast We couldn't hold Midwest Dreamin' this year due to the pandemic. So we decided to bring you an opening keynote session closing keynote podcast streamed for your safety and convenience. Peter Coffee with a special in...

User Experience with David Tsai WizardCast 111

June 22, 2020 18:00 - 51 minutes - 26.5 MB

Send Us Your Feedback & Suggestions! Voicemail: 608.492.0321 (Note please tell us in your message if you do NOT want your voicemail to be included in the podcast). Email: [email protected] Website: https://thewizardnews.com/wizardcast_home/contact-us-wizardcast What is User Experience and why is it important to us as Admin and Devs?  Show Overview 0:00 I give up! 1:31 Introduction 2:31 Joke 3:36 David Tsai User Experience Lead for IdeaExchange at Salesforce 4:42 What ...

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June 05, 2020 15:59 - 1 minute - 575 KB

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IdeaExchange Prioritization with Anusha Surepeddi and Scott Allan

May 18, 2020 18:00 - 54 minutes - 30.3 MB

Send Us Your Feedback & Suggestions! Voicemail: 608.492.0321 (Note please tell us in your message if you do NOT want your voicemail to be included in the podcast). Email: [email protected] Website: https://thewizardnews.com/wizardcast_home/contact-us-wizardcast First, the IdeaExchange Prioritization can get 4000 participants, there will be a donation of $10,000 to habitat for humanity. So get out there, prioritize and then share! We have 2 weeks to accomplish this. Second,...

What if we were not afraid with Kristen Engelhardt WizardCast 109

May 04, 2020 18:00 - 45 minutes - 27.2 MB

Send Us Your Feedback & Suggestions! Voicemail: 608.492.0321 (Note please tell us in your message if you do NOT want your voicemail to be included in the podcast). Email: [email protected] Website: https://thewizardnews.com/wizardcast_home/contact-us-wizardcast You're not imagining it! A need episode of the WizardCast is here! It's been a very rocky 2020 so far and we're far behind schedule. Thank you for all our listeners for sticking with us. We have a special episode in...

Spring 20 Release Overview WizardCast 108

February 24, 2020 19:00 - 39 minutes - 25.5 MB

Send Us Your Feedback & Suggestions! Voicemail: 608.492.0321 (Note please tell us in your message if you do NOT want your voicemail to be included in the podcast). Email: [email protected] Website: https://thewizardnews.com/wizardcast_home/contact-us-wizardcast Salesforce Spring 20 release is here and is it full of goodness. We take a quick overview of some of the features we're excited, think are noteworthy, or simply just confuse us. Check out our overview of what's grow...

Never Gonna Give Flow Up with Shannon Hale and Jason Teller WizardCast 107

January 27, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour - 37.5 MB

Send Us Your Feedback & Suggestions! Voicemail: 608.492.0321 (Note please tell us in your message if you do NOT want your voicemail to be included in the podcast). Email: [email protected] Website: https://thewizardnews.com/wizardcast_home/contact-us-wizardcast It's no secret that Mark and Brian love Salesforce Flow. This episode we are joined by two great Senior Directors of Product Management of Flow at Salesforce! Shannon Hale and Jason Teller share some of the upcoming f...

Origins of 100 Days of Code with Jessica Murphy WizardCast 106

January 14, 2020 19:00 - 38 minutes - 25.3 MB

Send Us Your Feedback & Suggestions! Voicemail: 608.492.0321 (Note please tell us in your message if you do NOT want your voicemail to be included in the podcast). Email: [email protected] Website: https://thewizardnews.com/wizardcast_home/contact-us-wizardcast Welcome to the first episode of Season 5 of the WizardCast posted in the year of the hindsight (2020)! New Years is a time for resolutions, and what better way than to resolve to improve our knowledge and skills. 100 ...

Importance of Customer Service with Dr Natalie Petouhoff WizardCast episode 105

December 23, 2019 16:00 - 56 minutes - 34.6 MB

Send Us Your Feedback & Suggestions! Voicemail: 608.492.0321 (Note please tell us in your message if you do NOT want your voicemail to be included in the podcast). Email: [email protected] Website: https://thewizardnews.com/wizardcast_home/contact-us-wizardcast Dr. Natalie Petouhoff shares her thoughts on Customer Service.  She has a PHD of Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. She's a connoisseur of customer service and is passionate about making the w...

Dreamforce Awesome Admin Keynote 2019 WizardCast 104

November 25, 2019 20:30 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MB

Send Us Your Feedback & Suggestions! Voicemail: 608.492.0321 (Note please tell us in your message if you do NOT want your voicemail to be included in the podcast). Email: [email protected] Website: https://thewizardnews.com/wizardcast_home/contact-us-wizardcast Click here to post a tweet! We're live at the Awesome Admin keynote at Dreamforce 2019! I'm joined by replacement Mark - John Graf, co-host of Cloudforce Collective podcast.  We're asking only the most hard-hitti...

Dreamforce 2019 Main Keynote Extravaganza WizardCast 103

November 20, 2019 06:48 - 46 minutes - 31.5 MB

Send Us Your Feedback & Suggestions! Voicemail: 608.492.0321 (Note please tell us in your message if you do NOT want your voicemail to be included in the podcast). Email: [email protected] Website: https://thewizardnews.com/wizardcast_home/contact-us-wizardcast Brian traveled to Dreamforce to find just who really booked Parker Harris. Since he was here, he decided he might as well do a podcast and find out just what people are hoping, expecting, and dreading to hear in this ...

Midwest Dreamin, Acquisitions, Data Stewards and More with Peter Coffee WizardCast episode 102

November 05, 2019 19:00 - 41 minutes - 25.6 MB

Send Us Your Feedback & Suggestions! Voicemail: 608.492.0321 (Note please tell us in your message if you do NOT want your voicemail to be included in the podcast). Email: [email protected] Website: https://thewizardnews.com/wizardcast_home/contact-us-wizardcast Share this episode on Twitter Peter Coffee, VP of Strategic Research at Salesforce, is a frequent guest on the WizardCast. Peter was nice enough to sit down with Brian during MidWest Dreamin' 2019 in Chicago to talk...

5 Years of Trailhead with Chris Duarte WizardCast 101

October 21, 2019 18:00 - 45 minutes - 28.4 MB

Send Us Your Feedback & Suggestions! Voicemail: 608.492.0321 (Note please tell us in your message if you do NOT want your voicemail to be included in the podcast). Email: [email protected] Website: https://thewizardnews.com/wizardcast_home/contact-us-wizardcast HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! We'd love it if you could please share #WizardCast with your twitter followers. Click here to post a tweet! Click to Tweet Chris Duarte, VP of Trailhead Content at Salesforce, is here to cel...

Parker Harris Has Arrived! WizardCast Episode 100

October 07, 2019 19:30 - 39 minutes - 23.7 MB

Send Us Your Feedback & Suggestions! Voicemail: 608.492.0321 (Note please tell us in your message if you do NOT want your voicemail to be included in the podcast). Email: [email protected] Website: https://thewizardnews.com/wizardcast_home/contact-us-wizardcast Share This Episode on Twitter It has taken us 4 years and 100 episodes. Parker Harris - co-founder of Salesforce, Overseer of Product Strategy, Member of Salesforce Board of Directors - is here on the WizardCast.  ...

BONUS: A Public Service Announcement about Episode 100

October 03, 2019 13:46 - 1 minute - 2.47 MB

This is an important public service announcement regarding the upcoming episode 100.  Apologies to Bye Bye Birdie and the artist that composed and wrote this song and musical. Share this Bonus: Click here to post a tweet!  Lyrics [Brian] Me, interviewing Parker Harris? [Mark] Parker Harris [Brian] Us, Brian and Mark recording with [Mark] Parker Harris   [Both] Parker, Parker Harris   [Both] Parker Harris, Parker Harris We're gonna talk to Parker Harris How could...

Salesforce Winter 20 Release WizardCast Episode 99

September 24, 2019 18:14 - 1 hour - 42.2 MB

Salesforce Winter '20 Release is nearly out! Some orgs have already received the new release on September 20. The majority of customers are getting the new update October 12. This is one big update with over 500 pages of release notes. That's a lot to read, so we read the release notes for you!  This is definitely not everything, but we pull our highlights for the Winter '20 release into this podcast. Send Us Your Feedback & Suggestions! Voicemail: 608.492.0321 (Note please tell us in ...

Announcing Einstein Search with Alexander Lovell WizardCast Episode 98

September 19, 2019 15:00 - 41 minutes - 23.9 MB

Send Us Your Feedback & Suggestions! Voicemail: 608.492.0321 (Note please tell us in your message if you do NOT want your voicemail to be included in the podcast). Email: [email protected] Website: https://thewizardnews.com/wizardcast_home/contact-us-wizardcast Share this episode on twitter Alexander Lovell announces Einstein Search coming to Salesforce in the Winter '20 release! Alexander is the Director of Product Management for Salesforce Search.  Einstein Search brin...

Reimagined Salesforce IdeaExchange with Jennifer Sacks and Scott Allan WizardCast episode 97

September 09, 2019 18:00 - 55 minutes - 32.1 MB

Send Us Your Feedback & Suggestions! Voicemail: 608.492.0321 (Note please tell us in your message if you do NOT want your voicemail to be included in the podcast). Email: [email protected] Website: https://thewizardnews.com/wizardcast_home/contact-us-wizardcast In 2018, Steve Molis posted an Idea which sparked a loud outcry of agreement from the community. Salesforce simply was not doing a good enough job with the IdeaExchange and communication. A year later, Jennifer Sack...

A Pod for Pardot with Andrea Tarrell WizardCast Episode 96

August 27, 2019 19:00 - 48 minutes - 28.2 MB

Marketing automation has been a growing in popularity over the years. Salesforce has two platforms, Marketing Cloud and Pardot. What's the difference? What can you do with Pardot? Andrea Tarrell from Sercante answers these questions and more. 0:00 No Bears were harmed in the recording of this episode 1:14 Intro 2:44 Bearly a joke 3:24 Anderea Tarrell - Spot for Pardot 4:45 Andrea Tarrell vs Chris Zullo ... Fight! 13:10 Twitter Fights 16:05 Cool Example of Marketing email 19:20 Hmmm ...

Campfire Stories and IT Leadership with Justice Sikakane WizardCast 95

August 12, 2019 18:00 - 51 minutes - 28.8 MB

Send Us Your Feedback & Suggestions! Voicemail: 608.492.0321 (Note please tell us in your message if you do NOT want your voicemail to be included in the podcast). Email: [email protected] Website: https://thewizardnews.com/wizardcast_home/contact-us-wizardcast What it like to be an IT Leader in the day of Salesforce? What is the Campfire Stories podcast? Our guest really does the WizardCast Justice... Justice Sikakane, Co-Host of the Campfire Stories podcast and IT leader a...

Salesforce community groups 1000 strong and Growing with Sofia Rodriguez WizardCast 94

July 23, 2019 18:00 - 46 minutes - 28.3 MB

Send Us Your Feedback & Suggestions! Voicemail: 608.492.0321 (Note please tell us in your message if you do NOT want your voicemail to be included in the podcast). Email: [email protected] Website: https://thewizardnews.com/wizardcast_home/contact-us-wizardcast Salesforce Community Groups, or User Groups, hit 1,000 groups recently. There are groups spread across 38 countries there to support Salesforce customers. Sofia Rodriguez is the Community Manager at Salesforce and sha...

Fun Fundraising with Siebren Bakker of Fragforce WizardCast Episode 93

July 08, 2019 18:00 - 24 minutes - 15.5 MB

Send Us Your Feedback & Suggestions! Voicemail: 608.492.0321 (Note please tell us in your message if you do NOT want your voicemail to be included in the podcast). Email: [email protected] Website: https://thewizardnews.com/wizardcast_home/contact-us-wizardcast Salesforce gives employees paid volunteer hours for charity work. A group of employees banded together to play games to raise funds for Extra-Life. Their first event raised 7,000 dollars. Meet Fragforce with Nerd-n-Ch...

Partners in Salesforce with Garry Polmateer WizardCast Episode 92

June 24, 2019 18:00 - 1 hour - 43.3 MB

Send Us Your Feedback & Suggestions! Voicemail: 608.492.0321 (Note please tell us in your message if you do NOT want your voicemail to be included in the podcast). Email: [email protected] Website: https://thewizardnews.com/wizardcast_home/contact-us-wizardcast What is a Salesforce Partner? What types of partners exist? Do you want to be a Salesforce Partner? What should you expect if you're thinking of hiring a Salesforce Partner? Garry Polmateer, CEO of Red Argyle, shares ...

Salesforce Summer 19 Release WizardCast Overview Episode 91

June 10, 2019 18:00 - 1 hour - 45.5 MB

Send Us Your Feedback & Suggestions! Voicemail: 608.492.0321 (Note please tell us in your message if you do NOT want your voicemail to be included in the podcast). Email: [email protected] Website: https://thewizardnews.com/wizardcast_home/contact-us-wizardcast Salesforce Summer 19 release is nearly upon us! As always, Mark and Brian dive in to go over some of the features they're excited for... and ones we're not all that excited for.  From Lightning Experience improvemen...

Quips on Quip Automation with Arnab Bose WizardCast Episode 90

May 20, 2019 18:00 - 58 minutes - 33.9 MB

Send Us Your Feedback & Suggestions! Voicemail: 608.492.0321 (Note please tell us in your message if you do NOT want your voicemail to be included in the podcast). Email: [email protected] Website: https://thewizardnews.com/wizardcast_home/contact-us-wizardcast Salesforce is buying yet another company! Then we dive into Salesforce Quip automation with Product Manager Arnab Bose. What is Quip? What kind of automation can you do with a document? Why would I want to do this? Gu...

Salesforce.org, Community Sprints and T-Rex Oh My! WizardCast 89

May 01, 2019 15:30 - 1 hour - 36.2 MB

Send Us Your Feedback & Suggestions! Voicemail: 608.492.0321 (Note please tell us in your message if you do NOT want your voicemail to be included in the podcast). Email: [email protected] Website: https://thewizardnews.com/wizardcast_home/contact-us-wizardcast Do you work for a non-profit? Have you supported a non-profit or consult with non-profits with Salesforce? Then you don't want to miss this episode all about salesforce.org, open source and community sprints. It's ful...

April 2019 Salesforce IdeaExchange Highlight WizardCast 88

April 08, 2019 18:00 - 34 minutes - 21.7 MB

Send Us Your Feedback & Suggestions! Voicemail: 608.492.0321 (Note please tell us in your message if you do NOT want your voicemail to be included in the podcast). Email: [email protected] Website: https://thewizardnews.com/wizardcast_home/contact-us-wizardcast   It's April and Spring has sprung! We start out this episode with a surprising announcement of a new offering from Salesforce. Then we dive right into our Salesforce IdeaExchange highlight! This is an episode where...

Automation Hour with Jen Lee - WizardCast Episode 87

March 25, 2019 18:00 - 28 minutes - 17.1 MB

Send Us Your Feedback & Suggestions! Voicemail: 608.492.0321 (Note please tell us in your message if you do NOT want your voicemail to be included in the podcast). Email: [email protected] Website: https://thewizardnews.com/wizardcast_home/contact-us-wizardcast   It's been a bumpy podcasting schedule for 2019, but we're back with a new episode. If you like automation in Salesforce and do not know about Automation Hour, this is an episode you need to listen to! If you alrea...

Salesforce Spring 19 and Community Sprint WizardCast Episode 86

February 08, 2019 17:00 - 1 hour - 36.3 MB

Send Us Your Feedback & Suggestions! Voicemail: 608.492.0321 (Note please tell us in your message if you do NOT want your voicemail to be included in the podcast). Email: [email protected] Website: https://thewizardnews.com/wizardcast_home/contact-us-wizardcast The Salesforce Spring '19 release is upon us! By now you've probably read all 450+ pages of release notes, watched all the webinars, read all the blog posts and you're experts. But what features are Brian & Mark exci...

Happy New Year! Automatic Lightning Enablement for Everyone! WizardCast Episode 85

January 11, 2019 19:18 - 23 minutes - 15.2 MB

Send Us Your Feedback & Suggestions! Voicemail: 608.492.0321 (Note please tell us in your message if you do NOT want your voicemail to be included in the podcast). Email: [email protected] Website: https://thewizardnews.com/wizardcast_home/contact-us-wizardcast Happy New Year! Welcome to Season 4 and Episode 85 of the WizardCast podcast. Home to bad jokes and interesting tidbits about salesforce.com. Are you using Lightning Experience? No? Well, get ready because starting ...

Trailhead, Certifications, and Deadlines with Tracie Ozug WizardCast Episode 84

December 05, 2018 19:00 - 30 minutes - 20.3 MB

There are a changes a coming to Salesforce certifications. We get all the details from Tracie Ozug the Trailhead Program/Project Manager for Salesforce Credentials.  First, anyone who has NOT taken their Salesforce Spring '18 or Summer '18 Maintenance exams MUST finish them by December 14, 2018.  What's very important is to complete your Summer '18 exams you MUST link your Webacessor account to your trailhead account first!  Maintenance exams for Salesforce will be managed on Trailhead...

A Thankful Salesforce Community WizardCast Episode 83

November 26, 2018 19:00 - 16 minutes - 11.4 MB

It's Thanksgiving time again here in the United States. It's the first big holiday to kick off the holiday season (unless you count Halloween) and a time to share what we are thankful for. Mark and Brian talk about what they're thankful for and share community members submissions. Show Overview 0:00 Last Time on WizardCast 00:48 Introduction 01:48 Terrible Joke, thanks Jeffrey Sbonik 02:28 Happy Thanksgiving, turkey football nap day! 03:20 What we're thankful for 03:52 Brian sel...

Busting Silos with Peter Coffee WizardCast Episode 82

November 12, 2018 19:00 - 37 minutes - 25.1 MB

As the cold days of November creep upon us and we fall slowly into the dreary days of winter, the WizardCast harkens back to warmer days. Days where the sun was hot, the leaves were green, and we sat down with the great Peter Coffee at MidWest Dreamin' Peter Coffee is the VP of Strategic Research at salesforce.com. He always has some delightful perspectives and stories that make you stop and think. I always walk away from a discussion with Peter both feeling smarter and dumber. It's a very...

Salesforce Release Notes Strategies and Salesforce Winter 19 Release WizardCast Episode 81

October 29, 2018 18:00 - 45 minutes - 26.6 MB

It took us a while to return, but we're back from Dreamforce 2018! Mark and Brian explain just why it took us so long to get back and publish a new episode. Plus, we share our thoughts about Dreamforce this year. Finally, we dive into strategies for Salesforce Release Notes! Release notes are often over 300 pages long and are often ignored by Salesforce Admins and Devs. Mark and Brian share how they use the release notes and some short cuts they take to make those 300+ pages manageable. ...

Trailing the Trailhead Zone Dreamforce 2018 WizardCast 80

September 28, 2018 23:40 - 25 minutes - 24.5 MB

It's the last day of Dreamforce 2018. Mark and Brian managed to get together one last time to walk the Trailhead Zone at Moscone West. We talk to Andy Golden from Skuid about his terrible sense of humor. We chat to Jen Bowen, an attendee & my community group co-leader. We also had some run ins with Beth Breisnes , Jessica Murphy, Rachel Watson, Nate Lipke, and finally Stephanie Foerst & Rakesh Gupta from Automation Champion about Flow. Last, you may know that Brian wears a Wizard Hat and...

Dreamforce Keynotes and Admin Confessions WizardCast 79

September 26, 2018 07:24 - 13 minutes - 12.9 MB

We're live at Dreamforce 2018! We start off with a quick chat before the Salesforce Admins Keynote. It was fantastic celebration of Admins with three success stories and some insights into what's coming next on Salesforce. Plus a new Golden hoodie award! Then it's off to our annual Main keynote podcast. We got interrupted with out podcast plans and were told to sit down before we could do our normal rounds of discussion. Then the keynote started almost 20 minutes early with the dulcet to...

Experience Design with Peter Coffee Episode 78

September 18, 2018 18:45 - 16 minutes - 10.9 MB

Peter Coffee was nice enough to talk with Brian and Mark on many topics. Here's part two of our conversation with Peter Coffee, VP of Strategic Research at Salesforce, from Midwest Dreamin' 2018. The topic is Experience Design. What is experience design? Experience design is the practice of designing products, processes, services, events, and environments with a focus placed on the quality of the user experience. The photo tag is "Don't pave your cow paths." Peter tells us about Boston...

Mindful of Mindfullness with Ashima Saigal WizardCast 77

August 28, 2018 18:33 - 1 hour - 37.9 MB

Ashima Saigal from Database Sherpas talks to us about the importance of Mindfulness.  Learn what mindfulness is, why it is important, and how we can get started with some simple practice. So be mindful of mindfulness, listen, laugh, and enjoy. Show Overview 0:00 Last Time on WizardCast 01:16 Introduction 02:43 Terrible Joke 03:30 Results of the Mike Gerholdt's 70s Kid theory survey 04:37 Introducing Ashima Saigal on Mindfulness 09:05 How does Ashima gets things done with Clients ...

The Fellowship of the Peter Coffee WizardCast Episode 76

August 13, 2018 20:00 - 51 minutes - 34.9 MB

Peter Coffee returns to share his wisdom and experience. Peter is the VP for Strategic Research at Salesforce. He often speaks on the vision of the Salesforce as a platform and company and shares strategy for companies all over the world. Peter was kind enough to sit down with Mark and Brian at Midwest Dreamin 2018. He's been one of our favorite guests and was our guest in our very first live recording of the Wizardcast - also at Midwest Dreamin. We start with a story of Peter on a reali...

Navigating Your Career with Mike Gerholdt - Wizardcast 75

July 23, 2018 18:00 - 45 minutes - 27.3 MB

While Mark Ross and Brian Kwong were hanging out at Midwest Dreamin, they took the opportunity to talk to the one, the only, the simply fantastic, Mr. Admin himself - Mike Gerholdt. Mike has been in the Salesforce ohana for a long time. First, he was Mr. ButtonClick Admin and ran an extremely popular blog and podcast about Salesforce. Mike joined Salesforce in May of 2014 as an Admin Evangelist. Show Overview A Mike Gerholdt Introduction 00:00 Standard Introduction 00:26 A Mike Jo...

Midwest Dreamin 2018 LIVE - Dreamforce, an RV, and a Ring

July 05, 2018 04:45 - 18 minutes - 23.9 MB

We're live at Midwest Dreamin 2018! Wednesday, July 11th, was the opening night for Midwest Dreamin. There was a great session by Mike Gerholdt about navigating your career. It was followed by a interesting discussion with Kevin Poorman and Heather Dykstra about removing titles, design review, and how to talk and plan as a team. Then it was the opening reception. Cheese, grapes, and crackers in the expo hall. It was a good time to walk around the room to see which vendors were there and ...

PepupTech Super Charging Salesforce Skills with Andrea Perez Medrano WizardCast 73

June 26, 2018 19:00 - 37 minutes - 22.3 MB

Pepup Tech is a non-profit organization dedicated to support underrepresented groups in tech. Andrea Perez Medrano talks about her journey with PepUp Tech that led from 0 tech to Salesforce Employee in less than a year. Plus importance of Trailhead, Networking, & her tips to succeed. 0:40 Last time on the WizardCast 2:05 Introduction & Music 3:51 Joke, Bad bad joke 04:30 Hello World! 5:57 Affiliate Spot: Libsyn - free month with promocode: podmagic 6:39 WizardCast Alexa Skill 6:58 In...

Salesforce Community Events WizardCast Episode 72

June 11, 2018 19:00 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MB

Are you familiar with the Salesforce Events and Salesforce Community events going on near you? We discuss the various events and some of the benefits and difference between them. We start with the big event - Dreamforce - Salesforce's biggest annual event. We then discuss other events Salesforce puts on from Trailheadx to the World Tours & Connections. We round out our discussion with User Groups and the regional "Dreamin" events that are hosted and organized by the community itself. The...

Business Analysis and GDPR with Ian Gotts Wizardcast Episode 71

May 29, 2018 21:00 - 1 hour - 39.7 MB

Are you familiar with Business Analysis (BA)? Do you understand the importance and underlying principles? What about Europe's new regulation, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)? Are you impacted? Is your Salesforce environment prepared? Listen as we talk with Ian Gotts, founder and CEO of elements.cloud discuss the importance of Business Analysis and the impacts of GDPR.   Show Overview 00:00 Last Time on WizardCast 01:29 Introduction 02:45 The Joke 03:30 Sponsor/Affil...

Salesforce Summer 18 WizardCast Overview - Episode 70

May 11, 2018 16:30 - 59 minutes - 33.6 MB

The Salesforce Summer 18 release is nearly upon us! It's available in Sandbox previews and will be coming to a production environment near you in a few weeks! Mark & Brian go over the release notes, not quite all 494 pages. We pull out some of the interesting features coming out that Admins may be interested in.   Show Overview 00:00 Last Time on WizardCast 01:09 Introduction 02:28 The Joke 02:58 Sponsor/Affiliate mention - Get 1 month free of Libsyn podcast hosting with promo code...

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