TheDreamforceevent is four months away. This is its 8th year and last year more than 20,000 people gathered in San Francisco to attend this Salesforce.com event and learn about cloud computing.
Date: December 6-9, 2010
Location: San Francisco, California
Who attends?
Service professionals
Sales professionals
Marketing professionals
Salesforce.com administrators
IT professionals
What’s involved in the Dreamforce schedule?
You can choose from 325+ sessions with 700 speakers and 30+ hands-on-labs.
Keynotes What’s next in cloud computing?
Tracks and sessions This year, you can choose from 6 role-based tracks and over 325 sessions where you’ll learn best practices and get insider tips from expert panels and case studies.
Many government agencies are using online tools to improve staff productivity and services to citizens. This blog post highlights a few of the social media tools and best practices being used by government: Chatter, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, and YouTube.
1. Chatter
Salesforce.com’s Chatter is useful for internal collaboration. Government agencies that use Salesforce for managing data whether for contacts or community development applications or financial processes can talk real-time using Chatter.
Twitter continues to grow in popularity and government agencies are using twitter to share information and to promote views and events.
Cities are using twitter for many communications such as: spreading the word about an upcoming city council meeting; announcing a road closure; or inviting input on a topic. Mashable.com has a list of cities on twitter http://mashable.com/twitterlists/cities/
Govtwit has a list of of government agencies and elected officials on Twitter, tracking state/local, federal, contractors, media, academics, non-profits and government outside of the U.S.
Politwitter has a list of Canadian government officials on Twitter.
The Dreamforce event is four months away. This is its 8th year and last year more than 20,000 people gathered in San Francisco to attend this Salesforce. ...
