Last month we launched a contest to send a Salesforce Sales Engineer to Paris and to LeWeb, Europe’s #1 technology conference, founded by Geraldine and Loic LeMeur. Today we are pleased to announce that the lucky winner is Trevor McClaren.
Trevor is eagerly awaiting heading to Paris on December 7,8 and 9 and is already working on his French. Can you blame him? Speakers include Eric Schmidt, Sean Parker, Kevin Rose, Marissa Mayer and many more. You can find the full list here.
Many thanks to everyone who entered the contest. If you didn’t win, you can still attend. Tickets are still available at LeWeb.
Bon voyage, Trevor, and enjoy your trip to Paris and LeWeb. Psst…don’t forget how to say Seesmic in French. It’s easy: Seeees-mic.
In the midst of Dreamforce 2011, 45,000 attendees and hundreds of booths, Seesmic CRM for Android Beta went live in the Android Market. Not just any beta, Loic demo’d Seesmic CRM for Android live on stage at the Keynote, and we spent four days demo’ing the app at the Seesmic booth. The public unveiling, however, does not represent all of the work that went on behind the scenes. We want to thank everyone who is a part of Team Seesmic – you made the launch possible.
The team, the team, the team Stephane Delbecque, Director of Mobile Products at Seesmic, lead Seesmic’s Development and QA teams to deliver both the Android beta and the upcoming iPhone and iPad Seesmic CRM applications.
The Seesmic team is made up of some of the smartest, most passionate and thoughtful people in the industry. It is impossible to be a part of this team without realizing this, so please forgive the outpour of Seesmic love here, because this team earned it.
salesforce.com We remain grateful to Salesforce, both a great partner and investor in Seesmic. Together Seesmic and Salesforce are a force to be reckoned with – pun intended. We look forward to continuing to work together to define the future of mobile CRM.
Users Users power our roadmap. The Android beta is an open invitation to join the roadmap, and Salesforce powerusers are driving. As an agile development shop, we rely on this feedback for each release, and there are many releases to come. Our users guide both Seesmic CRM and Seesmic Social’s roadmaps. Bonus points for users like Thomas Gagne, of Xede Consulting, who downloaded the app and stopped by the booth ASAP to share his feedback. Thank you, Thomas, for letting us capture this awesomeness on camera:
MotorolaJae Shin, Director of Enterprise Solutions at Motorola, took great care of our team throughout Dreamforce. Motorola loaned us a slew of Droid 3′s to demo Seesmic CRM and offered up a Motorola Xoom to raffle at the booth. What’s more, Joseph Avila, Enterprise Training Manager at Motorola, joined us at the Seesmic booth for the entire event. Congrats to Rajeev Iyer, Commerical Services Manager at Comcast, who is the proud new owner of a Motorla Xoom (Psst…we threw in a Seesmic CRM tshirt, too).
The Seesmic team is made up of many players, and we thank all of you for your part in launching Seesmic CRM for Android beta. We have only just begun, and we look forward to continuing to work together in the future.
We also got to meet Kevin Marks, Vice President of Open Cloud Standards at salesforce.com, that shared with us what the value of the social mobile enterprise is:
As well as Esteban Kolsky, an Advisor at Constellation Research and Founder of ThinkJar, who shared his thoughts on implementing a mobile CRM strategy:
And last but not least, Cedric Ingrand, Associate Editor for LCI, a French television station, specialized in everything high-tech, web, and multimedia explained how internal social networks can revolutionize the enterprise. Linking social internally and externally can create complex problems but limitless possibilities (sub-titles in English are available by clicking the “CC” button):
Thanks to everyone that made Dreamforce 2011 such a hit ! See you all next year…
As we pointed out yesterday, Seesmic’s social “DNA” has been a founding block since its beginning, and is a key part of who we are as we move into the enterprise space. The social mobile enterprise is a notion that Seesmic is working to make a reality.
Here at Dreamforce, salesforce.com’s annual conference, we caught up with Tom McCleary, salesforce.com‘s Senior Director of Product Strategy, to ask him about his vision of the social mobile enterprise :
As well as our own Director of Mobile Products, Stéphane Debelque, who explained the vision behind Seesmic CRM :
Seesmic CRM for Salesforce Beta is the best way to manage your Salesforce CRM life in one powerful and simple app. Increase your productivity to the max. Spend less time logging information in the office and more time in the field. Easily look up information on Leads, Contacts, Accounts and Opportunities before calls or meetings. Keep track of what was said by logging phone calls and meeting minutes, and by creating activities and follow-up tasks. Stay up to date and in sync with your team.
The Seesmic CRM for Salesforce Beta application features include:*
- Full integration of salesforce.com standard Objects (Leads, Contacts, Accounts and Opportunities) and Activities (Create a Task, Create an Event, Log a Call, Send an Email).
- Full implementation of custom fields and access rights granted by the Org Admin.
- Quick Object and Activity creation and editing.
- Quick access to Activities and Chatter news feeds related to any Standard Object.
- Personalization of the Object display and field management.
- Sort Opportunities, Tasks and Events based on various Object-related criteria.
- Total confidence with a 3-level security approach: secured connection to the Salesforce server, encrypted database and PIN code protection.
*This application works for Enterprise Edition and above. Please contact your Salesforce rep. to enable it for your Org, if you’re using any other edition.
More to come
- Full implementation of custom Objects
- Social Context
- Notifications
- Shortcuts
- Attachments
- Geolocation
- More languages
This is just the beginning. Now that Seesmic CRM for Android Beta is live, let the conversations – and iterations – begin.
