Only the Strongest Professions Have the Strongest Associations
“Only the strongest professions have the strongest associations“ - 2012 SLA Hall of Fame inductee Susan Fifer Canby Chicago in July is hot, even with the lake breeze you can’t escape the concrete...
View ArticleFirstRain is Proud To Be a Sponsor of Dreamforce 2012!
If you’ve been following our @FirstRain Twitter feed, you’ve heard how excited we are to be sponsors of Dreamforce 2012! Dreamforce is Salesforce.com’s annual cloud computing conference held at San...
View ArticleWhat to Expect, When You Don’t Know What to Expect at Dreamforce 2012
This is my first year attending Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference and I am very excited. As a first timer, I wanted to make sure I was prepared, so I turned to Twitter and Dreamforce Chatter to find...
View ArticleGirly Geeks in Force at Dreamforce
I can’t think of a better way to start a major conference then attending a conference sponsored networking event. From day one you are able to network and make connections with others, who can heavily...
View ArticleS**T Dreamforcers Say!
FirstRain decided to have some fun as we get ready for Dreamforce next week. A real team collaboration!
View Article360 Degrees of Excellence: How GE Capital Drives ROI Through Customer...
If you didn’t get to hear the Dreamforce session where GE Capital’s Sales Excellence leader, Steve Kozek, discussed their challenges in increasing the customer expertise of their sales reps and driving...
View ArticleAnd the winner is …
And the winner of the FirstRain ‘be the carrot’ iPad contest is … Talitha Baker from Invisible Children! She came in first with over 600 Facebook Likes and 75 retweets (in fact, that was her winning...
View ArticleYY is a Keynote Speaker at the 2012 Semantic Technology and Business Conference
On October 17th, 2012, our amazing COO, YY Lee will speak at the Semantic Technology and Business Conference. Her session, “Expanding Your Horizons: Using Cross-Domain Semantics to Deliver Higher...
View ArticleCustomer Annual Sales Kick-off: A Perfect Time to Hear How FirstRain is...
Last week I had the pleasure to head down to Boca Raton, Florida for my first cross-country business trip. Since I earned my demo stripes at this year’s FirstRain Dreamforce booth, I am now part of our...
View ArticleGrace Hopper Conference 2012
“There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we erect ourselves.” -Ronald Reagan This year the Grace Hopper Conference focused...
View ArticleWe’re going to Dreamforce 2013!
It’s on: We’re going to Dreamforce again! And this time, we’ve moved on up to Silver Sponsor status. Our booth last year was packed and buzzing with great conservations, with both attendees and...
View ArticleFirstRain’s on the Road to Dreamforce
FirstRain is revving up for Dreamforce 2013, and to make sure we’ve got all the latest information, we’ve been watching The Road to Dreamforce on Salesforce Live. It’s been really informative and has...
View ArticleSo you need to take your client out to drinks…
You’re going to Dreamforce. You’re stoked. It’s only 73 days away. You’re setting up client meetings … but then you realize that you’re coming from out of town, have only been to San Francisco once—and...
View ArticleHow Can Salesforce Help You At Dreamforce 13?
Dreamforce brings together salesforce.com users and partner companies from around the world. You’ll meet a ton of great people, be exposed to solutions you never knew existed, and hopefully be able to...
View ArticleLooking Back at Gnip’s Big Boulder Initiative
Ashutosh Joshi is FirstRain’s Principal Data Analytics Engineer. He attended The Big Boulder Initiative last month and learned some interesting things. Read on: Last month the Big Boulder Initiative,...
View ArticlePenny Herscher to Speak at Ark Group Women Legal Forum 2014
We’re excited to announce that Penny has been invited to speak at the Ark Group Women Legal Forum on Wednesday, Feb. 5. The Women Legal Forum is advancing the increasingly important dialogue on gender...
View ArticleExciting Discussion About Women Helping Women at the Ark Women Legal Forum
Yesterday, FirstRain CEO Penny Herscher was part of a panel discussion at the Ark Women Legal Forum in San Francisco. Speaking to a room of about 100 women, she and her co-panelists, Patricia Gillette,...
View ArticlePersonal Business Analytics to be at Gigaom Structure Data
FirstRain is excited to announce that we are participating in this year’s Gigaom Structure Data Conference! The conference will be March 19-20 at Chelsea Piers in New York. 900+ big data practitioners,...
View ArticleGigaom Structure Data: It’s a FirstRain Wrap
It’s been a week since Gigaom Structure Data wrapped up, and I’m still processing a lot of what we learned, the great conversations that we had and following up with people we connected with. It was a...
View ArticleLessons from the Women of the Channel West 14 Power Panel
Yesterday, CEO Penny Herscher took the stage on the Women of the Channel West’s Power Panel with other female leaders in the tech industry: VMWare’s Laurie Evans, Symantec’s Jana Valenti and Google’s...
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