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The Pros and Cons of Working from Home

The Pros and Cons of Working from Home

As we settle into working from home being a new way of doing things, perhaps for the longer term, we need to ensure that we support our mental health. There are many positives to working from home. A shorter commute reduces our workday, by hours in some cases. Being home allows us to schedule things that we don’t have to manage, but need to be present for: the cable guy, the landscapers, etc. Some of us can get that load of laundry through the washer and dryer during the day;

Salesforce Security

Salesforce Security

Keeping your Salesforce data safe should be top priority. So, let’s talk about security features for a moment. Salesforce has a numerous way to protect your data. I will discuss three briefly in this article. Password Policies If you haven’t taken a look at your Password Policies in a while, now is a good time to do so. It is easy to say the password never expires or only expires once a year but is that really the best security for you company. If you are not aware of the

Working from home now? Maintain some of your existing structure.

Working from home now? Maintain some of your existing structure.

Working from home is the new normal for many of us, and we may be doing it for quite some time. Even if you've set up a dedicated workspace in your home (and you should, for your own mental health; see Jeremy's article on The Pros and Cons of Working from Home), it won't be the same as working from your normal location. In your office or usual workspace, you have likely created routines and processes that may not easily translate to your home workspace. I encourage you to t

Salesforce Summer ’20 release highlights

Salesforce Summer ’20 release highlights

Salesforce Summer ’20 release will be upgrading your Salesforce orgs the first two weeks in June. I have highlighted my top five features that I think will help your productive. List Views: Salesforce is making life easier with time saving features in List Views. Split View The Split view option is now available as a List View display option throughout Salesforce. It allows you to see your list of records and the details of a selected record on the same page. This feature ha

What’s New in GoldMine 2018.2 and 2019.1

What’s New in GoldMine 2018.2 and 2019.1

What’s New in GoldMine 2018.2 GoldMine Connect Uses https by default For new installations GoldMine Connect will be installed to use port 443 by default The https implementation needs a certificate installed on the web server If you don’t have a certificate from an external trusted authority, then you need to create a self-signed certificate For existing installations there will be a redirect from http to https Please note that in the case of existing installations, we use UR

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