Dreamforce, Adobe MAX, and BIS in Long Beach

I have been out of town 4 days each of the last 3 weeks attending one show and 2 conferences.

First was Dreamforce. Salesforce.com's annual big event. This was fantastic. I am amazed at what salesforce.com has been able to do with their platform. We have been using salesforce.com since April and I can't imagine being without it. They really have a fantastic vision and have been able to grow their business and keep most of their customers happy.

One of the Big announcements was salesforce sites. Public facing web pages that your customers can access without loggin in. Before, any access to salesforce was via controlled login access. Now you will be able to design pages for the public based on your salesforce data. This does have tremendous possibilities, especially if I was to ever move my data entry app into salesforce. We will see. But all the other stuff was cool. I learned alot and they treated us like royalty. Tons of food all the time. Free shirts, books and more. I have never before been treated so good as we were treated at Dreamforce. They seem to really care about their customers.

The second week I was at BIS in Long Beach. This is a builders show where we buy a booth and market our magazine. We also walk around and speak with other booths. This show is a good place for us to get our name out and we had pretty good success with it last year.

The 3rd week (last week) was the Adobe MAX user conference. I went to this one when it was in Salt Lake about 4 or 5 years ago. This conference was great also. They had decent food, although not as good as dreamforce and the content was above average. I learned alot and got to shake hands with and meet some of the top coldfusion guys. I am sure there a great minds in everywhere, but I feel we have some great ones in the coldfusion community.

Both these conferences where held at the Mascone Center in San Francisco. This made it easy for me because I was a little familiar with the area since I went there in late Sept for a salesforce.com administrator test.