The value of cultivating a strong team of talented, passionate people in your business, as opposed to, say, a revolving door of clock-watchers, has been steadily growing in corporate culture over the past decade. As managers, we must strive to motivate and engage team members in order to maximize both their contribution to the enterprise, [...]

Revenue. Balance sheets. Profit & Loss Statements. ROI. No matter the company, these core business concepts are at the heart of any decision to adopt new technologies or processes aimed towards improving productivity, efficiency or a number of other performance measures. Companies want to know how technologies will affect their bottom line, and each business [...]

Each year for the past nine years I’ve travelled to Sydney for the annual webDU (Web Down Under) Conference. For each of the last eight, I’ve been privileged enough to be a speaker at what has become the premier annual Australian web technologies conferences. To give you some context regarding who participates in webDU, other organisations [...]

Cloud Sherpas recently launched “Google Enterprise: Spring Semester,” a 12-week-long Webinar series for anyone interested in diving a little deeper into what it means to ‘Go Google.’ With a focus on data security, mobility, Platform as a Service (PaaS) and migration and deployment services, each 45-minute Webinar is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of [...]

We’ve come a long way since the days when mad scientists sequestered themselves in tiny laboratories, surrounded by stacks of scribbled notes, agonizing over some new industrial innovation — wrought on by the dream of one day becoming the first mad scientist to arrive at just one original idea. Remember those days? Sure you do! Though surely [...]

The following is the third in a series of articles that seeks to offer an inside perspective, from our own team members — the Cloud Sherpas, if you will — on our recent merger with GlobalOne. One of the greatest rewards I’ve discovered in being a part of the Cloud Sherpas global family lies, perhaps [...]

The following is the second in a series of articles that seeks to offer an inside perspective, from our own team members — the Cloud Sherpas, if you will — on our recent merger with GlobalOne. Immediately following the announcement of Cloud Sherpas’ merger with GlobalOne on March 6, Event Coordinator and Social Media Marketing [...]

The following is the first in a series of articles that seek to offer an inside perspective from our own team members — the Cloud Sherpas, if you will — on our recent merger with GlobalOne. Immediately following the announcement of Cloud Sherpas’ merger with GlobalOne on March 6, Event Coordinator and Social Media Marketing [...]

Our friends over at Radian6, the SalesForce.com-owned social data tracking service, recently published the Social Media Monitoring and Engagement Playbook, which you can download for free right after the jump. Finally starting to think your business can no longer afford to sit out the social media movement? Before you rush out and open your first [...]

ATLANTA — From March 14-16, Cloud Sherpas held the first of four Google Apps Script training seminars scheduled for 2012, playing host to IT professionals from Brenau University, Conning and IDG at a new training facility in our Atlanta headquarters. Developers who attended the 3-day workshop were led by Cloud Sherpas senior technology consultant Shel Davis [...]

The goal of any privacy policy is to help the user understand how their personal information is used and protected by the person or organization with which it is shared. For decades, privacy polices for companies across all industries have been written by long-winded attorneys with a penchant for obtuse legalese that’s often so confusing [...]

For companies who are deploying salesforce.com, whether sales, service or force.com, domestic or global, Chatter is an often overlooked resource.   It’s the perfect tool for just such an occasion.  Why exactly?  Here are just a few reasons: It’s directly integrated with the application so users don’t have to switch to another application to log [...]