Category: Appirio
1st Annual Future of the Cloud Day
April 15th, 2011, No Comments
Last Friday at Appirio we held our 1st Annual Future of the Cloud Day where we pull all 200+ employees out of the field for the day to give back to our communities across the country and globe. If you are interested in some of the projects and charities we contributed to, please check out [...]
CloudSpokes Hits 2000 Members in 6 Weeks!
March 30th, 2011, 2 Comments
Yesterday was a big day in the history of CloudSpokes as we hit 2000 members! We officially launched the site six weeks ago on Valentine’s Day and honestly didn’t know what type of reception we’d receive. At a pre-launch meeting we tried to set a goal for the number of members before the end of [...]
I’m Starting a New Job!!
March 18th, 2011, 22 Comments
No… I’m not leaving Appirio … but I will have a new role starting next week! One of the great things about Appirio is that, like the cloud computing industry in general, the only constant is change and new opportunities are always being incubated within our company. Since I started with Appirio I’ve been on the [...]
Appirio Company Meeting — In Napa!
January 21st, 2011, 4 Comments
I’m going to be out of pocket for the next couple of days as I head off to the Appirio Company Meeting (Sun-Wed). Everyone is flying out to Napa for roughly 4 days at The Meritage Resort to discuss the upcoming year, get to know all of the new hires (50+ this year??) and to [...]
Will Work for Tacos!
December 20th, 2010, 1 Comment
During Cloudstock we had a tack truck outside the event to not only give away free food but to attract potential candidates for our 20+ open positions. The taco truck even made the evening news on three local news channels! If you are interested… we are hiring so check out our open positions.
My VMforce and Facebook Demos Today at Dreamforce
December 8th, 2010, 2 Comments
If you are at Dreamforce today here are the sessions that I am speaking in. I’m really excited to be part of both of them as the topics (VMforce and the new Facebook toolkit) are really cool. Leveraging Public Social Networks – West 2005 @ 12:15 We’ll be showing off the new Facebook toolkit and [...]
Appirio Announces Workday Patnership
September 14th, 2010, No Comments
Since we started Appirio in 2006 we’ve centered our efforts around salesforce.com, Google Apps and Amazon Web Services, and are now thrilled to add Workday to our select list of partners. We just announced over at the Appirio CIO Blog that we’ve officially partnered with Workday and have formed a dedicated Workday practice. You can [...]
Appirio Marketing has too much Free Time
August 3rd, 2010, 4 Comments
At Appirio we routinely hold customer-exclusive webinars to talk about features, trends and the latest technologies in cloud computing. This week I’m hosting a webinar to some of our existing Salesforce.com customers on the new features released in Summer ’10. This is how the marketing team “effectively” markets the event. BTW since someone asked… jeffdonthemic [...]
Install My Salesforce Chatter for Android App on Your Phone
June 24th, 2010, 3 Comments
Salesforce.com invited me to attend Cloudforce last Tuesday to demo my Salesforce Chatter for Android app. The reception was incredible and there is a big push to get a Salesforce.com app running on Android. Parker Harris (Co-founder & EVP, Technology) even made the statement in the keynote that, “I do have a team working on [...]
Appirio $1 Million Dollar Cloudsourcing Guarantee
April 23rd, 2010, No Comments
In case you missed this yesterday, Appirio announced, “Appirio will run your IT in the cloud, and save you at least a million dollars”! Yes, that is the proverbial, “put your money where your mouth is”. So what is “cloudsourcing”? Cloudsourcing means sourcing complete solutions to run your business on the cloud, through a combination [...]
