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May 5, 2022May 5, 2022 Samantha Shain Salesforce, Uncategorized

asking pragmatic questions about snowfakery

Grappling with my learning journey on Snowfakery. Striving to make the installation process easier is a noble effort, but not to the exclusion of learning fundamental concepts.

April 17, 2022April 17, 2022 Samantha Shain Salesforce

exploring salesforce PMM for foundations

I lay out a data model for how foundations can measure their impact on nonprofit capacity building by using PMM in addition to their chosen grantmaking datamodel.

April 11, 2022April 11, 2022 Samantha Shain Ethical Tech, Salesforce, Spreadsheets, Uncategorized

NEW VIDEOS | practicing cognitive flexibility with my bestie

A retrospective on the Emily and Samantha collab + Emily and Samantha tackle cognitive flexibility!

April 5, 2022April 5, 2022 Samantha Shain Salesforce, Uncategorized

nice to meet you, apsona 💃

Read on in this blog post to see key lessons I've learned in my first month of using Apsona, as illustrated by GIFs from Schitt's Creek.

April 2, 2022 Samantha Shain Salesforce, Spreadsheets, Uncategorized

I was wrong: tech mistakes, accountability, and trust

Report back from my session at #22NTC and what to do when we - inevitably - make mistakes on the way to good technology.

March 1, 2022March 1, 2022 Samantha Shain Salesforce

case study: how to move a Process Builder to Flow [Salesforce]

During the month of February, I worked with a consultant to move just ONE process builder over to Flow, and it was an ADVENTURE! In this blog post, I will write about some of the challenges, avoided (!) pitfalls, learnings, and maybe even some advice as we, collectively, face this huge change in the Salesforce admin toolbox.

January 17, 2022January 17, 2022 Samantha Shain Salesforce, Spreadsheets, Uncategorized

How to make Validation Rules into *Validating* Rules

The database world is replete with options for "validating" data, but there is a huge missing link in our field, which for me boils down to VALIDATING HUMANS.

December 16, 2021December 16, 2021 Samantha Shain Uncategorized

december milestones

Reflection on 7 areas of growth observed over the past year! Conga Composer Global Merge, Salesforce Flow, and even a new computer. Plus, bitmojis!

November 3, 2021January 20, 2022 Samantha Shain Salesforce, Spreadsheets, Uncategorized

how to populate multi-select picklists in Google Sheets and Salesforce

Do you need to edit multi-select picklist values in a Google Sheet and then import them into Salesforce? I have a script to help you transcend the limitations of data validation!

October 21, 2021 Samantha Shain Salesforce, Uncategorized

sprint reflections vol ix: laughter

"At the end of the day, PRs are meaningless to me if we haven't been laughing."

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