Email Forever

Only a handful of things are forever:  Death, diamonds, and email.  Email?  Yes, email.

I'm the first to admit that I begged, whined, wheedled, and generally made a nuisance of myself looking for a Google Wave invitation until some kind soul on a CRM group to which I post, gave me one of the coveted beta keys.  With the sort of breathless anticipation only matched by prom night, I set up my account, whipped through a tutorial, and then...

...nothing.  No one I knew had Wave.  It was like owning the first telephone in the state of New Jersey. 

Eventually I found a coworker who had Wave and we collaborated on a couple of awkward, tedious, project meetings.  While I'm sure it will get easier as we get more used to it, I was deeply underwhelmed.  The future of email or email's replacement?  I don't think so.  I suspect in 20 years, when I'm tottering off to the retirement home, some poor sap in operations will be struggling to deal with overwhelming flow of email spam and noise, just like I do, every single day.

Salesforce.com Dreamforce 2009

A couple of days ago, I arrived back home from my third Dreamforce.  As usual, I was excited, exhausted, energized, overwhelmed, and not a little giddy.  Giddy?  Yes, with both the potential for the Force.com platform, which I have seen emerge from virtual vaporware to a "ready for prime time" player, and with the notion of starting my own blog. 

Granted, this will be blog # 54,123,977 on the net, but I hope to bring you, my readers, both value and entertainment.  Stay tuned for observations, tips and tricks, and conversation about CRM, Salesforce, Force.com, sales operations, and just about anything technical or geeky. 

Thanks for joining me on a wild ride!

Paul