Our crowd knows how to party at Dreamforce

Posted by Appirio On 8-17-2011

With the numerous after-expo events growing so fast, we decided to create a mobile app to help you manage your busy social schedule.

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Announcing Casino Royale - Appirio's Dreamforce 2011 Afterparty!

Posted by Appirio On 8-10-2011

Announcing Appirio's Casino Royale at the SFMOMA, this year's must attend party at Dreamforce 2011! Think sleek, sexy, BOND-- with the sophistication of SFMOMA and the excitement of 007. We expect it to be one of our best parties yet!

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Talkin’ Bout a Revolution - Pop Art, Appirio and Dreamforce 2011

Posted by Appirio On 8-3-2011

Each year we choose a theme to organize our presence at Dreamforce. This year we looked at what was happening in the world around us for inspiration...

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Announcing Our #dftee Contest Winner!

Posted by Appirio On 8-2-2011

The time has come to once again announce the winner of our annual Dreamforce T-Shirt Slogan Contest!

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Dreamforce 2011 - Appirio T-Shirt Contest Winners!

Posted by Kirk Crenshaw On 9/08/2011 03:36:00 PM 0 comments

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Dreamforce Recap

Posted by Kelly Walsh On 9/07/2011 10:37:00 AM 0 comments
Here's my video blog recap of Dreamforce #11. A couple of things stand out:

1) I am not a videographer
2) I am not a sound technician
3) I am not a video editor.

But, what I am is a really enthusiastic Dreamforce participant, cloud kool-aid drinker, and Appirio lover. Throughout Dreamforce, I interviewed people -- primarily at the booth (which explains the background noise). Simple stuff: fun word association, thoughts about Dreamforce, or the cloud, or Appirio.

And this is what happened.

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Dreamforce - Day 2 Updates

Posted by Appirio On 9/01/2011 10:21:00 AM 0 comments

Two ways to win $1,000 for wearing our t-shirt this year!

Posted by Kirk Crenshaw On 8/30/2011 09:50:00 AM 0 comments
Appirio has been known to give out a t-shirt or two over the last few years (thousands to be exact). In 2009, we started the tradition of giving our Dreamforce t-shirts with slogans like “Friends don’t let friends buy servers.” In 2010, we upped the ante by giving away the slogan t-shirts and encouraging people to wear them with $1000 cash that was given away randomly to a few people. It caused quite the stir! So in 2011, we’re upping the ante by giving away $5000 to 5 lucky people wearing our t-shirts. What?? $5,000 you say?! How do I win?

Here’s how you can win.

Step one is to pick up your t-shirt. They’re free, we promise. Go to Appirio booth #420 and ask for your t-shirt slip. Bring that slip, or your bag insert, to room #P9 (downstairs from registration) to get a t-shirt with one of these four slogans:
  • To cloud or not to cloud...there is no question
  • Cloud: Nothing else matters (in honor of Metallica)
  • Cloud can’t fix stupid (but it sure helps)
  • Does this shirt make my cloud look big
These were all crowdsourced from our internal community and Twitter followers.

Step two is to wear your shirt on Thursday. You can wear it every day if you want, but Thursday is when we’ll be giving out prizes.

You can win one of two ways:
  • By getting lucky. Similar to years past we’ll be giving away $1000 to three lucky people randomly throughout the day. Be sure to follow us on Twitter, our Facebook page or on our Dreamforce Chatter group for tips on where we’ll be giving out the cash.
  • By getting social. In honor of Dreamforce’s social enterprise theme, we’ve created another way to win the money. Simply find or gather as large of a group as possible of people wearing Appirio t-shirts, take a photo and post it to our Chatter page. We’ll be selecting the two individuals who post the picture with the most people and awarding them $1000 each. Feel free to get creative. If there’s a tie, the winner will be chosen based on creativity.
Good luck!

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Cool parties - check.  Great mobile apps - check.  100 cloud experts ready to get crazy social at all hours of the day and night - check.

We are spending time getting ready for more cool announcements, inspiring customer stories, and much much more at Dreamforce.  So if you talk to any appirio person at the event, you know they will be ready !

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Goal of Dreamforce 2011 - Have Fun !

Posted by Narinder On 8/26/2011 01:04:00 AM 0 comments
We focus so much on all the work to do to prepare for Dreamforce, or how you are possible going to make the most out of the trip and learn everything about thousands of content,  that the essence can be lost.  This year is about the social enterprise.  Its about being social, mobile, and open.  


Given that, let me humbly offer you should make sure you have fun.  Let Dreamforce roll over and embrace you.  Go to a session, meet new people who are in different roles or industries.   Talk about parties during a session, and Apex code during a party at night.  Most of all, don't attend Dreamforce, experience it.  Use the apps, play with demos, challenge yourself to configure/code, and remember the technology is only fantastic if it helps you do something you are passionate about.

And if you are passionate about the technology, well then remember to be thankful for the time you live in, the freedom and creativity the cloud has enabled, and the fact that for a few days you will be at the very epicenter of cloud Innovation.  Dreamforce 2011 - the freedom to dream !

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An oldie but a goodie...

Posted by Kirk Crenshaw On 8/24/2011 05:55:00 PM 0 comments
Still one of my favorite videos submitted to our cloud computing video contest for DF09:


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