It’s the last Thursday of April, and you know what that means. This week on the Salesforce Admins Podcast, Mike and Gillian are back for another installment of our monthly overview of Salesforce content: the We Still Don’t Know What to Call This Episode. Really, though, we need some help coming up with a name, so please reach out on Twitter and help us brainstorm.

Join us as we talk about all the great Salesforce content from this month, as well as Mike’s breakdown of the ins and outs of casseroles.

You should subscribe for the full episode, but here are a few takeaways from our conversation between Mike and Gillian.

Reports and Dashboards

“Here’s the thing about reports and dashboards for admins,” Gillian says, “it’s one of the coolest things you can show leadership.” So many conversations we have with admins include some version of how they struggled to get executive buy-in until they showed them a sexy dashboard that responded in real-time.

• Video: Admin Best Practices: Reports & Dashboards
• Blog: Advanced Reporting Features for New Admins

3 Is the Magic Number

For the Schoolhouse Rock fans out there, “3 Is a Magic Number,” and this month we too were obsessed with the number 3. From Marc’s great blog post, “3 Questions Admins Can Ask to Optimize Salesforce,” to our episode with Hayley Tuller, a former Navy combat pilot who became a Salesforce admin, we had tons of content in April that just happened to come in threes.

• Blog: 3 Questions Admins Can Ask to Optimize Salesforce
• Podcast: 3 Things the Navy Taught Me to be a Successful Salesforce Admin
• Podcast: 3 Things I Learned from Retail that Made Me a Successful Salesforce Admin with Ciara Skiles

Building Cool Things Fast

A lot of unexpected things have happened over the past few months, and Salesforce admins have been there to build things quickly and help their organizations respond. We have some amazing stories of people who have made a difference, and the lessons they learned along the way.

• Podcast: From Idea to App in 5 Hours with Jeff Berger
• Podcast: 3 Tips to Help Admins Build and Deploy Apps Fast with Justin Kuryliw

Trailhead Live

As we’re looking for new ways to connect with each other without being able to walk around the office, Trailhead Live has been a great tool to come together and learn. Gillian did two Trailhead Live sessions this month, one focused on Chatter and another AMA (Ask Me Anything) that brought together product experts to answer your burning questions. We’re going to another AMA next month, so come check it out.

• • Build Organizational Trust with Chatter
  • #AwesomeAdmin AMA

The Wayback Machine

We also take a moment to check in on what we were up to two years ago. This month in 2018, we talked to an Australian powerlifter who earned a golden hoodie, Zayne Turner was ahead of the curve with “SalesforceDX for Admins,” and we launched our “Be a Builder” series to help admins build apps quickly.

• Podcast: How Rebecca Aichholzer Powerlifted Her Salesforce Career
• Podcast: SalesforceDX for Admins
• Launch of Be a Builder

Other Content from April

• Blog: “Admin Release Countdown: Get Ready for Summer ’20”
• Podcast: Salesforce For Good: Judi Sohn

Social

• Salesforce Admins: @SalesforceAdmns 
• Mike: @MikeGerholdt
• Gillian: @GillianKBruce

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