To kick off January, with an entire new year stretching before us, we're working on some demos that show how some are stretching their use of the force.com platform. We hope to give you some great ideas to get started with your Dev Year Resolutions!

See how Acumen Solutions mocked up a working proof of concept that connects Salesforce to a machine - they included a mobile piece as well (it's pretty cool; you may have seen it at Dreamforce).

Walk through a customer portal customization that has been heavily customized with VF and APEX.

We are currently looking for one more demo from our great PDX community - please contact Larry or Angela if are interested in spending 15 or 20 minutes helping strengthen our collective skillset by demoing something new to the rest of us. We are all doing really interesting things out there!

This month we will be hosted by a great new Portland company using Salesforce: Smarsh! 

Smarsh ® delivers cloud-based solutions for archiving an expanding list of today's digital communication mediums – including email, instant messaging, public and enterprise social media, mobile messaging, and the Web. Founded in 2001, Smarsh is the trusted archiving and compliance provider for a growing base of over 20,000 companies that rely on it to help meet regulatory compliance, e-discovery and record retention requirements. The company is headquartered in Portland, Ore. with offices in New York City, Atlanta, Boston and Los Angeles. For more information, visit www.smarsh.com, follow@SmarshInc on Twitter or like Smarsh on Facebook atwww.facebook.com/SmarshInc