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Both keynotes will have live audiocasts.<br \/> <br \/> The 2011 National Middle Market Summit will be held on the campus of Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Sponsored by GE Capital and the Fisher School of Business at Ohio State University, the National Middle Market Summit brings together decision makers from across the country for a day-long dialogue on opportunities, challenges and growth drivers of businesses in the middle market. <br \/> <br \/> Dell World 2011 will be held at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas. The conference will bring together subject-matter experts, industry visionaries and technology professionals to discuss measuring IT efficiency, exploring the cloud and unlocking innovation in industry verticals such as healthcare, education and manufacturing. <br \/> <br \/> Welcome to the Social Enterprise<br \/> Attendees of Benioff\u2019s keynotes will learn about the social revolution that is taking place. The number of social networking users has surpassed e-mail users. Nearly a quarter of all time spent online is spent on social networks like Facebook. And people access the Internet more from mobile devices than from desktops. Salesforce.com is helping companies meet the challenge of this social revolution with the social enterprise. Today, companies must change the way they collaborate, communicate and share information with customers and employees to stay competitive. By leveraging salesforce.com\u2019s social, mobile and open cloud technologies, companies can transform themselves into social enterprises by developing social profiles of customers, creating employee social networks and building customer and product social networks. <br \/> <br \/> Additional Resources<br \/> \u2022 Register for 2011 National Middle Market Summit to get live streaming of Benioff\u2019s keynote at http:\/\/www.nationalmiddlemarketsummit.com\/register\/.<br \/> \u2022 Register for Dell World: Live Online to get live streaming of Benioff\u2019s keynote at http:\/\/dellworld.social27.com\/.<br \/> \u2022 Follow @salesforce on Twitter.<br \/> \u2022 Become a fan of salesforce.com on Facebook: http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/salesforce.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2011 National Middle Market Summit will be held Oct. 6, Dell World 2011 will be held Oct. 13 Benioff\u2019s keynotes will showcase how companies can tr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"sf_subhead":"The 2011 National Middle Market Summit will be held Oct. 6, Dell World 2011 will be held Oct. 13 Benioff\u2019s keynotes will showcase how companies can tr","sf_i18n_disclaimer":false,"alternateThumbnailId":0,"sf_product_cta_id":0,"footnotes":""},"sf_content_type":[1755,1776],"sf_theme":[1912],"sf_topic":[1726,1763],"sf_product":[],"sf_industry":[],"sf_role":[],"sf_multimedia_asset":[],"sf_location":[1724],"sf_collection":[],"sf_visibility":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-21023","sf_press_release","type-sf_press_release","status-publish","hentry","sf_content_type-press-releases","sf_content_type-press-releases-corporate","sf_theme-digital-transformation","sf_topic-digital-transformation","sf_topic-innovation","sf_location-amer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - 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