User Group Community Feedback...Keep it Coming!
Thank you to all the Windows Server User Group members who have completed the community survey! Hearing from you is critical to ensure we continue building out the most efficient and effective UG experience we can. We're interested in all aspects of feedback -- new ideas, what's working today, what isn't, what's impacting your UG satisfaction the most (both good and bad). As of 1/26 we had 326 responses...and we're anxious to hear from the rest of you! (Here's a link to the survey.)
In Chandana's blog she provided some preliminary numbers from early January. I've been working closely with Chandana to review the data and have uncovered some common themes in the responses to "Is there anything else that would make your overall experience with the User Group Community better?" Here they are:
- More involvement from the local Microsoft office
- More speakers and presenters from Microsoft
- More NFR software
- Evidence that feedack from user groups is getting to the product groups
- Information on new releases earlier
- Communication/collaboration between groups, either online or via web conference
Although responses vary depending on geographic location, e.g. in some areas Microsoft involvement is very strong where in many other areas it appears to be absent, these have been pretty common themes. Getting a broad response to this survey will help us prioritize our response to these and other items, so please keep it coming! We love hearing from you!
Sidenote...it will be great to get this baseline data ASAP so we can use it as we plan discussions for the upcoming MVP Summit where we'll see a lot of you in person. Looking forward to it!
