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#general - January 08, 2025 at 11:37 PM
@Nicole Saunders Here's if that helps
#general - January 08, 2025 at 06:49 PM
typeform as a whole is like $76 a month. But that covers our entire corporate account as the application isn't the only thing we run off of the platform.
#general - January 08, 2025 at 06:43 PM
happy to chat @Nicole Saunders. I have an (you can see it's from 2021) that I should really update as it no longer reflects the makeup of the team. But at least it gives you a sense of a type of plan. But I'm actually going through some re-planning at the moment, so that would be awesome timing for me as well.
#general - January 08, 2025 at 06:36 PM
We run ours through Typeform. @Madeline Coke our is currently live right now, so if you want to see how it works, it's right here:
#general - January 06, 2025 at 09:45 PM
Building off of the video testimonials, you can also just do in person interviews with customers for written content. Those are less heavy of a lift than all of that equipment.
Also, and I know @Ciana Abdollahian has done this at various RSA-type events where they have a customer lounge for their customers that are in attendance as a place for them to relax and work away from the show floor. Also, if y'all have executives in town at the same time, you can bring there as opposed to the booth as it's a lot easier to have conversations in the lounge than at a busy booth.
#open-share - January 02, 2025 at 08:02 PM
We had another one of these during our midyear planning/kick off this past August @Shannon Howard where we threw in another little carrot for our customers who joined us...
Aa private little (CAB-esque) feedback and planning session with our SE and Product leadership who happened to be in town as well for the event. Plus we had a VIP dinner that night for them.
#open-share - December 12, 2024 at 12:42 AM
It's everyone's favorite season...No not the winter/holidays...
I'm talking about season. I know many of you work at companies that use Grafana in some way shape or form. So if you happen to see a dashboard at your offices or know of someone who is doing cool shit with our open source software, I would greatly appreciate if you could encourage them to apply as they could be one application away from a free trip to Seattle, an actual Golden Grot statue, and a chance to meet and spend time with me and my team (the last part is probably not as fun as the other two)
Oh and if nothing else, a like or comment on post would be much appreciated. Thanks, y'all!
#discussions - December 10, 2024 at 06:34 PM
What @Alexie Glover and @Shannon Howard have shared here is absolutely perfect.
One thing I would double click on, though, is the last point @Shannon Howard made as it's hard to codify. But I would describe it as Pride. Do your customers/winners view it as somethign worth sharing with the world and how do they end up doing it. With both the Grots and the awards at my previous role, we had winners put it up on their website or in their collateral without us even saying 'hey, can you do that for us'.
But in general, it's hard to put a number or a metric on pride.
#random - December 05, 2024 at 09:55 PM
Things you love to hear from a potential advocate "Oh we don't have comms or legal, so you don't have worry about them"
#general - December 03, 2024 at 08:26 PM
True @Val Geisler. But I did get to experience it with Jacob for the first time so I’ll take that (and the national championship last year)
#general - December 03, 2024 at 04:52 PM
And i'll second @Shannon Howard's congrats as well!
#general - December 03, 2024 at 04:48 PM
welcome back @Val Geisler! Great to see you here. (oh and Go Blue! 😉)
#discussions - November 26, 2024 at 06:03 PM
@Kathleen Connelly...to echo what @Joel Primack said, I would also see if you can track how much $$ was spent before and after acts of advocacy. We do this with content and let me tell you when i show that report to our GTM team, they instantly see a way for them to get paid more if they help us get connected and get a piece of content published.
#general - November 22, 2024 at 06:56 PM
oof - well that's not what you want. @Rebecca Grossman. Thanks for catching that issue. I've pushed a quick fix.
#general - November 22, 2024 at 05:57 PM
@Rebecca Grossman we do this:
(the big one)
(our roving tour)
#general - November 07, 2024 at 04:06 PM
@Maria Braune this is from my former company:
#jobs - November 06, 2024 at 10:10 PM
@Perri Chaikof I might have a lead on this one as a friend of mine is looking. But as a quick clarification, is the remote part only remote in Canada? Or does remote also mean from the States as well?
#open-share - October 31, 2024 at 10:12 PM
omg @Ciana Abdollahian I die...cause = cuteness overload
#open-share - October 31, 2024 at 10:09 PM
He’s conserving his energy for now @Lisa Wilberding. Going to go hard in a few hours.
#open-share - October 31, 2024 at 04:15 PM
Jacob will later today. For now, though, he's just dressed as the cutest baby ever 😉
#open-share - October 31, 2024 at 03:49 PM
Happy Halloween from everyone's favorite dinobot...
#discussions - October 22, 2024 at 08:52 PM
well you see @Alexie Glover this is why i said you have some good knowledge. Knowing what not to use is just as valuable as knowing what to use.
#discussions - October 22, 2024 at 08:46 PM
@Kevin Lau @Alexie Glover @Ashley Ward I know y'all have some good knowledge in this space
#discussions - October 22, 2024 at 08:46 PM
What platforms are people using to run the application process for their awards programs? For reference, we use typeform and that has worked well enough over the first two years of the Golden Grots. But in the name of evolution, I wanted to see what else was out there before we launch year 3.
#general - October 18, 2024 at 04:39 PM
I'll have to catch the recording as well @Mary Green (Owner CMAweekly).
#general - October 09, 2024 at 04:18 PM
I’ll be enjoying the tummy time track back at home though
#general - October 09, 2024 at 03:51 PM
Ahhhh so jealous. I’ll miss seeing you both
#open-share - July 31, 2024 at 06:30 PM
Thanks so much, y’all. Jacob, Jenny, Little Man (our cat) and I are all so thankful for the well wishes.
#open-share - July 29, 2024 at 04:54 PM
Would you look at that?!? Meet Jacob Benjamin Palay. Born Friday, July 26 at 2:11 am after putting his poor (but badass) mother through 23 hours of labor. He was 7 pounds 10 ounces and measured 19 inches. We are now home and learning how to do this life together. Plus Jacob has his own baby Grot already.
#general - July 18, 2024 at 05:17 PM
@Rebecca Grossman I think a hybrid of what I did and what @Lauren Stefano talked about might be a great idea. That way you can cover the big expenses of airfare and hotel with the booking system and then let them use the budget and vendor restricted card for the transport
#general - July 12, 2024 at 11:28 PM
So we use Navan and can generate a link for them to book their travel using the system as a guest user. So then allows us to pay for it on our corporate card, but allows them to make all of their choices
#general - July 12, 2024 at 11:15 PM
Do y’all have a booking platform? Like Navan that y’all use internally? @Rebecca Grossman
#general - June 26, 2024 at 04:05 PM
@here So i'm leading on a session this friday on our weekly call about one of my favorite (and i suppose controversial given my take on the situation) topics...How we show/define value of our CMA programs
In anticipation of that, I have a quick ask (well two asks since it's two questions) so we can set the stage properly.
• What is the top line value metric that you have to (or feel like you have to) report on to show your value?
• What is the top line value metric that you wish you could use to show your value instead?
If you could spare a few quick seconds over the next two days to answer here in a 🧵 that would be much appreciated. Thanks!
#general - June 25, 2024 at 03:41 PM
Thanks so much @Mary Green (Owner CMAweekly), @Lauren Locke-Paddon @Shannon Howard @Joel Primack @Valeria Gomez @Kevin Lau. ❤️
#general - June 24, 2024 at 05:24 PM
Also, I suppose this will also serve as my apology if I disappear from this wonderful community for a good long while.
#general - June 24, 2024 at 05:23 PM
@Mary Green (Owner CMAweekly) Not getting ready for a 4th of july party over here, more like getting ready for fireworks at the end of July...
#discussions - June 19, 2024 at 06:18 PM
Our team is part of corporate comms as well.
#general - June 14, 2024 at 05:03 PM
happy to share them on that call next week if i can join it. Though the caveats of my schedule certainly apply as I don't want to leave y'all hanging. @Alexie Glover can you add me?
#general - June 14, 2024 at 04:58 PM
@Shannon Howard i definitely still have the process doc that we presented as part of the creation of the Golden Grot Awards.
#general - June 14, 2024 at 04:37 PM
Not this year 😞 Gonna miss you all.
#general - June 12, 2024 at 04:26 PM
So perhaps dumb financial question, How do yoy handle the taxes that come along with it? Do y’all pay them or is that on the winner?
#open-share - May 15, 2024 at 03:38 PM
@Liza McGraw i have a few examples. Will revert back later today with them, but just wanted to put a stake in the ground to say I see you and will make sure to share when I'm through with my crazy meeting morning.
#random - May 14, 2024 at 02:16 PM
mic drop
#general - April 20, 2024 at 10:14 AM
Like @Valeria Gomez, I've been to the one in NYC and the Bay Area one last year and enjoyed them both. I thought the one in the Bay Area was done better than the one in NYC as it was over 2 days (though they could have scheduled things a little bit better on day 2 as it was on a friday). The content they put together is definitely worthwhile for folks any place along their CMA journey. But depending on where you are in that journey or what you're current priorities are, the agendas can be either more or less effective for you.
#general - March 18, 2024 at 07:36 PM
@Leah Miller here you go
#general - March 15, 2024 at 11:26 PM
@Amanda Peacock mind if i steal this question for a live webinar we are doing on this very subject (Customer Comms) next week?
Something tells me that @Shannon Howard & @Cara Peterson would have opinions.
#open-share - February 20, 2024 at 05:01 PM
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#random - February 09, 2024 at 06:52 PM
@Shannon Howard happy to provide feedback or help in whatever way is best for you. I've submitted a few and read through 1000s of them during our conference CFPs.
#open-share - February 01, 2024 at 07:43 PM
And because any day without Grot is a sad day...here's our latest social campaign for the Golden Grots...
Coincidentally, if any of you know of people in your org working with Grafana, feel free to tell them to apply. A free trip to Amsterdam is in the offing if they win!
#open-share - January 31, 2024 at 10:46 PM
Thanks @Shannon Howard!