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michelle.fifis
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michelle.fifisCommunity Manager
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New: Product Makers book club

Hello Product Makers!Summer is quickly approaching, and we're excited to dive into some summer reading with the community! ⛱️Here's how it will work:Every 2-3 months, we'll choose a book as a community. I'll post weekly discussion questions within the book club group, and at the end of the book, we'll come together to discuss and nominate titles to read next. Want to get involved?Please vote on our first book and join the book club group to participate! Voting will end on May 27th. 

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malloryallen
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michelle.fifis
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This week in the community 5/15/22

This week there are three informative events taking place as part of our Sprint Break! These 15-minute sessions are at 8 am, 10 am, and 12 pm PT—so you can quickly boost your product IQ while taking a well-deserved break from your sprint planning. Even if you can’t attend live, we encourage you to register and we’ll deliver the on-demand content straight to your inbox. At the end of each session please share your key takeaways and thoughts on Talk product. Here’s what’s happening this week in the community:👋  Monday:  Join us for Top Roadmap Mistakes & PM Best Practice Tips 🎥 Tuesday:  Join us for How to Achieve and Maintain Product Excellence and be sure to check your inbox for the latest edition of Maker Matters, our semi-monthly email digest 💬  Wednesday: Join us for Building Efficiencies with the Right Processes & Tools and then head over to Talk product to share your key takeaways and check out our latest Featured Maker post.   Friday:  We'll wrap up the week by highlig

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michelle.fifis
Community Manager
1 day ago
michelle.fifis
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michelle.fifisCommunity Manager
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Winners announcement: Product Makers Community Challenge

We are so excited to announce the winners of our Product Makers Community Challenge!First prize: Seif Badri, Drilling Engineering Solutions Manager, Helmerich & Payne. Congrats to @sebad for winning a trip to San Francisco, including flight, hotel, and food ($2000 in value).  🛩 Second prize: Nibu Thomas, Director Information Development, Whatfix. Congrats to @Nibu for winning a Product Managers care package, including a gift box and Product Makers swag ($300 value). 🎁 Third prize: Pieter Smits, Product Manager, Drieam. Congrats to @pjsmits for winning a gift card of his choice ($200 value). 💌We want to send a big thank you to all of the participants. We appreciate your contributions to the community! 😍

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david.morgan
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michelle.fifis
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michelle.fifisCommunity Manager
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This week in the community 5/8/22

Here’s what’s happening this week in the community:👋  Monday:  Monday: If you registered for our Meet a Maker program, be on the lookout for your match. If you are not registered, sign up before our next round of matches goes out on Monday, May 23rd.  🎥 Tuesday:  New to Productboard? Get started with our 30-minute webinar covering the basics, with an optional 15 minutes for Q&A. We’ll show you how to turn customer feedback into actionable data, make quick feature prioritization decisions, and create simple roadmaps for your colleagues. Available during European and North American friendly times. 💬  Wednesday: Join us for our May 2022 Product Makers roundtable event. Our monthly Product Maker roundtables bring together people to share knowledge, expertise, and experiences.   🗣 Thursday:  Troubleshooting user interviews: from no-shows to awkward silences. Join Michele Hansen, co-founder of Geocodio, co-host of the Software Social Podcast, and author of Deploy Empathy, as she expl

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michelle.fifis
Community Manager
8 days ago
scott.baldwin
Community Lead
scott.baldwinCommunity Lead
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Product Makers Ambassador: Julia Matthews

Meet @jrmatthews who’s one of our Product Makers Ambassadors. 🎉Ambassadors are passionate product makers that are interested in helping us continue to grow this community into the destination for product makers to connect, grow their product knowledge and practices, and solidify their use of Productboard as their ‘command center’.We’re excited to have Julia helping us out.Get to know JuliaJulia is a Customer Experience Analyst at DataRobot, and jumped into the Productboard workspace on day one, defining new processes and using insights notes in her research. She works on the Customer and User Intelligence team conducting research on DataRobot user feedback and behaviors. Julia is also a member of the core team of PrideBots, DataRobot’s LGBTQIA+ community collective. These days you might find her in the yoga studio, playing guitar, tinkering with her bike, or practicing her latte art skills.Why did you want to get involved as an Ambassador? I find the more I participate in the Product

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scott.baldwin
Community Lead
19 days ago
scott.baldwin
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scott.baldwinCommunity Lead
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Maker Matters - May 2022

Welcome to the May edition of Maker Matters, a monthly digest about our Product Makers community.Product thoughtBuilding products is a team effort. No one person makes a product happen. When teams are working well we instinctively know it and feel it — both inside and outside the team. It’s a well-running engine, with everyone feeding off one another like a good jazz quartet in the motion of making music and improvising. The best product teams bring three attributes to bear - autonomy, mastery, and purpose. Teams that have each excel at tackling the challenges in front of them and have the room and space to creatively bring to light the right problems and solutions and drive business outcomes.Oddly when it goes sideways it often has a habit of ever so slowly sneaking up on us until it’s too late. Often those issues are because we didn’t give our teams the empowerment they needed and the room to apply their skills and experience to solving customer needs and problems.If you’re feeling l

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Jaden Schmeisser
Productboard
19 days ago
michelle.fifis
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michelle.fifisCommunity Manager
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This week in the community 5/1/22

Here’s what’s happening this week in the community:📖  Tuesday:  The job market is hot right now, 🔥  and we know many of you are busy interviewing for PM jobs and hiring PMs for your team. Check in on Tuesday to share the one interview question you are always prepared to answer. 🆕  Wednesday: Join us for our monthly Product Makers community check-in! This is a time for us to come together to discuss what’s happening in Product Makers, what’s coming up, and hear what you are currently working on.  🗣 Thursday:  Prioritizing to build what customers need: saying no to 1000 things. Join Laura Andina, Senior Product Manager at Productboard, as she shares what happens in companies when it's time to prioritize. We will discuss the risks and benefits of these methods and, lastly, and most importantly, share some actionable advice that can hopefully take your priorities to the next level.  Friday:  We'll wrap up the week by highlighting the top community discussions, welcoming new members, an

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michelle.fifis
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15 days ago
michelle.fifis
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This week in the community 4/24/22

Reminder: Want to win a trip to San Francisco or one of our other amazing prizes? Download our Product Makers Community Challenge game card and get started! The challenge ends on April 30, 2022, so there are only a few days to enter.Here’s what’s happening this week in the community:👋  Monday:  We have many exciting announcements on Monday, including information about our upcoming 2022 Sprint Break and our first community collaborative project! Be sure to stop by the community and see what’s new. 📖  Tuesday:  @scott.baldwin and I will be sharing links to our favorite product-related blog posts, podcasts, and resources of the week in our Reads and listens category. Please share your findings as well. 🆕  Wednesday: Want to discover innovative change management methods to help product teams stay productive? Join us for How to Implement a Change Management Strategy. 🗣 Thursday:  Join us for Building hardware in a software world. This workshop teaches strategies and techniques to differ

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michelle.fifis
Community Manager
22 days ago
michelle.fifis
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Changes to the community

Hello Product Makers!After reviewing your feedback and suggestions, we've made a few changes to our community that you might have noticed.These changes include:Past events. You can find all of our event recordings in this new category. This category is a goldmine of great information,  so please take some time to check it out.  Talk random. This new category was a community request that we are excited to launch. Want to connect with others in the community about something other than product? Talk random is the place to share it. We look forward to hearing what you are up to outside of product! Using Productboard is now called Talk Productboard Product in Practice is now called Talk productPlease keep sending your ideas and suggestions our way. We value your input and appreciate your participation and leadership within the community.

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michelle.fifis
Community Manager
1 month ago
michelle.fifis
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michelle.fifisCommunity Manager
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This week in the community 4/17/22

Hello Product Makers! Reminder: Want to win a trip to San Francisco or one of our other amazing prizes? Download our Product Makers Community Challenge game card and contribute to the community by attending an event or replying to a topic. Hint: Check out the list of events below and choose the task that works best for you!Here’s what’s happening this week in the community:👋  Monday:  Are you participating in our Product Makers Community Challenge? Make some progress on your game card by sharing one way you plan on taming the dangerous animals of product management this week. Reply with your strategy below. 📖  Tuesday:  Scott and I will be sharing links to our favorite product-related blog posts, podcasts, and resources of the week in our new Reads and listens category. Please share your findings as well! 🆕  Wednesday: Free training: Create custom prioritization formulas. With the release of Formulas, Productboard now unlocks your ability to use industry-leading prioritization frame

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michelle.fifis
Community Manager
29 days ago
michelle.fifis
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michelle.fifisCommunity Manager
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This week in the community 4/10/22

Hello Product Makers! Here’s what’s happening this week in the community:👋  Monday:  Are you participating in our Product Makers Community Challenge? Make some progress by replying below with one way you’re taming the dangerous animals of product management. 📖  Tuesday:  Building the Product Management Organization of the Future. Join guest speaker, Forrester Principal Analyst Sam Somashekar, and Erica Jenkins, CPO at Crayon, and Productboard, as we explore the trends impacting and upending the traditional product organization.  🆕  Wednesday: Join us for our April 2022 Product Makers roundtable event. Our monthly Product Makers roundtables bring together people to share knowledge, expertise, and experiences.  🗣 Thursday:  What comes first: juggling product priorities. Join @Andrew Fragias as he explores the many challenges a product manager can face when prioritizing new features, bug fixes, and enhancements. Learn what methods you can apply and what you need to consider when prior

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michelle.fifis
Community Manager
1 month ago
scott.baldwin
Community Lead
scott.baldwinCommunity Lead
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Product Makers Ambassador: Adam Bourjaily

Meet @abourjaily who’s one of our Product Makers Ambassadors. 🎉Ambassadors are passionate product makers that are interested in helping us continue to grow this community into the destination for product makers to connect, grow their product knowledge and practices, and solidify their use of Productboard as their ‘command center’.We’re excited to have Adam helping us out.Get to know AdamAdam is a product manager at KPA and joined our community in October 2021. Originally from Chicago, IL, Adam relocated to Colorado back in 2019.  He loves all things product and enjoys talking about philosophy, process, and sharing experiences.  When not researching the next roadmap project, you will typically find Adam in the Colorado rocky mountains rock climbing, hiking, or snowboarding.Why did you want to get involved as an Ambassador? Product management is a passion of mine.  My intention for initially joining Productboard’s amazing product community was to connect with other product individuals,

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scott.baldwin
Community Lead
1 month ago
scott.baldwin
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Product Makers Ambassador: Andrew Fragias

Meet @Andrew Fragias  who’s one of our Product Makers Ambassadors. 🎉Ambassadors are passionate product makers that are interested in helping us continue to grow this community into the destination for product makers to connect, grow their product knowledge and practices, and solidify their use of Productboard as their ‘command center’.We’re excited to have Andrew helping us out.Get to know AndrewAndrew is the GridBuddy Connect Product Manager at Validity and previously worked in consulting roles helping customers with user productivity, Salesforce CRM and Marketing Cloud projects.Why did you want to get involved as an Ambassador?I wanted to find a method to pass on my learnings to others as I continue to grow in a Product Management role. There are times throughout your growth when you need to be able to converse with others and share experiences to be able to fully understand how to handle a particular situation and without Ambassadors, you would not be able to identify who to turn t

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scott.baldwin
Community Lead
1 month ago
scott.baldwin
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scott.baldwinCommunity Lead
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Maker Matters - April 2022

Welcome to the April edition of Maker Matters, a monthly digest about our Product Makers community.Product thoughtI had a bunch of friends in product lose their jobs last week. That’s never a fun thing to go through at any point in your career. If you’ve ever been through a job loss, it can often feel like you’ve done something wrong and even a bit personal at times.Here are some tips I shared that may also be helpful to others going through career change: Create a “wins” or “awesome” folder and stick in things that remind you of what went well. You can stick in photos, emails from colleagues and customers, thank-you’s, etc. that you’ve received and return to these when needed. If you didn’t do that in your current role, spend some time seeing what you can find. This can be super helpful for clearing your head and also contextualizing your impact and as a reminder of the friendships. Take some time to regroup and consider your next steps. A few days off, exercise and walks with frien

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scott.baldwin
Community Lead
1 month ago
michelle.fifis
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michelle.fifisCommunity Manager
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Product Makers Summit: Recordings posted

Curious how other Product Managers are using Productboard? Want to learn product management best practices?Then you'll want to check out the session recordings from last week's Product Makers Summit. I'm curious to hear your key takeaways and lessons learned, so please add them below! 👇Download the Product Makers Community Challenge game card for your chance to win a trip to San Francisco!

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michelle.fifis
Community Manager
1 month ago
michelle.fifis
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michelle.fifisCommunity Manager
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This week in the community 4/3/22

Hello Product Makers! Here's what's happening this week in the community: 👋  Monday:  Get a jump start on your chance to win a trip to San Francisco by making or replying to a community introduction. 📖  Tuesday:  Read anything interesting lately? Visit our Reads and listens category to swap helpful resources and reading recommendations. Also, check your inbox for Maker Matters, our semi-monthly email digest.  🆕  Wednesday: Join us for our first Product Makers community check-in! This is a time for us to come together to discuss what’s happening in Product Makers, what’s coming up, and hear what you are currently working on.  🗣 Thursday:  Visit the community to participate in our monthly Love it or leave it community discussion and read our new Featured Maker article.  Friday:  We'll wrap up the week by highlighting the top community discussions, welcoming new members, and more.

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michelle.fifis
Community Manager
1 month ago
michelle.fifis
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michelle.fifisCommunity Manager
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MVP award winners!

At yesterday’s Product Makers Summit we announced our community MVPs, recognizing community members who go above and beyond to make Product Makers an informative and supportive community. Let’s give a big congrats to the winners. 🏆Sam Gioia (@samgioia), Director of Product at Dubsado.com, California, USA Andrew Fragias (@Andrew Fragias), Product Manager at Validity, Sydney, Australia Pieter Strouven (@pieter.strouven), Principal Product Manager at Proxyclick You can follow in their footsteps, and have a chance to win a free trip to the 2022 Product Excellence awards, by participating in the Product Makers Community Challenge. ✈️

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danielle.belanger
Productboard
26 days ago
michelle.fifis
Community Manager
michelle.fifisCommunity Manager
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Product Makers Community Challenge - win a trip to San Francisco

We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Product Makers Community Challenge! This is your chance to win a free trip to San Francisco.   Contest dates: March 30- April 30, 2022  How to enter:  Complete the list of community activities on the downloadable game card, which includes sharing a photo with a dangerous animal printout to LinkedIn or Twitter using #ProductMakersCommunityChallenge (see below) Submit a photo of your game card as a comment  Winners will be selected in a random drawing within approximately five days of the end of the contest  Prizes: A trip to San Francisco, which includes flight, hotel, and food ($2000 in value)  A Product Managers care package, which includes a gift box and Product Makers swag ($300 value) A gift card of your choice ($200 value) No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited. Ends April 30, 2022. For official rules, see below.ProductBoard Product Makers Community Challenge Giveaway Official RulesNo Purchase Nece

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scott.baldwin
Community Lead
20 days ago
michelle.fifis
Community Manager
michelle.fifisCommunity Manager
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This week in the community 3/27/22

Hello Product Makers! This week @scott.baldwin and I will be in San Francisco for our inaugural Product Makers Summit! 🎉The event takes place on Wednesday, March 30th, both online and in-person, at The Pearl, San Francisco. It is open to the entire product community. During this event, you’ll: learn how to level up your skills see deep dives into how Productboard helps teams create customer-centric products get insights into how our team at Productboard uses Productboard and their best practices 👉 Register here.This week we have several exciting announcements scheduled, including: 🎥 An upcoming webinar on Building the Product Management Organization of the Future ✈️ The Product Makers Community Challenge - this one is BIG! 🏆 Recognizing our community MVP award winners We hope to see you at the Product Makers Summit on Wednesday, online or in-person!

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michelle.fifis
Community Manager
1 month ago
michelle.fifis
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Product Makers book club?

Hello Product Makers!We're considering starting a book club in Q2 and would love to get your input! What books would you be interested in reading and discussing as a community? Please add your ideas in the comments👇 

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michelle.fifis
Community Manager
1 month ago
michelle.fifis
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michelle.fifisCommunity Manager
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Announcing: Product Makers Summit agenda

Our Product Makers Summit on March 30th is quickly approaching, and we are excited to connect with so many of you in person! 🥳 If you are not able to be in San Francisco, please still register for the event so that you can join us virtually and have access to the recordings.You are welcome to explore the full agenda, but here are the speaker highlights:12:30 PM - 12:50 PM PDT: Welcome Address by @Zach, SVP of Customer Success at Productboard 12:50 PM - 1:10 PM PDT: 3 Hard-learned Lessons from a Product Manager turned CEO by @hubertpalan, CEO & Co-Founder of Productboard 1:10 PM - 1:35 PM PDT: Hear from Productboard customer, @mlasarga, Group Product Manager at Postclick 1:50 PM - 2:10 PM PDT: How Productboard Uses Productboard with @Sophie Lalonde, Senior Product Manager at Productboard 2:40 PM - 3:05 PM PDT: Hear from Productboard customer, @matt.johlie, Product Operations Lead at Relativity 3:25 PM - 3:55 PM PDT: Product Keynote: A Look Ahead with @SK_Productboard, SVP of Produc

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michelle.fifis
Community Manager
2 months ago
michelle.fifis
Community Manager
michelle.fifisCommunity Manager
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This week in the community 3/20/22

Hello Product Makers! Here's what's happening this week in the community: 👋  Monday:  Kick off the week by telling us what you're working on and hope to achieve this week.  🔥  Tuesday:  Fireside Chat: how to enhance cross-functional team collaboration. At this live event, you’ll learn strategies to keep cross-functional teams aligned around the product vision, enable key stakeholders to understand the ‘why’ behind what’s being built next and streamline collaborative processes that can help your team run faster together. 📈  Wednesday: Product Bets Gone Wrong with Productboard and Mixpanel. Attention all product leaders! Learn how to build and scale a strong product team, implement team alignment strategies, and leverage standardized tools and processes that can help boost productivity at this free workshop.  Thursday:  Join us for Taking customer centricity to the next level: the art and science of product integrations. We’re pulling back the curtains for this event and inviting you

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michelle.fifis
Community Manager
1 month ago
michelle.fifis
Community Manager
michelle.fifisCommunity Manager
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This week in the community 3/13/22

Hello Product Makers! Here's what's happening this week in the community: 👋  Monday:  If you registered for our new Meet a Maker program, be on the lookout for your match! If you are not registered, be sure to sign up before our next round of matches goes out on March 28th    Tuesday:  We'll be sharing links to our favorite product-related blog posts, podcasts, and resources of the week in our Reads and listens category. Please share your finds as well!  Thursday:  Join us for Navigating a career in product with Product Makers community members: Rachel Brown, Sam Gioia, and Sam Kawtharani.  Friday:  Join us for Break the Bias: How Powerful Women Build Powerful Careers, and we'll wrap up the week by highlighting the top community discussions, welcoming new members, and more. 

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michelle.fifis
Community Manager
2 months ago
michelle.fifis
Community Manager
michelle.fifisCommunity Manager
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Ideas on how to improve Product Makers? Let's chat!

Hi Product Makers!If you have 15 minutes, I would love to chat with you about ways that we can improve the Product Makers community and what topics you would like to see covered in the future. As the Product Makers Community Specialist, I'm constantly looking for ways to improve the community and your insights will be greatly appreciated.Reserve your time here. 👋I look forward to meeting you and hearing about your experiences as a product maker!

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michelle.fifis
Community Manager
2 months ago
michelle.fifis
Community Manager
michelle.fifisCommunity Manager
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Cast your vote: Community MVPs

At our upcoming Product Makers Summit, we'll announce our first Community MVPs recognizing community members who go above and beyond to make Product Makers an informative and supportive community. We'd like to hear from you! Who would you like to nominate for a Product Makers MVP award? And don't be shy, you can even nominate yourself! You'll be entered to win one of three $25 (USD) gift cards by completing the nomination form.  Please submit your nomination by midnight on Friday, March 18.

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michelle.fifis
Community Manager
2 months ago

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