How do you create a successful user group?
One of the best ways to bring your Quickbase skills to the next level is by learning from your peers. But what if you're the only app builder or one of a small handful on your team? Forming or joining...
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I had an hour in a dentist chair this morning so I was had the time and was highly motivated to take my mind elsewhere so I gave this some thought.
Your Quick Base Coach, QSP.
- Virtual meetings are the way to go.
- Likely organized around very broad industry verticals such as Healthcare, Manufacturing/Distribution, Services.
- Quick Base can play a strong role in fostering the formation of these Users
groups by... - Providing a point of contact who has say 2 days a week (10%) of their time allocated to fostering user groups.
- Host a once a month meeting of User Group organizers to share best practices, track memberships meeting numbers to measure Meeting Activity Counts. Meeting Activity Count = a single member attending a single meeting. In return for providing those stats to QuickBase to roll up and measure internally, and share with the User groups .....
- Quick Base will provide the group with access to Quick Base's video conferencing service.
- Quick Base will an app written and put in the Exchange to help User Groups stay organized with email lists and a place to post sample code. Perhaps Sponsor a hackathon or get it written by a QSP. The app will allow the easy tracking of attendance.
- Providing a variation on a the very new Builder Accounts for the User Groups to use for their user group purposes. It would need to allow the transferring in of apps and probably EOTI access.
- Have a breakout session at EMPOWER 2019 to have people interested in starting up a User Group meet to share Best Practices. There are probably many attendees who have had User Group Experience for other "Affinities" and they could offer up their ideas as to what makes User Groups succeed and fail.
- Based on the incredible success of User Groups in 2019 plan to allocate meeting room availability at the Empower 2020 for any user groups who want to meet in person after only seeing each other on video all during 2019. So virtual meetings during the year and then do an annual in person meeting starting at at EMPOWER 2020, that would also be on video conferencing for those unable to travel.
Your Quick Base Coach, QSP.