The LabVIEW Community

I recently attended a Community Engagement Conference where I got re-energized to the many ways we (our users and the LabVIEW team) can work together.  I hope to bring some of those ideas to the LabVIEW community in the coming months.  About 10 years ago, I moved into our Web team to help steer our efforts for ni.com.  That experience reminds me a lot of what I heard last week at the Community conference as we all try to figure out this whole community/Web 2.0 thing.  I shared some thoughts with the conference organizer, who (like a good community builder) immediately put them up on his blog (http://blog.customerreferenceforum.com/). 

We have always tried to listen to our customers and “let them in” on our latest ideas and directions at NIWeek.  After spending two days thinking and talking about the potential of reaching out to your community of users, I am convinced we can do a whole lot more.  Rather than talk about it, I hope you guys see it in action over the next several months.  We’ll see (it starts with me keeping up with this new blog – another outcome of my Community conference awakening).