Everyone has been putting their own report of what they learned from the CLR team on their blog, so I thought I would add mine. I was lucky enough to have dinner with them twice this week and had plenty of time to get to know them, just like a friend you know from the user group. The first night anyone that attended the UG could have come out with us after the meeting and talked with the CLR guys. They stayed out with us until Midnight after a long day and long flight. Let me tell you, the Microsoft guys that travel and talk with us are the nicest guys you could ever meet and they are always willing to go the extra mile. Over the last 2 years Microsoft has made an effort to see what the users of their products want and have made the effort to go find out. Keep coming out to user groups they are full of great people and the UG leaders are always working hard to get good speakers for you. Big thanks to Microsoft and UG leaders for all the hard work everyone is putting in.
Matt and I, have been giving recaps of the user groups for some time and we have always made them a recap of the meeting. This is a great plan and helps to share what happened at each group, but does not complete the circle. What do I mean by this? Well one of the CLR guys asked me what the UG members thought about each meeting and what was their feedback to the presentations. I told him we only do a recap of the meeting and don’t usually put feedback information on the blog entry. I told him if we do hear feedback about topics or presentations we would try to get some feedback for the Microsoft team about the UGs up with the reviews. So we would really like to get UG members input on the meetings and without putting up names, give some feedback to the meetings. Obviously we will not put up that you didn’t like the meeting because you don’t like the speaker, but anything that can help constructively, we will look into. Come see us at the end of the meeting or leave us some comments! Microsoft is looking for feedback so make sure you get it to them.
—Brendon Schwartz
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