Introduction Lena - Community Management and Engagement on VBA forum

[lena.talkhina]

Hello, everyone, here in the VBA Customization Community forums!

Happy to introduce myself to all of you. My name is Lena and I am Community Manager for the Russian community, working for Autodesk for almost 9 years so far. As you can assume, I am part of global Community Team managing the forums you are active on.

I am based in Moscow, Russia. It is far. And yes, we have snow, I don’t drink vodka, but I can maybe bring you a matreshka 😊

This introduction post is just to say hello to programming world and say about a new opportunity for me to be closer to you. Starting today I am getting active on a regular basis on the VBA Customization Forum!

I have an Inventor technical and AutoCAD CAD Management background, but I have no clue how you do the magic with coding. I did have programming classes and learned old fashioned assembler, turbo pascal, Delphi and a bit of c++, but it doesn't make me an expert in the industry, so, please excuse any miss understanding and don't hesitate to educate me in technical. English is my second language and I do use wrong grammar from time to time or try to translate from Russian to English word by word. I would appreciate if you kindly correct me in PM and help me to improve my skills.

So my role here is just help you to make discussions productive and clear understandable for everyone.

By saying that, I mean I will regularly check the forum to make sure that current discussion topics can be found by updating topic titles in a meaningful way and in one or another topic you might see me following up and engaging in discussions so an Accepted Solution might be marked.

Also, I am going to move the one or another topic to the correct board in case it got posted in the wrong forum.

I will also help you to use forum features to make posts visually more effective by adding attached images to the post's body. If you have any questions, send me a private message and I will show you how to use different tools on forums or refer you to the right page with information you need.

Happy to be around and also see that some Expert Elites active here, listed in the top solution authors on the right rail bar I already know or even have met in person. Definitely also happy to get to know everyone here on the VBA Customization forum!

And I would like to be sure that every user on this forum feel free to discuss their needs and find solutions and don’t hesitate to reach out to me in PMs if you have any question about my role here.

And here is a picture of just a Russian girl in a big Autodesk world.

[lena.talkhina]

Posting this introduction I would also encourage you to share any thoughts how we can make this VB forum better and comfortable to participate into.

Please, share any feedback you have here in comments.

I respect all specifics we have in the customization industry and would like to use my experience and best community practices to improve our collaboration and communication.

[Ed__Jobe]

Hi Lena,

The name of the forum has always been an issue. This forum is for VBA, not VB.Net. Sometimes users post questions here for .Net and I have to get the moderator to move them. Can we rename the forum to "VBA Customization" or just "VBA"?

[lena.talkhina]

@Ed__Jobe 

thank you for explaining the difference! Because I did the same mistake writing VB instead of VBA.

I am sure we can rename the forum. Let me send the request internally to make it real.

Don't hesitate to reach out to community managers on Community Feedback forum, we are more than welcome to help in such cases.

[lena.talkhina]

The forum's name has been changed!

Thank you for all your feedback and looking forward to make this forum more and more effective for all of you.