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A couple of good and insightful posts here from Feverbee ICYMI;Types Of Questions And Types Of Expertise - What vs How questions and you deliver more value to members by asking, responding to, (and nurturing experts to respond to) the how…? questions.If You Want An Answer, Ask A Question - Posts which include a ‘?’ (i.e. ask a question in the subject line) get around 52% more responses.Would love to hear your thoughts on the above quick reads.

HashiCorp is currently doing a Gainsight NXT Implementation and looking to hire a Gainsight Admin. Click HERE for more detail and to apply!  

Nice idea from Coursera and shared on the Feverbee blogSet Goals and Add To Calendar - When members join, invite them to set a goal for themselves. It can be to visit on [x] number of days. Or it can be to achieve a certain rank, learn a specific skill, or read a set number of articles.

Hello! My organization is mid-rollout for Gainsight and I am starting to plan forward for its ongoing operations. I am wondering if it makes sense to hire a full-time Gainsight admin. Those I've spoken to so far have indicated that it is common to have one admin fulfill both roles, especially for smaller organizations. In our case we would initially have an experienced SFDC admin picking up Gainsight. Does anyone have an opinion on what the workload is for ongoing operations? Or alternatively, at what number of users is it worth having the role separated out? Some variables to consider are: - Number of Gainsight users - Number of Salesforce users - Multiple geographic locations - Multiple functions - Eventually using automation in Gainsight, but limited automation initially I found this post regarding combining it w/ an SFDC role, but it did not address company size or user base:

HI All New to the Gainsight community so delighted to be here. I would be interested to know from other Gainsight CS Leaders if their customer basic are technical (Coders / developers) and what their response / engagement is like from these customers with their CSMs. Also have you experimented with different channels of communication (Email / Survey / Phone / Zoom) and which have you found to be the best channel for Engagement.  Looking forward to discussing this topic.  Thanks Damien

Hi All,  Hearty and warm welcome to the Gainsight GameChangers Community! In May, over 100 new members joined the conversation. We’d love for you to introduce yourself here, so we can get to know more about you!  Sometimes new users hesitate to start their own question or discussion; but there is no such thing as a dumb question! If you find a reply that’s too technical or complicated, don't hesitate to ask for clarification. We are always ready to help!! And to show you how Gainsight and our product team is always listening, these ideas all originated in Community and were implemented in the last 2 years. Below is a chart of the number of community asks and

Hi All,  Hearty and warm welcome to the Gainsight GameChangers Community! In May, over 100 new members joined the conversation. We’d love for you to introduce yourself here, so we can get to know more about you!  Sometimes new users hesitate to start their own question or discussion; but there is no such thing as a dumb question! If you find a reply that’s too technical or complicated, don't hesitate to ask for clarification. We are al

Hi Folks, I will be attempting Gainsight NXT Admin certification on 25th June. I have some Salesforce Background and I am a Salesforce Certified Advance Administrator and has been using Gainsight for a while now.  I just wanted to know if there are any other study material/Test questions that I can go through apart from Admin Training for NXT and Study Guide ?   Thank you in Advance for all your inputs!   Best Regards, Ajit Shukla

Hi all I was recently laid off due to budget cuts as a result of COVID-19.  I’m looking for a new opportunity in Success Operations.  Please let me know if you have or know of anything that might be a good fit. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heather-hansen-2695ab1/ Thank you!!  

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This year for April Fool’s we played a trick on @Julian. For a couple of hours, inSpired became a place for Julians to discuss all things Julian (if you had the inSided employee custom user role). Julian took it pretty well - so I can only assume he’s been pranked in the past (maybe by @Ditte...).  Here’s what Julian and the rest of our inSided colleagues saw on inSpired...   How To Julian, Julian Articles and Julian best practices (we’ve got plenty of them)!  Julian voting on his own ideas, providing articles for himself, and asking himself questions.

My client based in San Francisco, CA/Chicago, IL has an excellent opportunity for a Gainsight solution architect/Administrator.  Please let me know if you're interested, and contact me on nkishore@lat36.com.  thanks!   #Gainsight #Gainsight_Admin #Gainsight_architect

You may have noticed some recent improvements to Community search!   Advanced Filters When you search for information on the Community, you now have advanced filters available. Filter options include categories (CS, PX, Product News, etc.), post type (ideas, questions, articles), and tags.     Category specific search When you search within a specific category, the dynamic search results (displayed directly under the search bar) are limited to that particular category. If you view the complete list of results, you will see potential matches from across the community, along with the advanced filter options.     Happy searching!

We are evaluating Gainsight NXT and have some confusion on Salesforce Integration and Licensing - specifically this statement: If you have Gainsight users who don’t have access to Salesforce, they no longer have to bother with the Salesforce login process. They will be setup with a Gainsight login and username and will log into Gainsight directly (yay!).   These users will be able to access Salesforce data that’s been integrated into Gainsight via our Salesforce Connector. And any modifications that these users make to Salesforce data can be pushed back to Salesforce to keep your data in sync. This reads to us we could have 50 Gainsight NXT users whom are non-salesforce users updating Salesforce data? We are concerned as this seems to contradict Salesforce MSA on integration and indirect access that each user updating salesforce data requires a salesforce license. Does anyone have any insight here?     

Does anyone use Salesforce to house their Community? If so, how do you pull engagement data from the community into Gainsight?

Hey, I am getting ready to take the Gainsight Admin exam and I was wondering if there were any other exam prep materials out there to study from besides the training videos/quizzes? Any sort of tips and ideas would be useful!   Respectfully, Jose

I’m an experienced Gainsight user who is new to Gainsight Admin. Hoping to connect wih other Admins to get me through the pain of learning. I’ve inherited an instance and I’m not seeing the Admin part of it get an easier as I go through the online training. Hoping to develop a support network to help me get over the hump! I appreciate any connections!! Thank you.

The 2020 Community Industry Trends Report is available from CMXhub - it’s free and ungated. It provides some really good insights - top frustration for community managers - increase engagement. Most common objective for community managers - customer retention and loyalty. Less than 50% of community managers are able to track customer retention and less that a third are using a CRM tool to link to customer data. I am excited that InSided has a saleforce plugin that will link to customer data in development, this will help me show value and track customer retention. Download it today and share your thoughts

Prior to the recent Gainsight Community platform change, emails from the community when a post was created or updated would contain the context of the post.  This was so much more efficient – I could read the context of the post and/or the update directly in the email and if it wasn’t something that interests me or to which I feel obliged to reply, I could just discard it.Additionally, I’ve observed that I’m getting emails that say a “new” post was created, but it’s actually a response to a prior post.As an example, please see below.  I received this email today and it states “A new topic has been created in CS ideas” created by user “jaw”  However, when I clicked on the link to go view the post, I found that this was actually posted 5 months ago.  Apparently the reason I am getting an email to