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Hi all — I'm Jen Abbey, Director of Project Management at Carmichael Lynch in Minneapolis. Looking forward to seeing you next week at Leap!

Hi Everyone, My name is Julie Wago and I work for Getty Images as a Sr. Manager in our Marketing Operations team based in Seattle. In addition to being our Workfront Administrator, I manage a team of project managers and together we help to execute on our company's marketing initiatives. We implemented Workfront a year ago and I'm now looking to improve things by focusing on a few areas, such as capacity & resource planning and enhancement of our user experience. This will be my first LEAP conference and I'm looking forward to learning a lot and meeting other fellow Workfront attendees. Cheers!

Hi, everyone! I'm Becka and I'm the brand manager for a large healthcare organization based in Toledo, Ohio. We span the continuum of care from hospitals and primary care providers to home health care and hospice. We are 17,000 strong and serve 27 counties in northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan. In addition to my brand manager responsiblities, I'm also the system admin for our instance of Workfront. Our marketing communications divison serves as an in-house agency for the organization - marketing/advertising, design, video, digital, PR, etc. We use Workfront to manage our daily workflows and intake customer requests. We've been up and running on Workfront for about 18 months and it's only getting better as we go. I spend about 60% of my day in Workfront ... My goal is to get that much higher, but we are still in the transition phase of moving communication/work out of email and over to Workfront. The implementation of this community is fantastic. I often look to my peers for help working through an issue and having access to a whole group of people I can learn from, and in turn help, is priceless. I echo Skye's request for breaking out the forums into smaller focus areas. It'd be very helpful to be able to target the type of conversations I'm interested in. For example, we are no where close to being able to implement resource planning/leveling, so those conversations aren't of much interest to me. But reports/dashboards or approval workflows? That's a horse of a different color. Outside of work, much of my time involves my fur-kid, Rosie - a (almost) four year-old Boston Terrier/Bulldog mix. My favorite thing in life right now is a new podcast - The West Wing Weekly. (Does anyone else wish that Josiah Barlett was running for president?) I'm an NPR junkie and love music - musicals, classical, jazz, opera, bluegrass, 80s power ballads, 90s boy bands.

Jennifer and Julie, I hope you both had a blast at LEAP! So glad to have you in the community. In Reply to Jennifer Abbey and Jullie Wago:

This will be my first LEAP conference and I'm looking forward to learning a lot and meeting other fellow Workfront attendees.

Becka, I'm so glad you're a part of this community! Just so you and Skye know, we are planning to build out the community into more focused forums. My goal is to make the forum like a house party. I don't want it to feel like a mosh pit (so many people in one forum that you can't keep track of anything or get any value out of it) and I don't want anyone standing in a room completely alone because we chose to build out the new toipcs too quickly. Keep sending me feedback, as it's the best way for me and the Workfront Team here to know what to build out next. In Reply to Becka Johns:

The implementation of this community is fantastic. I often look to my peers for help working through an issue and having access to a whole group of people I can learn from, and in turn help, is priceless. I echo Skye's request for breaking out the forums into smaller focus areas. It'd be very helpful to be able to target the type of conversations I'm interested in. For example, we are no where close to being able to implement resource planning/leveling, so those conversations aren't of much interest to me. But reports/dashboards or approval workflows? That's a horse of a different color.

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