General Chat

Hi Everyone,

I’m Natasha and I’ve worked at Genes for 2 ½ years and have a keen personal interest in family history. You may have met me before if you have visited one of the family history events we run throughout the year!

I wanted to let you know that I have recently taken on a new position within Genes Reunited as Community Manager. This is a brand new role, we have never had a Community Manager before, so this will be a learning process for us all. My main aim will be to make sure that people are getting the most out of the boards and the thriving online community Genes has to offer. I will be listening to your suggestions, and making recommendations to the Product team for new features and changes that apply to the boards.

I will not be acting as a full time moderator to the boards but I’ll be there to offer some extra support and guidance as to how the boards should be used. You should feel free to PM me and I will do my best to answer your questions and queries when I can but please be patient as I will be fitting this role around other work I have. We still encourage people to contact customer support directly if they are having difficulties with the site or their account.

Looking forward to working with you all,

Natasha

Hello Natasha.....nice to meet you:)

Will you have any authority with RR' ing...posts being reported and remved??

jude :-)

Hi Jude,

This will still go through Customer Support but if there is a particular case you would like me to look into then please feel free to message me.

Natasha

Welcome, Natasha.

I hope you enjoy your new role.

Gwynne

Welcome to your new role Natasha,

One thing I have noticed is that some members, I am one of them, have political or religious views that we like to debate.

However some members like to avoid these topics, so maybe we could have a Political Chat Board and a Religious Chat Board, thereby segregating these from the General Chat Board.

Best Wishes

Thanks Gwynne :)

Hi OneFootInTheGrave,

Thanks for the suggestion of alternative boards - as with ideas on the Suggestion Board - I will make sure that these are passed onto the Genes Team.

Thank you Natasha:)

jude

Welcome Natasha, I hope that you enjoy your new role.

Hello Natasha, Wishing you the very best of luck, I hope you enjoy your new role

Paula

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Welcome Natasha.

Vera

If your first post follows GRU form then we shall not hear from you again for a month or so at which time you will announce that all the helpers will be happy to do free research for a dozen happy winners from Facebook ... after which silence will resume.

I suppose things might change.

Where is your avatar ?

Hi RolloTheRed,

The Community Manager is a new role and although it is part of a larger role I do indeed to dip in and out of the boards every day during office hours. You can also PM me any questions you have.

The avatar is coming soon...

Hello Natasha,

Welcome,and we'd be most happy to see you on the boards as and when time allows and you're nerves have hardened some. :-D.

Look forward to any new news that you pass on.


PS,When are we going to know the new package names and whos won a prize.?

Hi Natasha and welcome :-D
Hope you'll be happy in your new role.

Mau

Hello Natasha, I hope you find the new role....interesting! lol,

It will be good if you are able to sometimes pop into the suggestions board if only to confirm that posts there are still being read :-)

Also if I might suggest here that attention be paid to the many queries on the FB page, where a quick response from staff could well lead to new paying customers.

Good luck!

Hi Natasha,
Welcome to the MAD HOUSE.
You willsee in a few weeks time why we call it the mad house. :-D :-D

Welcome Natasha :-)

welcome to the board and good luck in your new role, i think your guna need it ;-)

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