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Esri Community 2022 Q3 Health Metrics: During Q3 we welcomed new community members, which increased our total members 308. We’re excited to see new members join throughout the year and get connected in the Member Introductions board.  If you’re new and haven’t posted here yet, we invite you to drop in and say “hi!,” and tell us what you’re working on. We’d love to hear from you!  During the third quarter we saw an average of 51,200 member logins each month. Community members submitted 684 ideas across the ArcGIS Ideas Exchanges, and Esri Community received 2.1M million visits, with 64% coming from visitors outside of the United States. For 2022 Q3, across the entire community we had more than 4,700 new questions asked, with 33% marked as Accepted Solutions,  41% answered by Esri staff and 20% by community MVPs, who account for 1.32% of all Community members  Learn more about Accepted Solutions in our Quick Tips below. on Esri Community Member Spotlight     We’re excited to share a new monthly series of member spotlights featuring customers from the Esri Community—the people playing a role in finding solutions, sharing ideas, and collaborating to solve problems with GIS. We’re doing this to recognize amazing user contributions, to example how Esri Community’s purpose is being brought to life, and to bring depth to this group of incredible people who may never meet in person, but who benefit from each other’s generous expertise. Josh Carlson Josh is a GIS Analyst for Kendall County, Illinois. In 2021, he earned the role of MVP in Esri Community and won the Elite Level of competition in our Esri Community contest. Our team had the opportunity to interview him in July at User Conference 2022. Luiza Fernandes Luiza is a Senior Digital Innovation Analyst at Arcadis. Our team had the opportunity to meet up with her in the Map Gallery at UC 2022 to learn about "Housing Match," a map she and five colleagues created to facilitate the creation of new housing units for the homeless in São Paulo, and to talk about how Esri Community is playing a role in her work. This wraps up our 2022 Q3 report. Thanks again for your time and support in building relationships and adding value for our customers in Esri Community! Quick tips: *Accepted Solutions are when the person who asked the question marks it as answered, here’s how to mark questions as accepted solutions.  You can also save time by searching questions with accepted solutions. Great solutions start with asking great questions. Follow these instructions to write great questions that generate the most helpful responses.    Thanks again for your time and contributions. You inspire us with your work every day, and we appreciate your support and dedication!   ... View more

Esri Community 2022 Q2 Health Metrics     During Q2 we welcomed 14,700 new community members, which increased our total members to 296,000. It was great to connect with those of you who attended User Conference in San Diego. And we’ve been excited to see new members join throughout the year and get connected in the Member Introduction board.  If you’re new and haven’t posted here yet, we invite you to drop in and say “hi!,” and tell us what you’re working on, we’d love to hear from you.    Speaking of UC, we also invite you to meet some Esri Community members from User Conference 2022 and learn how our community has grown in our new article and video.   During the second quarter we saw an average of 50,600 member logins each month. Community members submitted 557 ideas across the ArcGIS Ideas Exchanges, and Esri Community received 4.2M million visits, with 64% coming from visitors outside of the United States.  For 2022 Q2, across the entire community we had more than 4,600 new questions asked, with 33% marked as Accepted Solutions, and a combined 61% answered by Esri staff and community MVPs, which account for 1.32% of community members.  At the individual place level, the top places for Questions/Accepted Solutions rate were:  ArcGIS Pro  - 33% solution rate  799 questions/260 solutions  ArcGIS Survey123 –  45% solution rate   459 questions/206 solutions  ArcGIS Online – 29% solution rate   399 questions/111 solutions  ArcGIS API for JS  – 33% solution rate   291 questions / 97 solutions   For additional details on Accepted Solutions, see previous updates.   Top Active User Groups   ejSupport Group - 227 posts/678 Kudos   WAB Custom Widgets - 133 posts/36 Kudos   Wildfire GIS - 94 posts/153 Kudos   Experience Builder Custom Widgets 56 posts/16 Kudos   IL Next Generation 9-1-11– 42 posts/13 Kudos   GIS Manager’s Group - 18 posts/25 Kudos  Quick tips:   Accepted Solutions are when the person who asked the question marks it as answered, here’s how to mark questions as accepted solutions.    You can also save time by searching questions with accepted solutions.   Great solutions start with asking great questions. Follow these instructions to generate the most helpful responses to your questions.      Thanks again for your time and contributions.  You inspire us with your work every day, and we appreciate your support and dedication!   ... View more

  Esri Community 2022 Q1 Health Metrics: During Q1 we welcomed 12,500 new community members which increased our total members to 283,000. It was great to connect with those of you who attended DevSummit in March. And we’ve been excited to see all the new members come in this year and get connected in the Member Introduction board.  If you’re new and haven’t posted there yet, we invite you drop in and say “hi!,” and tell us what you’re working on, we’d love to hear from you.  During the first quarter we saw an average of 49,000 member logins each month. Community members submitted 610 ideas across the ArcGIS Ideas Exchanges, and Esri Community received 2 million visits, with 64% coming from visitors outside of the United States. For 2022 Q1, across the entire community we had more than 4,800 new questions asked, with 35% marked as Accepted Solutions, and combined 65% answered by Esri staff and community MVPs, which account for 1.32% of the entire community members.  At the individual place level, the top places for Questions/Accepted Solutions rate were: ArcGIS Survey123 (44%) ArcGIS API for JS (41%) ArcGIS Pro (33%) ArcGIS Online (30%) Quick tips: Accepted Solutions are when the person who asked the question marks it as answered, here’s how to mark questions as accepted solutions.  You can also save time by searching questions with accepted solutions. Great solutions start with asking great questions. Follow these instructions to generate the most helpful responses to your questions.  As we head into Q2, we’re preparing for User Conference in July and looking forward to connecting with you in San Diego. Thanks again for your time and contributions. You inspire us with your work every day, and we appreciate your support and dedication! ... View more

    We have exciting news to share! On January 24, the CMX Community Industry Awards recognized Esri Community as “Community of the Year.”  Previous winners of the CMX awards have included Salesforce, Atlassian and many other best-in-class B2B software communities. This is a tremendous moment of recognition for our Esri user community, and we want to extend a BIG “Thank You” to all our members for making this possible. Winning this coveted award is testament to your passion and constant dedication to helping each other to find solutions, share ideas and collaborate to solve the world’s problems with GIS.    As many of you know, our online Esri Community has a long and meaningful history of collaboration, and our community has existed on several different platforms over the years. Our members have played a pivotal part in the continual success of our community. Most recently, in 2020, we moved to our current platform and during the migration process your feedback, insight and contributions were instrumental in elevating the value and impact of Esri Community. It was this collective effort in 2020 and your longstanding commitment to collaboration and GIS, that helped our community to achieve this recognition.    We are so proud and inspired by all of you every day in the community. We are grateful for your continued support and commitment to our shared mission and purpose, and we are excited about the future possibilities as we embark on the next phase of our journey together. For now, we invite you to join us, as we are taking this moment to celebrate you, and all the great work you do in Esri Community. Thank you and congrats!   ... View more

  It was another exciting year in Esri Community. Come along as we look back at 2021’s metrics and highlights.   2021 Metrics During 2021 we welcomed 64,900 new community members, which increased our total members to 260,000. Overall, new registrations were 26% higher when compared 2020. Esri Community averaged 50,500 member logins each month. Collectively members spent 5.7 million minutes online, which was an average of 40 minutes per member.  Customers submitted 2,008 new ideas across the ArcGIS Ideas Exchanges, and Esri Community received 8.3 million visits, with 64% coming from international visitors. When it comes to searching, 94% of searches resulted in successful searches.  For 2021, we had more than 18,000 new questions, with 39% marked as Accepted Solutions, and combined 64% answered by Esri staff and community MVPs, which account for 1.32% of the entire community members. We had 6,800 Accepted Solutions and 4.5 million views of Accepted Solutions.   How quickly did we respond to questions? We averaged 918 minutes to the first reply of a new question, which is under 24 hours per question.   At the individual place level, Top places for Accepted Solutions for all of 2021:  ArcGIS Pro (1188): 40%  ArcGIS Survey123 (816): 48%  ArcGIS API for JavaScript (441): 37%  ArcGIS Online (418): 29%  ArcGIS Enterprise (406): 36%    Quick tips:   Accepted Solutions are when the person who asked the question marks it as answered, here’s how to mark questions as accepted solutions.    You can also save time by searching questions with accepted solutions.   Great solutions start with asking great questions. Follow these instructions to generate the most helpful responses to your questions.    2021 Esri Community highlights  It was a momentous year for our Esri Community. We received industry recognition and successfully launched new programs and initiatives. We are proud to share these accomplishments with you.    Celebrated 1 year on new platform  Community industry awards:  Khoros' Rookie of the Year  Community Roundtable Awards: Outstanding Community Design Element  2021 Esri Community Contest winners  We congratulate all the winners and their contributions to the community throughout 2021. Check out the full blog post and share a shout to your fellow community members!   Esri Community Contest Winners   This wraps up our 2021 Year-End report. Again, I feel like I say it every year, but it was another truly remarkable year for our Esri Community, and we are excited about what lies ahead. We thank you always for your time and support in building relationships and adding value to Esri Community!  ... View more