Remote Working and GIS Day 2023. Ideas?

Jeremy_Z

So I work remotely from home and go into an office once a week. It's just a local branch with very few folks there that do the same thing.

I used to do some bigger GIS Day functions and trainings, Intro to GIS, TIPS & Tricks or Here's What's Ahead sessions for my end users when I was in the office. Now in my new role everyone is spread out around the country and I'm trying to figure out the best way to still do something for GIS Day with a group that KNOWS GIS.

Any suggestions?

I was thinking a Teams call for folks to do a "Bring Something Cool" session to show off something GIS related they've worked on, need help on, or have seen around. We did this during covid a bit as a Mappy Hour after work visit to show off mapping related things we have.

For example for this section, my wife crocheted me a globe of Earth and I showed it off, along with some cool maps and books I've purchased. Some antique compasses and other things. A friend of mine showed off her collection of globes. Then we got into cool arcade scripts and other things we had found and used in the previous year.

jfiacco

In 2021, we hosted a virtual event for everyone in our organization. Our group is very diverse in terms of GIS knowledge so we kept it pretty simple but perhaps you could do something along these same lines. I created a public Hub site with lots of basic GIS information and activities for them to participate in even though it was a virtual event. We included Survey123 based trivia where all answers could be found within the Hub site. This encouraged everyone to actually read through the site and sparked some friendly competition. Everyone seemed to enjoy it! Here's the Hub site for reference: PWSD GIS Day Hub 2021 (arcgis.com).