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We've crossed the finish line in our 2023 annual Esri Community Contest! Meet the nine winners who stood out among their peers to earn top spots in each of the three categories of competition: Elite Level, Rising Star, and Newcomer of the Year ... 

Meet Mervyn Lotter, a Biodiversity Planner and GIS Manager for the Mpumalanga Tourism & Parks Agency in South Africa. There, Mervyn leverages GIS to protect and conserve local biodiversity that includes over 600 species that are either threatened or of conservation concern. This work comes at a time when the stability of worldwide biodiversity is increasingly fragile, making the need for strong preservation measures paramount. In this article, Mervyn discusses how Esri Community has long provided him with an important source of support and the values that drive him to contribute help back to other members. Learn more …

Esri Community's MVP program has been updated to include new roles and criteria. Learn more in our article ...

This micro-sized guide demonstrates how to find and use the 'My Subscriptions' feature to unsubscribe from Esri Community Posts, Boards, or Places you no longer wish to receive notifications about.

Beginning December 14th, 2023, Esri Community will feature a Share Tool that allows permissioned members to easily duplicate posts across other Boards. Learn more in our update ...

Meet Ellie Hakari, a GIS Analyst III who followed a non-traditional path to her role at the State of Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities. There, she works to protect the integrity of Alaska’s roads and airport pavement by monitoring their condition and evaluating threats—like those from typhoons, earthquakes, and other natural disasters and the impacts of climate change. Learn more …

This micro-sized guide demonstrates how to see which Esri Community badges you've earned, which ones remain to be collected, and what the criteria is to achieve them.

We've released the fifth and final badge in our 2023 series of brand new, complex badges. There's something different about this one though: It's a secret! Learn which details we're letting slip and about the one member in all of Esri Community who has earned it so far ...

See Esri Community's quarterly update detailing what members have helped accomplish while finding solutions, sharing ideas, and collaborating to solve problems through the use of GIS.

This micro-sized guide demonstrates how to report posts that don't belong in Esri Community and explains why helping get prohibited content removed benefits everyone.