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

As stated on the ideas home page, “Your feedback is important to us and we take it seriously. Product team members are subscribed to idea exchanges and labels so that they can keep a finger on the pulse of what you are requesting and build software and services that best meet your needs.” With that being said, I want to offer a few reminders from our Community Resources regarding the ideas program.

Starting now and continuing monthly through November, the Esri Community team is releasing a series of brand new, complex badges that members can earn by meeting unique combinations of criteria. Learn more in our update ...

We're adding two new achievable ranks to Esri Community! The first will be available to Regular Members and the second is exclusively earnable by members participating in Esri Community's MVP program. Read our update to learn more ...

Peter Knoop is a research consultant at the University of Michigan, where he and a small number of colleagues support the school’s roughly 10,000 registered ArcGIS system users. He’s there to help when questions come up about using the software. But with such a large group and more than 100+ Esri products any given user might be working with, he sometimes has to supplement his expertise by turning to Esri Community for insights. Read this Member Spotlight to learn how the resources in Esri Community provide Peter not just a place to find answers to questions, but also help him collaborate with other support staff in higher education to advance their shared product Idea priorities, and enable knowledge sharing in ways that lighten his workload.

We've made four Esri Community updates to improve users' experience, including the creation of brand new Browse Communities widget on the Home Page and adding a GIS Life tab to the platform's top navigation. Learn more in this update.

We've added the new GIS Life Place in Esri Community with Boards to support conversations relevant to GIS and aren't better served by other available forums. Learn more in this update.

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

The list of properties Johns Hopkins University owns has grown exponentially since it first opened in 1876. Keeping track of them all is no small task. Jonathan Dandois PhD, GISP is the GIS Manager for Facilities & Real Estate at the University. He manages the department's ArcGIS Enterprise products—the foundation that makes staying on top of construction, planning, and architecture related to all those properties possible. As with any complex task or tools, challenges arise that may not be easily solved alone. Without on-site GIS peers to collaborate with in such moments, Jonathan often turns to his virtual group of peers in Esri Community for help. In this article, learn why Jonathan thinks of Esri Community as the perfect middle ground between product documentation and Technical Support, and why he spends time investing his own expertise back into the Community ... 

As of April 18, 2023, the Community Basics Place in Esri Community will be renamed Community Resources. Learn more in this update.