How to Navigate through Esri YPN Community
Esri Community is a platform for Esri users around the globe to ask questions, share ideas, collaborate, read the latest blogs, learn about upcoming events, and so much more!
YPN has an active space on Esri Community space containing 5 boards. Subscribe to any or all of these boards:
- Esri YPN Questions
- Esri YPN Videos
- Esri YPN Documents
- Esri YPN Blog
- Esri YPN Events
Ask a Question
In the Esri YPN Questions board, take the opportunity to ask the community a question. Questions can be on specific GIS training, professional development opportunities, career advice, or anything relevant to professionals young in their geospatial career.
Someone from the community will respond to your question where you're able to mark it as "answered".
Watch the Latest Videos
The videos board contains videos specifically for young professionals. You can comment, give a kudos, and share videos and even suggest videos to the Esri YPN Team.
Access Documents
The Esri YPN Documents tab is meant to house important, downloadable documents such as event flyers. This space is currently being assessed by the Esri YPN Team on how to better leverage this board so that it brings value to young pros.
Read Blogs Written by the YPN Team
Read the latest blog post on the Esri YPN Blog. The Esri YPN Team writes and publish monthly content intended to be a valuable resource to young pros in their geospatial career path and professional development.
We are excited to announce that we will be partnering with URISA to contribute monthly blog posts.
Be sure to subscribe to the board to get alerts when a new blog is published.
Some of our most viewed blog posts in 2022 are:
- Stand Out To Potential Employers By Creating Your Resume, Portfolio, or Bio Using ArcGIS StoryMaps
- 5 Trends in GIS and How to Successfully Navigate Them
- What Young Pros can expect at Esri User Conference (UC) 2022
- Ways to Build your Professional Network
Learn about YPN Related Events
In the Esri YPN Events board, you can view upcoming event relevant to young professionals in GIS careers. You can select that you are attending an event or comment on the event. You are able to send an invite to someone else within the event.
How to get the most out of Esri Community
- Subscribe to boards you're most interested in getting updates from
- Comment on blog posts
- Earn badges in the community by engaging in various ways (i.e., comment, share, give a kudos, ask questions)
- Ask meaningful questions
- Contribute to an idea
- Find others to collaborate with