Latest Contributions by MichelleMathias

    What is an Esri Community MVP? MVP stands for Most Valuable Participant, and is awarded to members who have demonstrated exceptional technical expertise, leadership, and a commitment to sharing their knowledge and helping others. An Esri Community MVP is a Community member who is an elite and valued contributor of the Community. They are an Esri user, customer or partner. They are not Esri staff or distributors; those audiences are referred to as Community Champions. They are highly active and consistently contributing high-value content by answering questions, posting blogs, sharing their workflows and helping the Community team advance the community vision and strategy.     MVP Guidelines Esri Community MVPs must have the following characteristics:   Accountability. MVPs are fully responsible and liable for anything they say (whether orally or in writing) or do. This includes any actions taken based on advice or information received in online forums or elsewhere, how an MVP conducts themselves as a Community leader, and interactions with other MVPs and the general public. Authenticity: MVPs should ensure that any information shared in Esri Community reflects their own expertise and insights. While AI tools can assist in generating ideas or providing information, responses should be personalized and contextualized based on the MVP's knowledge and experience.   MVP Roles    MVP I Active MVP member who meets the current criteria and makes continuous valuable contributions.     MVP Alum ​I Former MVP member who continues to participate in Esri Community outside of MVP criteria, but is recognized for their historic contributions.​    MVP Emeritus​ I Honorary title earned by an MVP member who has retired from their longstanding contributions, and is recognized for their outstanding impact.     What are the benefits of being an MVP? MVPs will be invited into a private and exclusive MVP User Group in the Community. Within the Group and through other MVP channels facilitated by the Community team they will: Receive regular updates from the Community team Invited to quarterly meetings, where they will receive Community updates and access to Esri staff as guest speakers, etc.  Invited to exclusive MVP in-person get together/meetups at User Conference (and other conferences as applicable) Receive sneak peeks at upcoming changes to Esri Community and help influence future Community strategy Contribute feedback and involvement in different Community initiatives Advanced moderation and member permissions Opportunities to provide usability testing and technical feedback on the Community development  Recognition and honorable mentions at Esri User Conference Eligible to compete at the Elite level of the Esri Community contest   How to Become an MVP Invited to join by the Community team Referral from an Esri Community member (Referral Form) All requests, recommendations and referrals to become an MVP will be vetted by the Community Team prior to approval.    Criteria to Maintain MVP Status On an annual basis:  Complete and upkeep Community profiles (bio and location – minimum of state/country)​  Subscribe, follow, and participate in the Community MVP Group​  Provide feedback to the Community Team on future developments, strategy, and content​  Engagement with the Community Team, either through MVP Group, in-person events, or MVP virtual meetings, member spotlights, moderation​ Add valuable contributions in the Community (for the calendar year) at a minimum:​ 20 replies authored AND at least​ 20 solutions authored, OR 30 kudos received​ ​*all criteria is assessed at CM discretion   Important Note: The above summary of expectation applies to all MVPs and is for informational purposes. The Esri Community team reserves the right to amend or change the MVP guidelines and requirements at any time, without notice. MVPs agree to periodically review this document to ensure they follow the obligations.   Meet a Few of Our Amazing MVPs     ... View more

Esri Community - December release notes The latest release of bug fixes and enhancements was updated to our live site on December 14 th . Here is a summary of the changes released: New Feature: Added subscriber count for all boards -  to learn more about this new feature: Esri Community Subscriber Feature  New Feature: Added subscriber export feature for select permissioned users (place managers, ideas managers, moderators) – read about this new feature in the above link) Ideas Exchanges Kudos Leaderboards – improved filter options (by labels and status). ArcGIS Ideas Page- improved recent Ideas component to include more results and added sort/filter options Various styling fixes on desktop and mobile Also, fixed over the weekend was formatting for the migrated code snippets (in posts from the old platform). Should you see any new issues or potential regression issues please let us know in the usual channels.  Thank You! ... View more

New Feature: Subscriber counts and exports added to boards This is a feature that I know our place managers, group owners and ideas managers have been asking for, so I am excited to report it was implemented in our latest release this morning. Locating subscriber counts There are two places where the new subscriber count will appear:   On the board page (question, ideas, docs, blog, events boards etc.) All users will see a box in the right rail, under the subscribe button that indicates the number of subscribers.      2. All users will also see the subscriber count on tiles on the place overview page and when viewing the tiles form other boards. The subscriber number will be indicated by a people+ icon to the left of the views and comments counter. Exporting Subscriber Usernames  For Place Managers, Ideas Managers, and Group Owners only: Export CSV list of Subscribers If you fall into one of the permission groups noted above, you will also see an export CSV button next to the subscriber count in the right rail of the board page.   This export will provide you with a list of usernames for the community members who have subscribed to the board.   With this list of usernames, you can then send a broadcast private message to the users, following these steps: Add a comma after each username Copy the list of usernames Open a private message Select send as a broadcast message Paste in the list of usernames Add your message to the body note: if someone subscribed, unsubscribed and re-subscribed, they may show in the list multiple times, you may need to remove any duplicates By using a broadcast message, it sends it individually instead of everyone at one time so there is no worry of members seeing each other’s names or avoid any rely-all messages.   ... View more

Hi Everyone, Just a quick update that community notifications will temporarily be disabled while we run a job to fix migrated code snippets. This job will run over the weekend and to in an effort to prevent a abundance of unnecessary notifications flooding everyone's feeds, we will be turning notifications off while this job runs.    We will have notifications turned back on once the job has completed, which is expected by Sunday, 12/12.   Thank you for your patience!  ... View more