You’ve heard it before – many times in fact – that community engagement is important. But what does that actually mean? What is “engagement?” Who should I be engaging? Do I have a “community?” How do I collaborate with these communities that I might have? If any of these questions resonate with you, Esri has a new podcast that will help.
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(Listen on any of these platforms: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, PlayerFM, Podbean)
A podcast?
Esri has great technical documentation on how to use GIS technology to do things: analyze data, make maps, build experiences, tell stories, and bring all of this together into Hubs. The Engagement Matters podcast will help guide you in the practical implementation of these things. Each episode, we’ll hear experts from a variety of fields talk about their engagement and collaboration efforts while they also share their engagement tips and tricks.
…and a companion blog!
We’ll also have a companion blog post for each episode which will summarize the conversation and help you reference specific nuggets of wisdom in the future (after you’ve listened to the audio of course). It’ll also be helpful for those of you that need to share an episode with a colleague or for people that learn better by reading than listening.
Why you should subscribe
Most of us work in roles where we have to derive meaning from data. Maybe that takes the form of a hotspot map that shows areas across a city where issues are concentrated. Maybe it’s a graph that shows trends over time. No matter what kind of work that you do, there’s a good chance that it requires input from other people. Engagement is a two-way conversation between you and the groups of stakeholders that you collaborate with. Coworkers, customers, constituents, or anyone else that might be impacted by the work that you do can be your “community.” Many of us have more than one community that we interact with. Regardless of how you define your community, making positive change in the world is directly tied to how effectively you can communicate and collaborate with these groups. You’re probably already doing some kind of engagement, but just don’t realize it. The guests on Engagement Matters will share relatable and real examples of projects they’ve worked on, things they’ve done to collaborate with people, and ways that they continually engage their communities over time.
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