{"id":2306342,"date":"2024-04-17T15:58:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T22:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=2306342"},"modified":"2024-05-07T09:58:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T16:58:14","slug":"a-hub-for-collaboration-and-engagement","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-hub\/constituent-engagement\/a-hub-for-collaboration-and-engagement","title":{"rendered":"A Hub for Collaboration and Engagement"},"author":308072,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[37131],"tags":[27201,32631,767882,773832],"industry":[],"product":[36811],"class_list":["post-2306342","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constituent-engagement","tag-collaboration","tag-community-engagement","tag-outreach","tag-stakeholders","product-arcgis-hub"],"acf":{"authors":[{"ID":308072,"user_firstname":"Nick","user_lastname":"O'Day","nickname":"Nick O'Day","user_nicename":"noday","display_name":"Nick O'Day","user_email":"noday@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2022-04-12 16:31:08","user_description":"Nick O\u2019Day is a Senior Consultant and Commercial team lead within Esri Professional Services helping organizations use ArcGIS in strategic ways. He serves as a Project Manager, Advantage Program advisor, and geospatial strategist partnering with enterprise clients to align geospatial technology, data, and corporate initiatives to deliver measurable business outcomes. He brings over 20 years of experience leading cross\u2011functional teams across industry and technology to apply GIS at scale. When Nick isn't GIS'ing, he's usually gardening, eating, or exploring something new in sunny Los Angeles.","user_avatar":""},{"ID":5491,"user_firstname":"Maria","user_lastname":"Jordan","nickname":"Maria Jordan","user_nicename":"mariajordan","display_name":"Maria Jordan","user_email":"mjordan@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:17:11","user_description":"Maria Jordan is a senior product marketer at Esri specializing in ArcGIS products and apps designed to improve community engagement, communication, collaboration, and data sharing. She has been at Esri for 20+ years in a variety of marketing roles and is focused on creating practical resources that convey best practices and customer successes to help organizations achieve their goals.","user_avatar":""}],"short_description":"Hubs provide a virtual place for collaboration and engagement to happen within communities of all types and sizes.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Engagement Matters – Part 1<\/i><\/h3>\n

This article is the first part of a four part series on collaboration and engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Part 1<\/a><\/h4>\n
A Hub for
\nCollaboration
\n& Engagement<\/a><\/i><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n

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Part 2<\/a><\/h4>\n
Empowering
\nCommunities
\nwith Open Data<\/a><\/i><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n

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Part 3<\/a><\/h4>\n
Sustaining
\nCollaboration
\nwith Trust<\/a><\/i><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n

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Part 4<\/a><\/h4>\n
Building
\nLocal
\nResilience<\/a><\/i><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Click on any of the articles above to jump forward or backward<\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Engagement is the science of connecting with a community of people that need to know about a challenge and have their voices heard. \u00a0Is your city starting a major pothole repair initiative and you need feedback from residents about what areas should be prioritized?\u00a0 Perhaps you lead a group of volunteers that monitor endangered species and you need to coordinate their efforts and show their impact.\u00a0 Or maybe you\u2019re trying to collaborate with staff within your organization around GIS initiatives to share knowledge and technical resources.\u00a0 Regardless of your use case, and however you define what your community is, collaboration and engagement are keys to your success.<\/p>\n

Common communities<\/h3>\n

Effective collaboration and engagement starts with clear initiatives \u2013 or large projects \u2013 and they always involve stakeholders.\u00a0 What varies from initiative to initiative are the number of different stakeholder communities that your initiative affects.\u00a0 If you have a pothole repair initiative, you might envision your stakeholder communities including city leaders and residents.\u00a0 That\u2019s a good start, but you should also consider:<\/p>\n