2023 Esri Staff Engagement Appreciation

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JesseCloutier
Esri Community Manager
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“You can always share. I bet you anything you’re going to change someone’s life
because many people in Esri Community changed mine.”

Ellie Hakari on the impact of engaging in Esri Community

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Join us in toasting the thousands of remarkable Esri team members who invested their time and expertise in Esri Community during 2023!

Though Esri Community is primarily designed for customers to collaborate, resolve questions, and solve GIS challenges with each other, Esri’s own staff and distributors play a major role in the important achievements that take place here every day. In fact, Esri team members supplied 43% of all confirmed 5,926 answers to member questions in the last year. For perspective on the outsized degree of these contributions, fewer than 1.5% of Esri Community’s 365,039 total active accounts belong to Esri Community team members.

Beyond answering questions, these champions of Community take the opportunities found in this platform and transform them into win-win outcomes. They lead with curiosity, diving into the shared experiences of Esri users for clues that inform better products and support. They link customers' perspective to innovation by reviewing feature requests in Ideas Exchanges and use them to enrich Esri products’ capabilities. They’re educators who speak one-to-many while producing blog articles, documentation, and videos that provide valuable supplement to official Help Documentation and Esri Technical Support. … In short, these incredible individuals demonstrate what it means to think and act as part of a prosperous community.

 

Leading Esri Staff Contributors

 

This year, we’re providing special recognition to groups of five Esri team members who contributed the greatest number of posts across three highly impactful categories:

Accepted Solutions: Accepted Solutions are answers supplied to members’ questions that have been confirmed as having resolved the question. 

Blogs Authored: Blog articles play an important function in Esri Community by supplying readers with relevant news like product release details, event information, Esri user stories, or detailed use-cases.

Replies on Ideas: Ideas Exchanges are hubs for Esri users to share feature requests and Esri staff may engage with those requests to enhance their use case understanding, to connect users with existing solutions, or to exchange other valuable insights.

Accepted Solutions Blogs Authored Replies on Ideas
@ZacharySutherby (80) @BernSzukalski (66) @KoryKramer (208)
@IsmaelChivite (64) @JRosalesGIS (43) @JonathanNeal (55)
@Robert_LeClair (62) @JosephKerski (27) @RussRoberts  (53)
@MarceloMarques (52) @MarceloMarques (23) @MarceloMarques (52)
@RobertKrisher (50) @TomBaker (23) @SSWoodward (51)



The 100 Club

 

We’d like to highlight an additional list of other Esri staff who, through dedicated involvement, reached an exceptional level of participation we’re referring to as The 100 Club: those who published a minimum of 100 posts OR received 100 kudos in the last year.

@A_Wyn_Jones @AdamCarnow @AlixVezina @AmirBar-Maor
@AndreasHall @AndrewSakowicz @AubriKinghorn @AyanPalit
@BrianBaldwin @CaitlynNorth @ChrisUnderwood @David_McRitchie 
@DerekLaw @GeoJosh @GeorgeThompson @GKmieliauskas
@JakeSkinner @JenniferAcunto @Jianxia @KellyHutchins
@MelindaMorang @MikeMillerGIS  @OwenGeo @ReneRubalcava
@Richard_Purkis @TanuHoque @TonghuiMing @UndralBatsukh 
@Wolf      

 

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As much as our Esri Community team would love to fully account for the quality of Esri staff contributions alongside these quantitative recognitions, we’re forced to acknowledge such a feat as beyond our abilities. From the examples we witness every day, however, we're eager to express how humbled we’re regularly left by the work of our intelligent, caring, and generous colleagues. Again, THANK YOU to everyone who makes this online gathering place such an incredible resource for Esri users!

13 Comments
BrianBaldwin
Esri Regular Contributor

Thanks for putting this together @JesseCloutier - big shout-out to all of those monitoring/helping on the Ideas pages - I think this is a hugely valuable effort!

JesseCloutier
Esri Community Manager

You're more than welcome, @BrianBaldwin. Our whole team is consistently amazed by the rich contributions you and our other colleagues bring to Esri Community!

MarceloMarques
Esri Regular Contributor

@JesseCloutier - Thanks. I am glad to have contributed and assisted our customers to be successful in using our products. 🙂

SSWoodward
Esri Contributor

@JesseCloutier This is so great! Thank you for putting this together.  

I'd like to also give a big thanks and mention to the Geodatabase Ideas Curation Team @JonathanMurphy , @ElaineEvans, and @NanaDei 

JesseCloutier
Esri Community Manager

@MarceloMarques it isn't specifically called out in the article above, but we were especially impressed to find that you held the unique distinction of earning a top spot in each of our three leading engagement categories. Way to go!

JesseCloutier
Esri Community Manager

We love that you're expanding on the gratitude, @SSWoodward! Everyone should feel encouraged to tag other team members with messages of appreciation for the incredible work they've done on behalf of Esri users in this platform in 2023. Much appreciation for leading the charge on that!

GuyNoll
Esri Contributor

Well done, @MarceloMarques in having such a high impact across our customers!

abureaux
MVP Regular Contributor

A big Thank You to all the wonderful Esri staff!

AdamCarnow
Esri Regular Contributor

Thanks for the shout out! Great to see so many active contributors to the Community. Let's see these lists grow in 2024!

JesseCloutier
Esri Community Manager

Hear, hear, @AdamCarnow! Thanks for exampling what it means to be an outstanding contributor!

JosephKerski
Esri Notable Contributor

Thank you so much @JesseCloutier  !  'Tis a great honor to be included with so many folks that I admire at Esri and to work closely with the education community across the world is a true privilege.   --Joseph K 

JesseCloutier
Esri Community Manager

The honor and admiration are mutually felt, @JosephKerski. Thanks for all you do inside and outside of Esri Community!

JesseCloutier
Esri Community Manager

UPDATE: @GKmieliauskas has been added to our 100 Club list for having far exceeded the criteria for posts published in 2023! His account was missed during our initial review of the data and we're honored to now recognize him alongside our other Esri Community Staff Champions named in this article.

About the Author
I'm a Community Manager focused on Engagement & Content here at Esri. My guiding ethos is that community — people coming together around shared purpose, demonstrating collective support, and collaborating in mutually beneficial ways — is the most powerful source for progress in the world. I'm at your service as we make great things happen through GIS.