On this month’s call, we invited the Organizational Mycology team to facilitate an Oblique Thinking Hour activity for CSCCE community members. Beth Duckles and Dan Sholler led us through a … Continue reading “March Community Call Recap – Exploring new solutions to old problems, obliquely!”
This month our community call focused on the accessibility of community resources and programming – emphasizing practical actions we can all take to support the participation of members with disabilities. … Continue reading “February Community Call Recap – Creating accessible community spaces online”
For our first community call of 2023, we wanted to continue our tradition of periodic updates about what’s happening at CSCCE. In these updates, we draw back the curtain and … Continue reading “January, 2023 Community Call Recap: CSCCE’s plans for the next year”
Here at CSCCE, we relish opportunities to learn from each other. So, for our annual potlucks, we ask everyone to bring knowledge instead of food! This year, we asked participants … Continue reading “December, 2022 Community Call Recap: A Feast of Tech Tools”
For our November call, the theme was working with volunteers. Yanina Bellini Saibene (rOpenSci) moderated a discussion between Saranjeet Kaur (RSE Asia Association) and Melissa Mendonça (NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, and … Continue reading “November’s community call recap: Community managers share their strategies for engaging volunteers”
Last week, we hosted two back-to-back (virtual) reunion celebration events, bringing together graduates from our foundational online training course, Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF). It’s two years since we launched … Continue reading “CEF Reunion Recap: Graduates from 10 cohorts convened to celebrate 2 years of CEF!”
This month’s community call was part of an ongoing series focusing on the role of community, and the community manager, in STEM. These conversations flowed from the 25 Community Manager … Continue reading “October’s community call recap: STEM leaders share their definitions of successful community management”
This year we’ve been releasing community manager case studies: two-page interviews, each describing one of 25 community managers from across the STEM ecosystem. On this month’s community call, we shared … Continue reading “August’s community call recap: Reflecting on the role of the community manager in STEM”
In the second of our Summer 2022 community tools trials, CSCCE staff members Adrienne and Katie and several members of our community of practice met to “Escape the Island” in … Continue reading “CSCCE Community Tools Trial Recap: Virtual escape rooms in Gather”
CSCCE tools trials resumed for a short run of three sessions on Wednesday, 13 July 2022. A combination of CSCCE staff and community of practice members spent 60 minutes trying … Continue reading “CSCCE Community Tools Trial Recap: A “Butter” way to Zoom?”