✨ The Leader Report: Altruism meets empowerment ✨

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Greetings, Leaders!

Happy July! We hope this message finds you well.

Please enjoy the latest edition of The Leader Report for 2022 — if you’re new, think of this as a highlight reel of the latest & greatest from Atlassian Community. 

Leader Program Updates

• Let’s welcome our newest Community Leaders

• Need help boosting interest in your ACE events? Check out the Social Media toolkit for some helpful event promotion tips.

• Community Archetypes Workshop: Don't miss the opportunity to pull back the curtain to uncover insights on users that visit Community! This will be an interactive session with a unique opportunity to gain face time with Community’s Lead Product Designer and share feedback. Sessions will be offered in all 3 regions so pick the time that works best for you.

  • EMEA (Tue, Jul 19, 6:00 PM (CEST):https://ace.atlassian.com/events/details/atlassian-community-leader-events-presents-community-archetypes-workshop-emea-session/

  • AMER (Tue, Jul 19, 6:00 PM (EDT): https://ace.atlassian.com/events/details/atlassian-community-leader-events-presents-community-archetypes-workshop-amer-session/

  • APAC (Thu, Jul 21, 9:00 AM IST): https://ace.atlassian.com/events/details/atlassian-community-leader-events-presents-community-archetypes-workshop-apac-session/

• 🌟 Office hours: Community Managers just launched a monthly event planning session where we address your questions on the ACE event planning process. Two heads are better than one which is why we welcome your feedback, demos, and any other helpful resources you tap into. RSVP for the July 27th office hour session.

• 🌟 Introducing the Community Photo Kit! Are you ready to capture click-worthy moments at your next in-person event? Don’t miss out on this amazing opportunity, request your photo kit today by raising a ticket: https://communityleaders.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/1/create/92.

• If you refer three people to the Leader program and they submit an application, we’ll give you a $25 gift card. Read all of the details here.

• ☕ Our monthly Coffee Chats are a great way to meet your fellow Leaders, ask questions, share your interests on our CC topics board, and stay in sync with your Community Manager in an informal setting. RSVP for the July 13th AMER/EMEA session: https://ace.atlassian.com/events/details/atlassian-community-leader-events-presents-coffee-chats-with-isha-6/

Leader Spotlights

• Developer by day, DJ by night. Michael Kimathi is a man of many talents. Learn how he empowers his community while delivering a world-class experience for ACE attendees. https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Teamwork-Lab-articles/How-Community-Leader-Michael-Kimathi-creatively-empowers-his/ba-p/2052404

• PM72 Summit (June 13 - 16): Our Leaders showed up in full force at the 3-day project management conference and presented on a number of buzz-worthy topics. Here’s a playlist of the videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjrnY5RkPmscFdU9e1MbU0entjtRzw6Oj

  • Brittany Joiner: A Project Manager’s Guide to Trello

  • Nikola Zavadska- How to Prioritize your Projects

  • Jimmy Seddon- Managing Jira Projects Certification: Why You Should Care & How to Prepare

  • Matthias Gaiser- Cross-Company Collaboration in Jira - how to make it work for everyone

• We’re sourcing our next wave of #JiraHeroes! Get inspired by featured Jira Heroes and nominate yourself or your Jira Admin to be featured: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Cloud-Admins-articles/Calling-all-Jira-Admins-Be-featured-as-one-of-our-JiraHeroes/ba-p/2071153

Feedback Opportunities

• Want to get involved in the alpha group to help design our new community platform on Khoros Aurora? Reach out to Monique on Slack or at mvandenberg@atlassian.com, there are a few spots left!

• MS Teams & JSM just got a little closer with the new integration. Come test it out by joining the Early Access Program: Collaborate and manage incidents with Microsoft Teams.

• Want to participate in PAID Atlassian research? Do you use Jira Software and/or Confluence? Read more here.

• University Helper badge is now live! Go get yours today!

New & Trending

• Save the date for Fail Tales on July 26, an informal storytelling event where we will hear from 3 brave speakers to celebrate failure and what it's taught us. See who's speaking and RSVP for the event: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Teamwork-Lab-articles/Fail-Tales-a-storytelling-event-in-celebration-of-failure/ba-p/2051087

• Confluence Work and Wellness! We're kicking off a 3-month series geared toward creating a culture of collaboration and mindfulness at work that prioritizes your wellbeing. Say hello in our kickoff discussion and keep an eye out for fun activities each month to earn our special Work + Wellness badge!

• Calling all Confluence migrators! Wanted to share a new FREE Atlassian University course with you: Confluence Cloud Quickstart Course (say that 5 times fast). More info here!

• Beginner’s Guide to Agile in Jira series! A big thank-you to everyone who helped test our new University training course, Beginner’s Guide to Agile in Jira. Our University team has 6 special tips around agile - read the first 3 tips, keep an eye out for the final 3 this week, and comment on each with how you’ve put these tips into practice in your professional life. We’ll be awarding something special to our most engaged users!

• :tree4: Likes for Trees: the Atlassian Community is planting up to 30,000 trees over the next 30 days! Read up on how to plant your 30 trees and vote for where to plant them here.

Events Updates

Check out our ACE event calendar to discover upcoming events popping up around the globe.

• Madrid: https://ace.atlassian.com/events/details/atlassian-madrid-presents-reunion-periodica-de-la-comunidad-atlassian-de-madrid/

• Multi-city APAC Event (Indian ACEs & Singapore unite): Digging deeper into agile devops and reporting with Atlassian partners

• Rhein-Main ACE: https://ace.atlassian.com/events/details/atlassian-rhein-main-presents-erfolgreich-suchen-in-confluence/

• Warri ACE: https://ace.atlassian.com/events/details/atlassian-warri-presents-career-growth-and-remote-work/

Until next time,

The Community Team

[Jimmy Seddon]

Great summary @Isha!  Thank you for sharing!