The Leader Report: Building new connections

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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

• We’re partnering with Orbiit to curate 1:1 conversations with Community Leaders for monthly meetings. The goal of this program is for you to connect with your peers, share ideas and perspectives, and build a deeper connection within the community. Learn more here.

• 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: Come meet our Lead Product Designer and learn more about our Community users' needs and behaviors. We want to hear from you so RSVP below. This will be an interactive session with a unique opportunity to get 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 (Wed., Jul 20, 6:00 PM EDT): https://ace.atlassian.com/events/details/atlassian-community-leader-events-presents-community-archetypes-workshop-amer-session/

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

• Focus Group for Bevy’s New Co-Host Feature: Bevy has recently shipped a new feature that allows Community Leaders to co-host events with multiple chapters. In this session, we will demo Bevy’s new Co-Host feature and collect your feedback which will be provided directly to Bevy’s product team.

  • AMER/EMEA (Thu, July 21, 4:00 PM UTC / 6:00 PM CET 45 min.)

  • APAC (Fri, July 22, 3:30 AM UTC / 9:00 AM IST 45 min.)

• 🌟 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 love using. 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.

CAB Corner

• The Community Advisory Board met on July 7 and explored new event ideas, a new collaborative medium for community leaders, and discussed potential improvements to the way community members receive emails and more.

Leader Spotlights

• July 15th marked Jira Admin Appreciation Day, a time for us to recognize admins everywhere 💙 Here are some of the kind words our leaders had to share about Jira admins: 

• Dave Mathijs recently broke 400 accepted answers! Thank you Dave, for sharing your time and expertise with so many people.

• Congrats to Nikki Zavadska on uploading her first three Jira How-To videos! You can head over and watch them here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjrnY5RkPmsdyDF2yRQeTZS-fAHMjt6LH

Thank you all for your contributions, your enthusiasm, and for continuing to find innovative ways to surprise us.

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!

• University Helper badge is now live! Go get yours today! We anticipate opportunities to funnel your feedback to the university team via surveys, focus groups, or interviews.

New & Trending

• To prepare for Fail Tales, our speakers shared takeaways from how failure helped them become more resilient: Our Fail Tales Speakers share their top tips around failure, and how we can be better because of it RSVP for Fail Tales on Tuesday July 26 to hear their stories!

• Confluence Work and Wellness! Our series to celebrate collaboration and mindfulness at work has fun activities in store. Say hello in our kickoff discussion if you haven’t yet, and keep an eye out for our Clean up your Confluence Space play coming soon.

• 📣 ☁️ 📣   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! Our University team has published 6 special tips around agile - add a comment on how you’ve applied these in your professional life to receive something special.

• 🌲 Likes for Trees: the Atlassian Community is planting up to 30,000 trees in July! Read up on how to plant your 30 trees, boost your likes by sharing your favorite content on the community, and P.S. Leaders get unlimited Likes, so Like away!

• Marketplace Appy Hours: Each month, 4 Partners go head-to-head for the title of Best App Demo. Watch the June recap, RSVP for our July 28 Appy Hour, and sign up to demo in a future month.

Events Updates

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

• Rotterdam ACE Hybrid event: Cloud transformation for the masses

• Tampa Bay ACE: Atlassians takeover Magnanimous Brewing

• ACE Cologne: Confluence

• ACE Indianapolis: Moving to the Cloud

• ACE Effurun: Remote work series delivering quality work

• Tel Aviv ACE: Quarterly planning with Jira & Roadmaps

Until next time,

The Community Team

[Taranjeet Singh]

Thank you for sharing this Leader Report, @Isha !

[Jaime Netzer]

Thanks so much for including us, @Isha 💙 Really eager to see this crew's best tips on our build your agile mindset series — and to award you something special for them!

[Nikki Zavadska _Appfire_]

Thank you so much for the shout-out!

Loving the Admin appreciation quotes 💙