First Edition of Friday Five on LinkedIn

Happy Friday! It will be a weekend filled with March Madness for me. Here's to hoping my Badgers get to the Sweet 16...let's be honest...my bracket has them going all the way.

Stop spending your weekend scrolling Facebook. Here's all the links you'll need until next week!

1. CMX published their 2022 Community Industry Report. I've been participating in this survey and following this report for at least four years, and each year, the report impacts my strategy and work fairly significantly. On their splash page for the report, they list the five key takeaways from the report, and I'm not surprised at number 4.

In-person is making a comeback AND virtual is here to stay.

29% of communities hosted an in-person event in 2021, despite the surge of COVID-19. 90% of those who host events for their community report hosting virtual events in 2021. 72% of those plan to offer the same number or more virtual events in 2022. Almost 4 in 5 community professionals who haven’t hosted in-person hybrid events yet plan to do so when it is safe to gather.

2. Jethro Jones from the Transformative Principal held an awesome virtual meeting for his book launch. The attendees collectively wrote a book by responding to questions related to his new book. A lot of people learned a lot of things at this book launch. You can grab his new book here! And never miss an episode of his podcast. I was on this episode!

3. In January I enrolled in Harold Jarche's PKM course. His work makes tons of sense to me, and I continue to gain value from his regular blog posts. Recently he wrote, Strategic Doing Through Agile Sensemaking. In this post he explores the distinctions between institutions, communities, and networks. I've been doing a lot of thinking about this recently, and this post will inform a piece of my writing that currently resides in my head not on paper. I specifically loved this quote:

Our challenge today is find ways to connect institutions with their communities and to learn with and from global knowledge networks. The latter were critical in identifying the makeup of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Strategic Doing is an approach that can connect all three organizing forms — Organizations, Communities, Networks. It is based on learning by doing.

4. Alex Birket, co-founder of Be Omnicient, interviewed Ronnie Higgins on the Long Game podcast. I especially liked the way Ronnie discussed building an internal media company with versatility in content and medium. This significantly shifted how I will likely think about content going forward. Content is one of the three interdependencies in what I believe to be the future of professional learning, so it really is pondering me to think a lot.

5. After a client meeting this week, I decided it was time to create a graphic and write a blog post about how to know when your event needs a platform beyond Zoom. I love Zoom...but it is NOT an event platform.

That's it for this week. Be sure to subscribe to this LinkedIn Newsletter, so you get a reminder each week. I love sending people into their weekends with opportunities to learn. The endless scroll is tiring. Let me curate quality for you!

One last thing...

Modern Learners is kicking off the next cohort of Change.School and Reimagine Assessment on April 6. We'd love for you to join us if you're in the education space.

PS. My proofreading skills are less than stellar, and I do this writing in a time crunch, so please tolerate my typos and potential missing words. I promise I do the best I can.