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Hello Google Workspace Community! We're deviating slightly from our regularly scheduled monthly Community Roundup series to take a look back at not just what happened in December, but everything we've accomplished together in 2022.
We're featuring top contributors, the most active conversations, popular events, learning challenge winners, and more. Let's dive in!
Google Workspace Community 2022 stats at-a-glance
- ๐ The Google Cloud Community welcomed 49,367 new members
- โฐ 4.3 million minutes were spent by members on the Community
- ๐จโ๐ป There were 510,513 visits to the Workspace Community
- โ๏ธ Members contributed 14,505 posts to the Workspace Community and gave 13,053 kudos
Top contributors
The Community would not be what it is without our invaluable members. We appreciate each and every person who visits and contributes - making it a friendly, helpful, and rewarding place to be.
Below are a few shoutouts to folks who go above and beyond. Share your appreciation with a comment below!
Workspace Q&A Forums
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Solution authors: @icrew @cryptochrome @Jan-Carlos @christiannewman @KAM
See the full leaderboard here
๐ Kudos (likes) received: @icrew @christiannewman @cryptochrome @StephenHind @Jan-Carlos
See the full leaderboard here
๐จโ๐ป Visits: @icrew @bill_pier3 @Jan-Carlos @StephenHind @KAM
๐ Kudos (likes) given: @KAM @bill_pier3 @kim_nilsson @stewypunk @JasonTM1
Honorable mentions and shoutouts:
@kim_nilsson @icrew @StephenHind @KAM have been a longstanding pillars of the Google Workspace Community, consistently showing up for other members, providing helpful and thoughtful responses, and going above and beyond with Community calls and speaking opps. Thank you for all you do!
Thank you @dominik @gemma_mcclure2 @christiannewman @simon-smart @andreas_berger1 and @stevelarsen for not only being an amazing help providing answers and advice in the Community, but also for your willingness to provide feedback and suggestions to make the Community and Google Workspace solutions even better.
Thank you @Penelope for consistently contributing to the forums and helping others with your responses!
Googlers
Here our top contributing Googlers! This is not including Community Managers (more on those folks is further below๐).
โ Solution authors: @Carolina-A @shoshb @goldyarora @carlinyuen @dibenedettoa1
๐ Kudos (likes) received: @dibenedettoa1@Dan_C@Carolina-A@serge_l@gbaffi
๐จโ๐ป Visits: @Carolina-A@dibenedettoa1@rmaupin@shoshb@ncurtiss
๐ Kudos (likes) given: @gbaffi @KarisaE @rmaupin @blaf @sshank
Honorable mentions and shoutouts:
Thank you @ncurtiss and @Lesleymustari for keeping us all up-to-date on the latest in the Google Workspace ecosystem with monthly Customer Newsletters and weekly product updates!
Thank you @nralexander @saralerner @cneale and @Donato for providing valuable content resources for Workspace Admins, including events, blog content, and much more. Thank you!
Thank you @goldyarora for going above and beyond to not only provide helpful responses in the forums, but deliver a consistent series of helpful and informative events for the Community. We always look forward to your next session! Oh - and did you know Goldy has his own blog? Check it out for Google Workspace expert tips, tutorials, FAQs, and more.
A BIG thank you to @serge_l for all you do to help users get the most out of Google Workspace solutions, leading trainings, roadmap sessions, and always taking the time to listen to feedback and answer questions. Thank you!
Thank you @Andrew_L and @cryland for leading roadmap sessions for our customers, keeping us all in the loop and listening to feedback to help make Workspace solutions even better.
Google Workspace Community Conversations
In 2022, there were 14,505 posts published to the Google Workspace Community. Wow! Let's break down what these were all about and highlight some of the most popular topics.
The most popular topic in the Workspace Q&A Forums in 2022 was Administration, followed by Drive, Gmail, Shared Drives, and APIs.
Breaking it down even further, here's a word cloud with some of the most popular topics from the Workspace Forums. The size of the word indicates how often it was discussed.
Google Workspace Community Events
We held 11 Google Workspace Community events in 2022 on topics ranging from Cloud Identity to Spaces and many more in between (see all our events on-demand here!)
Our most viewed events in 2022 were as follows:
- Preparing for your Professional Workspace Administrator Certification (watch here now) Thank you @nralexander!
- Earn the Professional Google Workspace Administrator Certification (watch here now) Thank you @cneale @saralerner!
- Google Workspace Admin 101 Resource Guide (watch here now) Thank you @nralexander!
- The Future of Google Currents and Migration to Spaces (watch here now) Thank you @kjindal
- Achieve more in a hybrid work world with customizable Google Workspace AI automations (watch here now) Thank you @Donato!
Is there a topic you want us to cover next? Please let us know by leaving a comment below. We'd love to hear from you!
Google Workspace Community Blogs
We published 14 Google Cloud Community blogs in 2022, including best practices, certification guides, tutorials, and much more (see all our blogs here!).
Our most viewed blogs in 2022 were as follows:
- Guide to Preparing for the Professional Google Workspace Administrator Certification Thank you @nralexander!
- Google Workspace Customer Newsletter: October 2022 Thank you @Lesleymustari!
- Your Google Workspace Admin 101 Resource Guide Thank you @nralexander!
- Change Management Methodology: The Journey to Long-Term Success with Google Workspace Thank you @gretchenreyes!
- Google Workspace Customer Newsletter: November 2022 Thank you @Lesleymustari!
Is there a topic you want us to cover next? Please let us know by leaving a comment below. We'd love to hear from you!
Thank you from the Google Cloud Community team
On behalf of the Google Cloud Community team, thank you to everyone who has made the Community such a rewarding place to be - members, visitors, customers, partners, Googlers... thank you all.
And we can't forget our Community Managers. Thank you @AndrewB @Willie_Turney @shanefeely @Roderick @Michelle and @kasey.
We couldn't do it without you!
We're looking forward to even more to come for the Google Workspace Community in 2023, including new ways for members to get involved, shiny new badges, improved user experiences, more live events and how-to blogs, and much more.
Have ideas or feedback? Please let us know in the comments or by creating a post in the feedback forum. We'd love to hear from you.
Thank you and happy new year!
