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We’ve come a long way and have reached a number of milestones since we relaunched the Google Cloud Community in June 2021, and now, reaching more than 100,000 members.
In this post, we want to recognize our amazing Community members and all that you’ve done to make it a helpful, rewarding, welcoming, and valuable place to be.
- Google Workspace Community 2023 top contributors (so far)
- Most popular Google Workspace Community content and conversations
- Where we’re going
- Thank you from the Google Cloud Community team
Google Workspace Community 2023 top contributors (so far)
Let’s celebrate some of your achievements and the Community members who go above and beyond.
Below are some of our top contributors and engaged members so far in 2023. As a reminder, you can always check out the leaderboards by day, week, month, year, or all-time with these links:
As you take a look at the list below, we want to know - did we forget to mention someone who has helped you in the Community? Please let us know in the comments!
Workspace Q&A
✅ Solution authors: @ajojose33333344 @cryptochrome @icrew @newman @KAM @bill_pier3 @christiannewman @JasonTM1 @kim_nilsson @StephenHind
✍️ Posts/comments: @ajojose33333344 @icrew @KAM @cryptochrome @newman @JasonTM1 @christiannewman @bill_pier3 @kim_nilsson @StephenHind
👍 Kudos (likes) received: @ajojose33333344 @icrew @cryptochrome @christiannewman @bill_pier3 @KAM @newman @StephenHind @kim_nilsson @JasonTM1
👨💻 Visits: @ajojose33333344 @bill_pier3 @icrew @newman @JasonTM1 @KAM @K_87 @Jonathan7 @cryptochrome @davidmalika
👍 Kudos (likes) given: @ajojose33333344 @KAM @JasonTM1 @kim_nilsson @Zechariah_James @delafield @Demir_Aydemir @bill_pier3 @Mikey @colly72
Honorable mentions and shoutouts
Thank you @christiannewman for going above and beyond in the Community - providing answers, encouragement, thanks, and feedback to help all members grow with Workspace - and showing up in the broader Google Workspace ecosystem as a promoter, wealth of knowledge, and overall evangelist. Thank you for all you do!
@ajojose33333344 Even in a short time, you've helped answer so many questions across all Workspace topics. Thank you! Your impact is evident from the top contributors lists above.
@icrew @KAM @StephenHind from the inception of the Community, you've been trusted members, sharing not only your knowledge and expertise with others, but feedback to help make the Community better. We deeply value what you have to say and thank you for all you do.
@cryptochrome @bill_pier3 wow! just look at how many answers and responses you've provided. The number of likes you've received speak for themselves. Thank you!
Thank you @fuchsa @Karimmc2 @GV and @Marisa for sharing your amazing stories using Google Workspace and AppSheet solutions in our Google Workspace User Love Playlist!
Googlers
Here are our top contributing Googlers! This is not including Community Managers.
✅ Solution authors: @emreknlk @Carolina-A @fopitz @KarisaE @kgreller @Marcin_Milewski
✍️ Posts/comments: @kgreller @emreknlk @KarisaE @Marcin_Milewski @goldyarora @jessicapelegio @Carolina-A @hodag @NicoGa @fopitz
👍 Kudos (likes) received: @kgreller @KarisaE @emreknlk @Marcin_Milewski @jessicapelegio @hodag @goldyarora @NicoGa @fopitz @meden1
👨💻 Visits: @emreknlk @KarisaE @kgreller @bridgetcohen @Carolina-A @vinnypasceri @hodag @fopitz @deekshasrv @Marcin_Milewski
👍 Kudos (likes) given: @KarisaE @Marcin_Milewski @bridgetcohen @Carolina-A @fopitz @jessicapelegio @rickyho2828 @deekshasrv @kgreller
Honorable mentions and shoutouts
@tapiamario thank you for your contributions to the Workspace Developer community!
@rmaupin @hidyjun @gbaffi thank you for being leaders in Customer Connect and continually sharing valuable Workspace tips and tricks with the broader Google Workspace Community!
@KarisaE @ncurtiss @nralexander @saralerner @Lesleymustari thank you for all you do - going above and beyond sharing tips, product updates, learning resources, live events, and much more - all geared towards equipping and supporting our Workspace Community members.
@cryland @serge_l Thank you for providing our customers with the latest product information, particularly with roadmap webinars, and for always being so kind, welcoming, and collaborative.
Most popular Google Workspace Community content and conversations
Now we know who our top contributors were, let’s dive in a little deeper into what we were all talking about! What are our most popular topics so far in 2023? Events? Blogs? Let’s see…
Workspace Forums
The most popular topics by labels used so far in 2023 are:
Google Workspace Community Events
We’ve held several Google Workspace Community events in 2023 so far (see all our past and upcoming events here), including the following:
- Google Currents Migration to Spaces in Google Chat (see the event recap blog post here) Thank you @Jaxo123
- Get Enterprise Ready with Google Meet (see the event recap blog post here) Thank you @nralexander
- Google Workspace Developer Summits Thank you @CharlesMaxson!
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
Google Workspace Community blogs are articles written by Googlers with product updates, news, best practices, how-tos and more. So far in 2023, we’ve already published 11 blogs (compared to 15 in all of 2022)!
Our most viewed blogs in 2023 are as follows:
- Google Workspace Customer Newsletters Thank you @Lesleymustari!
- Google Currents migration to Spaces in Google Chat: Overview, resources, and FAQs Thank you @Jaxo123!
- Introduction to Google Workspace Learning, Training, and Certification Thank you @KarisaE
- Increasing your productivity with Google Workspace Smart Canvas Thank you @rmaupin!
- Get enterprise ready with Google Meet: Latest features, what’s coming next, and FAQs Thank you @nralexander
Honorable mentions and shoutouts
@Donato Thank you for sharing your technical expertise and taking the time to provide valuable resources for our Community, including an event on Google Workspace AI automations, using Google Workspace with AppSheet, and more.
@vchitra Thank you for providing app templates and resources that help users combine the power of Google Workspace with AppSheet!
Thank you @Meaghanrose @Gabe1116 for engaging with our Google Workspace Customers and sharing their amazing stories with the broader Google Workspace ecosystem - at events, in the Community, through the Google Workspace User Love playlist, and much more. Thank you for all you do!
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!
Where we’re going
We’ve come a long way and have reached 100,000 members, but there’s more room for us to run. Collaboration, productivity, and hybrid work isn’t slowing down and neither are we. We have some exciting plans to continue investing in this Community and we can’t do it without you.
Please continue to provide feedback in our Community Feedback forum - what you like currently, what you’d like to see in the future, which topics we should cover more (or less), which content types you prefer (or don’t), etc. Your feedback is critical in making this community a helpful and worthwhile place to be!
With this in mind, we have a few updates coming down the track that our Community team is working on - alongside many other Googlers, Community members, customers, and partners - to help make the Community even better. Below is a sneak peek into these updates, but stay tuned for more details throughout the year.
Welcoming the Looker Community to the Google Cloud Community
Looker is Google’s business intelligence solution, making it easier for users to get insights from data. Currently, the Looker Community lives here, but on May 22nd, the Looker Community will have a new home under the Google Cloud Community.
Moving to the Google Cloud Community ensures long-term durability and sustainability of this community and its programs. This iteration will also allow us to manage and moderate the community more efficiently, which will enable us to offer more updates from the product team and more community events to learn and share best practices from Looker experts. Learn more in our announcement post here.
What does this mean for you, as the Google Workspace Community? Looker can be used in combination with Google Workspace solutions to make actionable business intelligence more accessible and helpful for your users.
For example, using Connected Sheets in combination with Looker brings modeled, trusted data from 50+ different supported databases into the familiar spreadsheet interface of Google Sheets, enabling users to work in a way that is comfortable and convenient.
Learn more about this solution in our upcoming event on June 22nd: Build a data-driven culture with Google Sheets and Looker
Community ranks and badges
Thanks to everyone who has provided their feedback regarding the Google Cloud Community’s rank structure, badges, and recognition program. We’ve been hard at work developing an updated Community rank structure and recognition program that will:
- Encourage and reward quality contributions
- Indicate members’ level of engagement and expertise, which can help others know how to best respond and communicate with each other
- Help establish credibility and visibility as a leader
- Bring an element of gamification that helps make Community fun!
It’s not too late to share your thoughts. Please let us know what you think in the comments here. Your feedback is tremendously helpful in ensuring any changes we make are aligned to your wants and needs.
Continuing to invest in live events, soon with more speakers from the Community
It’s been so rewarding engaging with you all during these live events as we learn and answer questions together across all Workspace topics.
As always, you can see our previous and upcoming events here.
As we continue in 2023, we plan on including more speakers from the Community, including our customers, partners, Google Cloud Innovator Champions, Certified professionals, and more. We want to know how you are using Google Workspace solutions to innovate, solve problems, improve customer experiences, and more. When we share together, we can learn and grow together.
We also want to make sure we’re hosting these events so they continue to be worthwhile and beneficial for you. Please let us know if there’s anything we can do to improve for the future - topics, length, format, registration process, speakers, etc. Thank you for your feedback!
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 @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 here’s to another 100,000 members!
