Meeting members where they are: A new model for scientific communities

Most communities and teams have members with different levels of participation. As a convenor, how do you describe this? And what can you do to encourage deeper, more collaborative engagement?

In our just-released CSCCE Community Participation Model we address these questions, and describe four different modes of engagement within communities plus one “meta-mode.” You can read about these five modes, and how to use the model to plan and implement inclusive, strategic, and engaging programming, in our new guidebook, which is now available for free download.

In this month’s newsletter:

Explore the CSCCE Community Participation Model,
Learn how others have used the model on this month’s Community Call,
Find out what CSCCE members thought of the online meeting tool Qiqochat in our first virtual tools trial,
Read how to go from burnt out to creative again in our latest guest blog post,
And mark your calendar for our first quarterly programming update.

NEW! The CSCCE Community Participation Model

Does your programming meet your goals? How can you set expectations about member engagement? What does it look like to co-create with others? Our Community Participation Model will help you address these questions and more.

Download the model and guidebook

News and Updates

August’s Community Call: Member Engagement

Learn about the CSCCE Community Participation Model and how scientific associations and research collaborations have used it to inform their work. Join us on Wednesday 26 August at 6pm UTC / 2pm EDT.

Find out more about the call

CSCCE Community Tools Trial Recap: QiqoChat

In the first in a new series where we trial online tools together with community members, we recap our shared impressions of QiqoChat and give you access to our notes from the call. Join us this week when we’ll be trialing collaborative brainstorming tool Mural.

Mark your calendar: The first CSCCE quarterly programming update

Join us on Wednesday, 9 September at 6pm UTC / 2pm EDT for a recap of 2020 so far – and to discuss plans for our community of practice for the rest of the year.

Download a calendar invite

CSCCE resources

Our guide to formats for virtual events has been downloaded almost 5000 times. Additional resources:

And more!

From our Blog

Kickstarting your creativity in the time of COVID-19

In this guest blog post, Stephanie E. Vasko, Managing Director for the Center for Interdisciplinarity at Michigan State University, offers three activities that have inspired creativity since she began working from home in March 2020.

July’s Community Call: Organizing virtual events

For our July community call we invited three members of our community of practice to share their knowledge and start a conversation about best practices when running virtual events. In this post, check out our five take-home messages for creating and hosting inclusive virtual events, or watch the presentations in our video archive.

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