How did you earn your Trailblazer badge?

Hi Matt, George,

Thanks for asking. The Trailblazer Badge was introduced into the community following the migration of our former Communities of Practice content and activity to ProjectManagement.com. The work that was taken on to first build and then migrate all of this content took hundreds of volunteers and thousands of hours to complete.

The contributors initially recognized with the Trailblazer Badge took on the following tasks to make all of this possible:
- Leading and participating on a team of volunteer leaders to develop the business case and plan for migrating our community content and activity to ProjectManagement.com, with the recommendation to create a more open and inclusive community of project management practitioners
- Actively supporting the change management and communication plan for our migration to ensure that our members were informed and able to continue to enjoy the benefits of membership throughout the migration
- Leading and participating on teams to review, evaluate and tag more than 1000+ webinars, created by volunteers over 5 years of operation, to be migrated to ProjectManagement.com
- Individually reviewing, evaluating and tagging community articles, white papers, and other published resources to be migrated to ProjectManagement.com
- Leading and participating on teams to pilot our current content submission and collaboration processes and resources, and in doing so, creating additional content for the community
- Curating the initial launch content for the Practice Areas on ProjectManagement.com
- Continuously leading and participating on content creation teams throughout and following the migration of our community model

We had just over 400 volunteers whose efforts were critical to the success of our community migration, and they were recognized as our first Trailblazers.

We know that our community will continue to evolve and that, in order to remain vibrant and adaptable, we will need our members to continue to contribute their ideas, expertise, time and leadership to make this possible. We have chosen to award the Trailblazer Badge to those community members who help us try new ideas, take on new programs or make improvements for the benefit of the community at large.

Recently, we awarded our first group of Congress Experts the Trailblazer Badge for their help in creating the community experience at the 2015 Global Congress - North America. They have helped us to create a model of online/onsite engagement with our Congress audience that we can successfully replicate and build upon for future events.

There is no prescribed set of actions to complete to earn this badge - it is really about being ready and willing to step up to help the community when there is a need and an opportunity to give back, or coming forward to volunteer your time and energy to help build something new to make the experience better.

I hope that this helps!

Hi Matt, George,

Thanks for asking. The Trailblazer Badge was introduced into the community following the migration of our former Communities of Practice content and activity to ProjectManagement.com. The work that was taken on to first build and then migrate all of this content took hundreds of volunteers and thousands of hours to complete.

The contributors initially recognized with the Trailblazer Badge took on the following tasks to make all of this possible:
- Leading and participating on a team of volunteer leaders to develop the business case and plan for migrating our community content and activity to ProjectManagement.com, with the recommendation to create a more open and inclusive community of project management practitioners
- Actively supporting the change management and communication plan for our migration to ensure that our members were informed and able to continue to enjoy the benefits of membership throughout the migration
- Leading and participating on teams to review, evaluate and tag more than 1000+ webinars, created by volunteers over 5 years of operation, to be migrated to ProjectManagement.com
- Individually reviewing, evaluating and tagging community articles, white papers, and other published resources to be migrated to ProjectManagement.com
- Leading and participating on teams to pilot our current content submission and collaboration processes and resources, and in doing so, creating additional content for the community
- Curating the initial launch content for the Practice Areas on ProjectManagement.com
- Continuously leading and participating on content creation teams throughout and following the migration of our community model

We had just over 400 volunteers whose efforts were critical to the success of our community migration, and they were recognized as our first Trailblazers.

We know that our community will continue to evolve and that, in order to remain vibrant and adaptable, we will need our members to continue to contribute their ideas, expertise, time and leadership to make this possible. We have chosen to award the Trailblazer Badge to those community members who help us try new ideas, take on new programs or make improvements for the benefit of the community at large.

Recently, we awarded our first group of Congress Experts the Trailblazer Badge for their help in creating the community experience at the 2015 Global Congress - North America. They have helped us to create a model of online/onsite engagement with our Congress audience that we can successfully replicate and build upon for future events.

There is no prescribed set of actions to complete to earn this badge - it is really about being ready and willing to step up to help the community when there is a need and an opportunity to give back, or coming forward to volunteer your time and energy to help build something new to make the experience better.

I hope that this helps!