Community Directory

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Academic Technology

This CoP brings together Stanford community members to share, discuss, and promote effective practices for teaching and learning with academic tech

Agile Stanford

Our Vision is a Stanford that provides world-class Agile leadership by applying the best Agile practices where appropriate to serve those that rely on us, and sharing our findings with the world.

Automation

A community dedicated to the discussion of and support of automating processes, workflows and operations.

Catalyzing a Culture of Communities of Practice (C3oP)

We are a group of Stanford professionals that joined together to form "Catalyzing a Culture of Communities of Practice" - C3oP.

Cloud Computing

Enthusiasts of cloud computing, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) group who share k

Contact Center - Call Center Community

This is a community of call centers within Stanford that focuses on networking and collaboration using technology.

Content Strategy

University affiliates whose work and professional skills include (web) content strategy disciplines.

Creative Writers

Writing is often described as a solitary activity. However, its core purpose is to communicate, which inherently requires more than one person.

Creatives

We would like to provide a forum for exchange and discussion around graphic design & art-direction at Stanford.

Data Practitioners

A collaboration space for anyone who touches data in any manner -- from architecture, to analysis, to consumer -- to share best practices, learn ab

Desktop Advisory Group

Best practices around vendor relations, client experience issues, and innovative new tools.

Development Practices

We meet every two weeks to discuss issues of interest to the Stanford software developer community.

DevOps

A community for discussing, developing, and documenting DevOps practices at Stanford.

Digital Signage

Discussions around the implementation of digital signs on campus. Both traditional signage as well as interactive kiosks.

Distributed & Remote Workers

This community is being designed to support Stanford’s increasingly growing distributed and remote workforce.

Drupallers

We are a grassroots community of Drupal site owners, builders, maintainers, content editors, themers, and module developers who are dedicated to pr

Information Security

A community dedicated to the topic of Information Security at Stanford.

Learning by Design

The Learning by Design Community of Practice has been organized to bring together designers of instruction from across all schools

Multi Function Devices: Scanning, Copying and Printing

There are five departments on campus using the Uniflow system to run MFD (Multi Function Devices).

Neurodiversity in IT

A community focused on advancing and promoting the university’s commitment to diversity and inclusion, specifically related to neurodiversity.

OBI Financial Reporting

Members share tips and best practices in the use of OBI Financial Reporting.

Open Source Lab

The Stanford Open Source Lab was founded in November 2007 by a group of people from across Stanford who feel that openness matters.

Podcast Creators

There are many folks making (or hoping to make) podcasts for their departments.

Prepare Act Care Team (PACT)

The Centers for Equity, Leadership, and Community (ELC)

Product Management

Community for Product Managers, providing a forum to ask questions and share foundational product management knowledge and best practices with others

Project Management

This Community of Practice is a forum to ask questions and share foundational project management knowledge, best practices, and “tips and tricks” with

Qualtrics (Survey Tool)

Qualtrics is a user-friendly and robust research suite that allows one to build, distribute, collaborate, and analyze online surveys from simple fe

Research Software Engineers

RSEs are people who combine professional software expertise with an understanding of research.

Salesforce

A community of Salesforce practitioners coming together to learn and share best practices.

School of Medicine - Research Staff

We are a group of people who share the same profession, Research! Through the process of sharing information and experiences with group members, we learn from each other and have an opportunity to develop personally and professionally

Service Designers

Service Design is about bringing Design Thinking techniques to services (not products).

Social Media Pros

Social Pros, led by the University Communications digital media team, gathers regularly to discuss best practices in social media communications, poli

Solution Architects

We seek to provide a forum to discuss projects and products being used around the University with a goal to share common functionality, methodologies,

Stanford Administrative Champions (SAC)

The Stanford Administrative Champions (SAC) group is a multi-department team of administrative staff throughout Stanford to support, enhance, and grow

Stanford Authoring, Learning and Development CoP (SALAD COP)

This is the go-to group for discussing anything involved with creating online learning experiences for Stanford Employees.

Student Services Staff Members

This community is an informal network of student services staff at Stanford University created to encourage networking and to troubleshoot day-to-day

Student Wellness

This COP will focus on the issue of Student Wellness.

SU High Performance Computing (HPC)

This is a group of HPC systems administrators who regularly meet to talk technical turkey regarding large computing clusters and storage.

Talk of the Farm Speaking Club

Formerly "Stanford Toastmasters" a club with Toastmasters International, our club provides a safe, free, and effective learning environment for Stanford faculty, staff, graduate students, post-doctoral students, Stanford retirees, and previous club members looking to improve their communication and leadership skills.

Team for Improving Productivity at Stanford (TIPS)

TIPS was formed in 1987 so that Stanford school and departmental staff at any level could provide design and implementation input into computer sys

User Experience / UXers

Our mission is to provide a forum for exchange and discussion around user experience at Stanford.

Video Multimedia Group (VMG)

Videographers and technologists whose work includes production and post-production of video and other rich media.

Windows

This is meant to facilitate discussions and brainstorming around common Windows issues, usage patterns, and best practices.

WordPress

Designers, developers and technologist alike who use WordPress as a CMS or Blogging platform.

X-Reality (Virtual, Mixed, Augmented Reality)

X-Reality (XR) is composed of Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality, and Augmented Reality.

Inactive Communities

If you are interested in taking ownership of one of the inactive communities of practice, please contact us.

API Developers

A community for articulating best practices for API development. We are also a learning community, and very open to new people joining us.

Application Support at Stanford

A community focused on the support of applications used at Stanford including both commercial off the shelf applications and custom built app

Audiovisual Technology & Room Support

This COP is for cross-departmental discussions, ideation, and steering of concepts directly relating to audiovisual standards, practices, and innovati

Data Analytics

This is a forum for us to meet other data analytics users and administrators, discuss (and troubleshoot!) issues, share knowledge, and show off our la

Email Campaign

This community is intended to keep campus communicators who utilize email newsletter technology informed of updates, advancements, and workshops on th

Office 365 Support

Campus-wide group of people who support Office 365 or want to stay informed on the latest issues and solutions.

Qualitative Data

Researchers and staff who interface with qualitative data (interviews, focus groups, etc.) are spread across the university.

Stanford Media Group

The SMG is a vibrant community of individuals from across the campus involved in video and audio media.

Student Communications

This community focuses on best practices for communicating with current graduate and undergraduate students at Stanford.

Summer Meet Up

Research Staff Summer Meet Up August 8th at Berg Hall.

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We are gearing up to support you in creating collaborative communities, but content on this site is still being organized and enhanced - there is good stuff here, but some transitions are rough and some sections have little information.

We are Stanford professionals interested in growing effective collaborative communities across Stanford.

A "Community of Practice" (CoP) is a very effective, evolved form of collaborative community.

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