Introducing Community Circle

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  Hey Friends,
  
  Community Circle is now live!
  
  Community Circle is filled with free educational resources to help the community to develop their skills, connect with one another, and get advice and insights from experts during these uncertain times.
  
  We've started by bringing together many of the resource already available and collated them into sections including 'Working from home', 'Wellbeing support', 'Sharpen your skills' and 'Solve problems together'.
  
  Next, we'll be regularly adding new content including Data Platform fundamentals courses hosted by the Redgate Advocates. These will be launched very soon and will start next week, so stay tuned!
  
  Please help us spread the word within the community by sharing on your social channels using #RGCommunityCircle.
  
  Any feedback or questions, let us know. As I mentioned in my post above if you have any ideas on how we can support the community together, do get in touch.
  
  We hope you enjoy learning together with the Community Circle. 
  
  Roseanna

  Roseanna April 16, 2020 15:31

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  Please do get in touch and let us know if you have any ideas for what to add, or you'd like us to feature any of your community content (relevant blog posts, articles, videos) on the Community Circle pages.

  AnnabelB April 16, 2020 16:37

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  I will be teaching an introductory SSRS class starting Monday. This is the same class that I've taught in St. Louis for several years at LaunchCode. If you know anyone who needs to learn this skill, please spread the word!

  KathiK April 16, 2020 16:47

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  The class will run at 1 pm Central for 8 weeks (except for Memorial Day).

  KathiK April 16, 2020 17:21

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  I will host a SQL Clone vs Containers session ("The SQL Clone Wars and rebellion of Containers"), but unfortunately, it will be in held in Italian.

  AlessandroAlpi April 16, 2020 18:52

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  Hi @AlessandroAlpi, thanks so much for your message. I'll email you separately about this

  Roseanna April 17, 2020 11:35

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  Hi everyone,
  
  We're very excited to launch started our free series of Data Platform courses hosted by Redgate's Microsoft Data Platform MVPs Kendra Little, Grant Fritchey, Steve Jones, and Kathi Kellenberger.
  
  You can join these weekly classes live or catch up with the recordings on Redgate University in your own time.
  
  Schedule:
  
  Mondays at 6pm UTC: Introduction to SQL Server Reporting Services with Kathi Kellenberger
  Tuesdays at 6pm UTC: Built-In SQL Server Tools Make Query Tuning Easier with Grant Fritchey
  Wednesdays at 2pm UTC: T-SQL for Beginners with Kendra Little
  Thursdays at 6pm UTC Live Stairways - Learning DAX and Power BI with Steve Jones
  
  Find out more about all the courses
  
  We'd be really grateful if you could help us to spread the word about these free courses, so more members of the community benefit from this educational content. I've included a couple of posts below for you to share, or you can write your own
  

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  Thanks in advance for your help. Hope you enjoy the courses!
  
  Best wishes,
  
  Roseanna
  
  

  Roseanna April 22, 2020 09:29

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  RoseannaW said:

  Hello Friends,
  
  Learning and sharing are at the heart of Redgate. So now more than ever, we are passionate about doing all we can to help the community through these challenging times by providing opportunities to learn and share with another.
  
  With this in mind, we are delighted to announce our new initiative: Community Circle.
  
  Launching very soon, Community Circle will provide free educational resources to help the community to develop their skills, connect with one another, and get advice and insights from experts during these uncertain times.
  
  Read Annabel's blog post to find out more.
  
  To get the ball rolling, we’re going to start by bringing together many of the resources already available and making it accessible to all. We'll then be regularly adding brand-new content to the Community Circle, including free weekly Data Platform fundamentals courses presented by each of our Advocates, a new eBook (topic to be confirmed soon), a Redgate cookbook, and more.
  
  How can you get involved?
  
  We'd love you to help us with raising awareness of Community Circle within the Data Platform community, as well as with creating some the educational resources. We'll post opportunities to get involved with this as they come up.
  
  So far, we'd really appreciate some help with the following:
  

  • Spreading the word: Please start sharing Community Circle with your networks and add #RGCommunityCircle. We want to help as many people as possible to learn and connect during this time.
  • Submitting recipes for the Redgate Cookbook: We're asking Redgate staff and Friends of Redgate to share their family recipes in our new Redgate Cookbook (to be available digitally). Do you have a family recipe or one of your own go-to recipes that you'd like to share with the community? If so, let us know by emailing friends@red-gate.com. 
  • Sharing your ideas: If you have any further ideas for how we can support the community together, let us know below or by email.

  We're all in this together. We hope that you and the wider community enjoy the Community Circle and that it provides some comfort and joy during this period.
  
  Best wishes,
  
  Roseanna 
  

  *Last call* for "Submitting recipes for the Redgate Cookbook: We're asking Redgate staff and Friends of Redgate to share their family recipes in our new Redgate Cookbook (to be available digitally). Do you have a family recipe or one of your own go-to recipes that you'd like to share with the community? If so, let us know by emailing friends@red-gate.com."
  
  Turns out that just 3 of you are keen cooks/bakers?! In case you missed this announcement the first time around - we've gone and extended the deadline to allow a few more days for photographing your dish/bake. 
  
  Here's what you need to send in if you'd like to be included in this one-of-a-kind recipe book:
  - Intro about the recipe
  - Photo of your creation (ideally on a white background)
  - Ingredients
  - Method
  
  If you prefer eating to cooking, then you're in luck, we'll be sharing the book with you all next month!

  AnnabelB April 29, 2020 12:45

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  Hello Friends,
  
  Hope you're all keeping well.
  
  Have you checked out the Community Circle playlist on YouTube yet? We're regularly adding new content to support career development and continued learning including all the Data Platform classes, plus soft skills training from Buck Woody, Kathi Kellenberger, and Steve Jones.
  
  Do you have any career development guidance that you'd like to share with the community? Let us know and we can add your videos to the playlist.
  
  Best wishes,
  
  Roseanna

  Roseanna April 30, 2020 08:47

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  Hi all,

  On Tuesday 26 May, we’re opening up our Ask The Experts webinar to all for the first time (previously this webinar was open to Redgate customers only).

  During the webinar, Microsoft MVPs Grant Fritchey, Kathi Kellenberger, and Steve Jones will be answering the community’s questions on Git, as voted for via a poll on our main Twitter channel.

  Register here

  We’d love it if you could join us for the live webinar and help us to spread the word on your social media channels. To make this as easy as possible, we’ve suggested some copy below:
  
  Twitter:
  Do you want advice on using #Git? Join Microsoft Data Platform MVPs @auntkathi, @way0utwest, and @GFritchey for redgate's #AskTheExperts webinar on Tuesday 26 May as they answer your Git questions. Register now and submit your question: https://bit.ly/2LGv85R #RGCommunityCircle
  
  LinkedIn:
  Do you want advice on using #Git? Join Microsoft Data Platform MVPs Grant Fritchey, Steve Jones, and Kathi Kellenberger for Redgate's #AskTheExperts webinar on Tuesday 26 May as they answer your questions on #Git. Register here and submit your question: https://bit.ly/2LGv85R #RGCommunityCircle
  
  

  Many thanks in advance,

  Roseanna

  P.S. If you’d like to work with us to support the Data Platform community through Community Circle, get in touch!

  
  

  Roseanna May 19, 2020 14:01

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  Hello Friends,
  
  Hope you're all well.
  
  I have a couple of exciting Community Circle updates to share, featuring several of your fellow Friends!
  
  We've launched a cookbook! Introducing A Byte of Redgate
  
  To help support your wellbeing during these challenging times, we have created a unique cookbook designed for and by the Redgate community. A Byte of Redgate includes recipes from Redgaters as well as Friends of Redgate @..., @Ben_Weissman and @BobPusateri. We hope it will help everyone who reads it to exercise positive mental health through cooking, baking and eating. Download your free copy pdf/epub and start cooking.
  
  A huge thank you to all our contributors. You can find out more about the creation of the cookbook in Annabel's blog post.
  
  Community Circle Cloud Conversation Club - starting June 5
  
  In this new series of live panel sessions, Redgate's @Grant will be a discussing a different cloud topic every Friday alongside a range of Data Platform MVPs and industry experts. 
  
  The series will be kicking off on June 5 with the topic “Why PaaS is a Must For Cloud Management”. In this session, Grant will be joined by an all FoRG line up: @BobPusateri, @crobles, @..., @DBAKevlar, and @fgeisler
  
  Subscribe to Redgate on YouTube to get notified when we’ll be broadcasting live on YouTube, or simply join this Zoom meeting at 9:00 PT, 11:00 CDT, 13:00 EDT, 17:00 BST.
  
  Cheers,
  
  Roseanna

  Roseanna June 01, 2020 09:21

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