Cristina Herrera , Annie Rucker , Melissa Westervelt , Mary Ann Bryszewski , Stefanie Barton , Olivia Glaudel , Mindy Montgomery , Chelsey Louzeiro - starting an outreach thread with you folks...any ideas? Have you done something similar?

For my part Jocelyn, I've seen a lot of the 'learning journey' replicated in HR-centric use cases, a lot of which follow the pathing laid out in onboarding-type solutions. The core idea being usage of wiki articles to contextualize the journey/purpose and then using embedded links to short videos or other content, links to other applications as needed and read receipts for confirmation of completion.

That said, I think there are ample opportunities to use any number of tools you have at your disposal to create this. For me, it's a matter of how you'd like the information presented and then contextualizing it appropriately. As an example, creating 'sections' using links widgets, accordions and tabs...things like that.

Any folks I've tagged above, feel free to go wild here...

Brad Rooke Thanks so much for giving this q some visibility, Brad! What you describe is definitely what I have in mind. I'm curious about the layouts and taxonomies others have used. Hoping this thread can generate some ideas...

Brad Rooke - I really like what you all have done with the role-based training and curated pathways in Igloo University. Good stuff.

Melissa Westervelt - thank you!

Hi Jocelyn, we created a virtual think tank with a collection of forums. Each forum had a broad theme that related to our work (Environment, People, Learning, etc.) Staff can post key takeaways from a conference, articles they find interesting, links to webinars, etc., and then invite others into the discussion about that topic. We also use them for crowdsourcing interest in topics for larger internal learning events. Some staff will use it to repost op-ed-style pieces they have written for LinkedIn or share webinars/podcasts where they have been showcased as experts in their field.

I've found that, like ERGs/affinity groups, the forums seem to go through spurts of activity.

I just made a page with tabs for the forum categories, pulled in a widget for recent comments, and made a search for the page for people to join conversations already in progress to reduce duplication where possible.

Chelsey Louzeiro Interesting! This is helpful. Do you include any company-generated L&D content? Or is it all employee-generated?

Jocelyn Flint It's a mix, but mostly employee generated.

Hi Jocelyn Flint - FWIW, my story is a bit of a cautionary tale. Our LXP provider sold our Talent team on the 'commuity platform' aspect of an LXP. They pulled much of the training content out from our DWP... which also removed it from search and made learning a 'destination' activity. Engagement plumeted as people had to be assigned a topic or set aside time to log into a new platform. Employees did not like toggling between platforms (even with SSO). We are now moving back to a hybrid framework with more content (and indexing of content) within our Igloo space. My advice-

• If posting 'official' content, be sure to include your Talent Team and any LMS/LXP management teams very early in the process so everyone is aligned and feels ownership
• Have clarity on where materials will be stored, and in what format (e.g., documents, videos, etc.) so that don't have to worry about that in your link structure

More constructively, one of the things that has gone well is our tech/software training center. We kept the landing page pretty simple. Topics in a big links list on the left, and a Latest Updates column on the right to show activity and maybe help stumble on something new and interesting.

Each topic has a landing page with learning content, links to videos, etc. Some topics are owned by other teams who can choose to be more dynamic with their materials. Others are more static references.

To Chelsea's point about ERGs, this year our ERGs have really liked the PDF galleria widget for sharing articles and newsletters. It's easy to use and has a nice visual layout.

Melissa Westervelt So helpful, Melissa! Thank you so much for taking the time to write this up. And noted about looping the talent team and keeping things on one platform.