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New on the CSCCE blog: An update on our transition to a self-hosted instance of Canvas for administering our online training courses: www.cscce.org/2026/09/30/i...

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Infrastructure update: CSCCE now self-hosting Canvas LMS - CSCCE

This blog post curates a collection of FAQs about CSCCE’s Canvas transition for our learners - please contact us with any questions!

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The CSCCE @thecscce.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This week at CSCCE, the deadline is approaching to register for our upcoming cohort of Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF), and it’s week 3 of our current Creating Community Playbooks course.

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The CSCCE @thecscce.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Did you know CSCCE offers a range of consultancy services for community builders across the STEM ecosystem? www.cscce.org/consultancy/

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The CSCCE @thecscce.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This week at CSCCE, we’re in week 2 of our Creating Community Playbooks (PBK) course - the course that so many of our training alums cite as a game-changer for their community management work: www.cscce.org/trainings/pbk/

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Creating Community Playbooks (PBK) - CSCCE

Community Playbooks is an online modular training from the CSCCE for scientific community managers, and is part of our certification program.

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The CSCCE @thecscce.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This week at CSCCE, we’re kicking off our Creating Community Playbooks (PBK) course, and onboarding participants ahead of next week’s Project Management for Scientists Bootcamp (PMB). PLUS - sign up for our next CEF course!

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The CSCCE @thecscce.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If you’re an alum of a CSCCE training, or you’ve been paying particular attention to our comms lately, you may have noticed that we’ve been making some updates to our tech stack (in consultation with our community).

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The CSCCE @thecscce.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Is your community documentation in a shambles? Then maybe it’s time you signed up for CSCCE’s 7-week online training course, Creating Community Playbooks (registration closes THIS FRIDAY!): www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

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Creating Community Playbooks (PBK26F)

Course DescriptionThis seven-week course is for anyone who wants to create or update a playbook but needs some guidance and/or accountability to get it made.…

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The CSCCE @thecscce.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Coming up later this fall, CSCCE’s foundational training course Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals is back for its 18th(!) general registration cohort: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

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Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF26F)

Course DescriptionThis eight-week course is for new or existing community managers who are looking to learn about core frameworks and vocabulary to describe…

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The CSCCE @thecscce.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

What’s a playbook - and why should you make one? Playbooks are “higher-order” documentation that curate the who, what, why, when, where, and how of your project.

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The CSCCE @thecscce.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This week at CSCCE, we’re hosting our last Mini-workshop of the summer, and turning our attention to Fall training prep. We’re also looking forward to our next Quarterly Skills Share session - read on to find out what a QSS is!

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The CSCCE @thecscce.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Are you part of a volunteer community in which you’ve taking on a leadership role, but you’re worried about how to ask for contributions from others or how to accommodate a range of skills and/or availability? Join us for our next Mini-workshop!

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The CSCCE @thecscce.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This week at CSCCE, we’re hosting a Mini-workshop series on setting the stage for large-scale collaborative projects, and gearing up for a busy fall training season! Several opportunities to get involved - read on!!

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The CSCCE @thecscce.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We get it - creating documentation to support your project is laborious! But, with a playbook in hand you’ll end up saving time, energy, and make a lot of people’s lives a lot easier (including yours!)

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The CSCCE @thecscce.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF) is BACK on the CSCCE training calendar for the last time in 2026! Register for this foundational training, perfect for anyone hosting communities or managing collaborations: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

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Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF26F)

Course DescriptionThis eight-week course is for new or existing community managers who are looking to learn about core frameworks and vocabulary to describe…

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The CSCCE @thecscce.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This week at CSCCE, we’re hosting another Mini-workshop (this time on hosting online events) and working behind the scenes on some technical infrastructure updates.

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The CSCCE @thecscce.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Is your community documentation a mess? Do your members know where to go to look for technical help? How about your teammates? If any of these questions give you pause, maybe it’s time you considered creating a community or team playbook! www.cscce.org/trainings/pbk/

The digital badge image for Creating Community Playbooks (PBK) is a mint green circle with a white center. “PLAYBOOKS” spelled out in white, over the top of the mint green circle, and a mint green umbel design is overlaid in the white center. At the bottom right, on the outside of the circle, it says “CSCCE Training Course” in two shades of teal.

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The CSCCE @thecscce.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals, CSCCE’s foundational training for STEM community managers, is BACK this October!!! www.cscce.org/trainings/cef/

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Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals - CSCCE

Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals is an online modular training from the CSCCE for scientific community managers.

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The CSCCE @thecscce.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This week at CSCCE, we’re hosting a Mini-workshop on Decision-making (and we have more similar sessions open for registration!) and we’re supporting a client in launching their new champions program.

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The CSCCE @thecscce.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Playbooks are written hubs that keep your community members, community champions or community team on the same page by making visible the who, what, why, when, where, and how of your shared work together.

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The CSCCE @thecscce.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Do you have a playbook to coordinate your team, community, or champions program? If not, consider this your sign to get one made!

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The CSCCE @thecscce.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This week at CSCCE, we’re preparing for our upcoming Mini-workshop series (all sessions are open for general registration!), and putting some finishing touched on new updates to our digital badging platform, Credible!

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The CSCCE @thecscce.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

There’s just 5 places left in our Project Management for Scientists Bootcamp (PMB), which will run on Mondays and Thursdays beginning Monday, 21 September until Thursday, 22 October 2026: www.cscce.org/trainings/pr...

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Project Management for Scientists Bootcamp (PMB) - CSCCE

Project Management for Scientists is an online training from the CSCCE for community managers and project leaders in STEM.

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The CSCCE @thecscce.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Join us in July/August for a Mini-workshop! We’ve added 6 bite-size professional development opportunities to our calendar, perfect for anyone convening communities, collaborations, or teams in STEM: www.cscce.org/trainings/cs...

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CSCCE Mini-workshops - CSCCE

90- to 120-minute sessions that introduce discrete ideas in community management or go deeper on a core framework.

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The CSCCE @thecscce.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Coming up this fall, we have two multi-week courses designed for anyone supporting collaborative projects in STEM (and adjacent disciplines): Creating Community Playbooks and Project Management for Scientists.

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The CSCCE @thecscce.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Big news from CSCCE: We’ve built our own platform for issuing digital badges to graduates of our trainings and learning programs! It’s called Credible, and you can read more here: www.cscce.org/2026/06/17/i...

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Infrastructure update: CSCCE launches Credible, a new digital badging platform - CSCCE

Find out more about our new digital badging platform, including current and "in-the-works" features for admins and recipients!

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The CSCCE @thecscce.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Our upcoming Project Management for Scientists Bootcamp (PMB) is already half full! This course is perfect for anyone working in a STEM setting and looking for a lightweight project management training: www.cscce.org/trainings/pr...

A screenshot of the PMB info sheet, which is a free-to-download PDF describing the course.

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The CSCCE @thecscce.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Are you running a scientific community, project, or program and wish that your documentation was more up-to-date, easier to find, or organized so that others can use it?

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The CSCCE @thecscce.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Our Project Management for Scientists Bootcamp (PMB) is over half full already! If you’re interested in joining the training in September, we encourage you to register soon: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

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Project Management for Scientists Bootcamp (PMB26F)

Course DescriptionThis seven-session online bootcamp intensive offers a grounding in the basics of project management, tailored to apply to specific STEM contexts and with a strong emphasis on the…

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The CSCCE @thecscce.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

“Documentation debt” is a common challenge for open-source projects, so as part of the pilot cohort of the Birdaro training program we offered a 6-week workshop-style training in creating “playbooks.”

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The CSCCE @thecscce.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Are you a scientist looking for a lightweight, online training in project management? Look no further! CSCCE’s Project Management for Scientists Bootcamp is back this fall, and registration is open! www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

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Project Management for Scientists Bootcamp (PMB26F)

Course DescriptionThis seven-session online bootcamp intensive offers a grounding in the basics of project management, tailored to apply to specific STEM contexts and with a strong emphasis on the int...

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The CSCCE @thecscce.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

This week at CSCCE, it’s “Writing Week” for our current cohort of Content Design (CODE). And behind the scenes, we’re gearing up for our next private cohort of Project Management for Scientists (PMB)!

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The CSCCE @thecscce.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

We’re also in the online classroom this week with our current cohort of Content Design (CODE) - which explores how to create and share community-engaged content (with a focus on STEM communities) [www.cscce.org/trainings/code ]

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The CSCCE @thecscce.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

It’s the last week of our current cohort of Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF), and the culmination of an 8-week journey for our learners! [What’s CEF? > www.cscce.org/trainings/cef/ ]

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Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals - CSCCE

Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals is an online modular training from the CSCCE for scientific community managers.

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The CSCCE @thecscce.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

For participants in our current cohort of Content Design (CODE), this week we’re talking about the informational roles of community-engaged content.

A table describing the informational roles of content (Engagement, Invitation, Scaffolding, Curation, Synthesis, and Explainer). The roles are displayed across the top of the table as a rainbow spectrum, with red on the left through to dark blue on the right, and are the headers for each column of the table.

The rows of the table are labeled down the left hand side as: Definition, Affordances/Attributes, Core elements and presentation features, Slogan, and Examples.

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The CSCCE @thecscce.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

This week at CSCCE, it’s the penultimate week for our Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF) learners - plus we’re hosting our Creating core values Mini-workshop on Wednesday!

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The CSCCE @thecscce.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

This week it’s reading week for our current Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals (CEF) cohort. Over the past few weeks, we’ve introduced several core concepts - this week offers learners a chance to consolidate and catch up.

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The CSCCE @thecscce.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

So exciting to see this new playbook out in the world! It was a pleasure working with Tilo and the RSpace project during last year's pilot of the Birdaro Training Program for open source. Congrats on the launch!!

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The CSCCE @thecscce.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

This week at CSCCE, we’re beginning a new cohort of our Content Design (CODE) course. Plus - last chance to sign up for next Wednesday’s “Creating core values statements“ workshop: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

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CSCCE Mini-workshop: Creating core values statements (CoreValues26)

CSCCE Mini-workshops are 90- to 120-minute sessions that introduce discrete ideas in community management or go deeper on a core framework. They do not duplicate any of the materials covered in our mu...

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The CSCCE @thecscce.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

For our current private Project Management for Scientists cohort it’s our last week, and we’ll be closing things out by discussion the Creation domain of the HBR Project Canvas.

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