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This week from People Nerds: A new slack channel for UXRs and some essential advice for conducting workshops remotely.

Be a Founding Member of the People Nerds Slack Virtual togetherness can't fully replicate actual togetherness, but we can still find ways to connect as a community.   Enter: People Nerds Slack   Discuss your work, your passion project, and the litany of things you're just curious about. We'll do our part to help you parse through questions and form connections. Expect a regular program of AMAs with leading UXRs, community calls, and slack-channel-exclusive resources—alongside organic opportunities to meet, learn, and share. JOIN US "Sorry, you were on mute. Say that again?" Running remote meetings can be a struggle. Running remote workshops can be a disaster. Here's a stress-reducing primer for conducting remote workshops as smoothly as possible.   LEARN HOW More we're discussing: ICYMI: We compiled all the best practices we've relied on for remote user research into a massive, start-to-finish, guide. Read it on the blog here, or snag the PDF version here.  If you have some findings you've been scratching your head over, it might be time to familiarize yourself with these 10 common cognitive biases impacting UXRs. Empathy for our participants is more important now than ever. Here's some advice from Social UX researcher, Alba Villamil, on how we can better listen to, and make an impact for, our users. What we're hearing:  This Researchers for Hire Google Form is being passed around to help UXRs affected by COVID-19. The goal is to help researchers prepare for interviews, connect with mentors, and ultimately find a job. Both helpers + job searchers can be added here. Interesting guide from Muzli on improving collaboration by developing a "co-creative mindset" across your team. The ResearchOps community just released their first podcast episode; it's a fireside chat on the future of research operations with the community's co-chair (Holly Cole).  dscout is a company composed of People Nerds working to make context-rich human insight an everyday habit across organizations. The dscout platform—Diary, Live and Recruit—enables remote qualitative research that brings researchers into the moments experienced and shared by real people. Curious about the platform or working with dscout? Talk to an account executive.  dscout, 222 North LaSalle St. Suite 650, Chicago, Illinois 60601, (312) 880-9715 Unsubscribe Manage preferences