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Discover 5 key trends parks and recreation agencies need to stay on top of in 2024. To help agencies navigate these trends, Xplor Recreation compiled powerful data from 20 resources and produced a comprehensive guide featuring 5 (Really) Important Parks and Recreation Trends for 2024 + actionable strategies your agency can implement! Click the link to download your free guide today: https://ow.ly/9nyQ30szTVz Together, we supercharge success 🚀 #WeAreXplor

Discover 5 key trends parks and recreation agencies need to stay on top of in 2024. To help agencies navigate these trends, Xplor Recreation compiled powerful data from 20 resources and produced a comprehensive guide featuring 5 (Really) Important Parks and Recreation Trends for 2024 + actionable strategies your agency can implement! Click the link to download your free guide today: https://ow.ly/nOvz30szTBM Together, we supercharge success 🚀 #WeAreXplor

🌳 Dive into our latest blog post, "Engaging the Community: 6 Strategies for Parks and Recreation Departments"! Discover innovative ways to bring your community together and enhance your local parks. 🌟 Click here to read: https://lnkd.in/gxvxFzeW #RecDesk #CommunityEngagement #ParksAndRec #GetInvolved #Blog

Strategic planning is key to long-term success in parks and recreation. At Game Plan Consulting, we work with city planners to create data-driven solutions for communities. 🌍 #StrategicConsulting #SmartCityPlanning

Will Healy shares insights from #BoozAllen's recent Outdoor Recreation Consumer Study, which builds on long-standing efforts by public land managers and federal agencies, and discusses ways technology empowers outdoor recreational experiences. https://lnkd.in/dMzuVMGp

Why should AI matter to parks and public service generally? Using ChatGPT I am able to write documentation or internal blogs and solve novel coding problems likely 10x faster. Using GitHub Copilot I am able to almost entirely shortcut writing boiler plate code, docstrings, and comments. These are significant portions of my individual contributions on the job, perhaps 50%. This assistance does not eliminate the exercise of any of which because generative AI is nowhere near replacement level but it does make me much more productive and often a better writer/programmer with an AI second opinion. Consequently, I am able to complete more projects not only faster but better, leading to projects that span asset, tree, water, and wildlife management being delivered sooner and better than before for parks. This particularly matters as a solo analyst (not for long - thank heavens we are hiring) on a small team because there is a limiting factor to a single analyst's bandwidth and productivity improves rarely with such large jumps like now post being aided by generative AI. Many of those in similar positions in public service like a parks department are in the same place and every hour & productivity gain matters when data teams are often overlooked and underfunded in those same places. AI may be infrequently adopted by parks department teams but the early adopters, like data teams should be, will see the benefits early and should have impacts. And this is just speaking of generative AI not to mention more traditional approaches of machine learning that are can be more intensely impactful but more narrowly applied. Park staff should not be manually tabulating wildlife from thousands of photos, making budget projections, assessing asset lifecycles, etc in 2024 but here we are and this is why data teams could use more time via productivity (or budget cough cough) enhancements such as from generative AI than anything. #AI #Parks #PublicService #data

Will Healy shares insights from #BoozAllen's recent Outdoor Recreation Consumer Study, which builds on long-standing efforts by public land managers and federal agencies, and discusses ways technology empowers outdoor recreational experiences. https://lnkd.in/ekz47uhy

Will Healy shares insights from #BoozAllen's recent Outdoor Recreation Consumer Study, which builds on long-standing efforts by public land managers and federal agencies, and discusses ways technology empowers outdoor recreational experiences. https://lnkd.in/dtRPmib5

Take a moment to view the free CannonDesign webinar "Greatness is in the Details: Technical Tips that Drive Successful Recreation Facilities."

What are the Parks and Rec trends this year? Check out what National Recreation and Park Association is naming at the top trends: https://lnkd.in/gYfUA6d2