People Powered: How Communities Can Supercharge Your Business, Brand, and Teams
by Jono Bacon · 12 Nov 2019 · 302pp · 73,946 words
the power that communities can bring to businesses and teams, there is no greater expert than Jono Bacon. —Nat Friedman, CEO, GitHub If you want to unlock the power of collaboration in communities, companies, and teams, Jono Bacon should be your tour guide, and People Powered should be your map. —Jamie Smith, Former Deputy
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of collaboration and connects our communities—globally and locally. We need to give all organizations and developers the tools to build and foster this effort. Jono Bacon’s book provides timely insight into what makes us tick as humans, and how to build richer, stronger technology communities together. —Kevin Scott, Executive VP
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. —Jim Whitehurst, President and CEO, Red Hat; Author, The Open Organization In my profession, building networks is all about nurturing relationships for the long term. Jono Bacon has authored the recipe on how to do this, and you should follow it. —Gia Scinto, Head of Talent, Y Combinator Continuity Communities are the
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future of business, technology, and collaboration. Jono Bacon’s experience, approach, and candor is critical reading for harnessing this future. —Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, The Linux Foundation If you want to harness the
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power of your customers, People Powered should be the first book you open. Highly recommended. —Whitney Bouck, COO, HelloSign Jono Bacon has spent years perfecting the craft of building productive communities. People Powered is an enormously valuable North Star for doing this work well. —Villi Iltchev
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. —Ben Uretsky, Cofounder, DigitalOcean When people who are not under your command or payment eagerly work together toward a greater purpose, you can move mountains. Jono Bacon is one of the most accomplished experts on this, and in this book he tells you how it’s done. —Mårten Mickos, CEO, HackerOne People
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demystifies the art and science of how to build communities that work. It is essential reading for any organization. —Dries Buytaert, Founder, Drupal and Acquia Jono Bacon is the industry leader in community strategy. People Powered is the industry-leading approach. Read it. —Jose Morales, Head of Field Operations, Atlassian The power
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Powered needs to be on every executive’s bookshelf. —Maxx Bricklin, Cofounder, BOLD Capital Partners Communities are powerful, but they need careful management and fostering. Jono Bacon’s approach is carefully crafted and thoughtful, yet bold and impactful. Be sure to follow his guidance. —Dusty Gustafsson, Head of Engagement, Glorious Games Group
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Managing inclusive communities is a key requirement for all future leaders. Jono Bacon provides the leading experience, nuance, and candor for building powerful, engaging, and inclusive communities. Highly recommended reading. —Nithya Ruff, Senior Director, Open Source Office, Comcast
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Bacon, Jono, author. | Bacon, Jono. Title: People powered : how communities can supercharge your business, brand, and teams / Jono Bacon. Description: Nashville : HarperCollins Leadership, 2019. Identifiers: LCCN 2019007469 (print) | LCCN 2019020210 (ebook) | ISBN 9781400214891 (e-book) | ISBN 9781400214884 (hardback) Subjects: LCSH: Customer loyalty. | Customer services
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try your on-ramps. Amp Up Your Audience Personas Want to see examples of on-ramps for different audience personas? Head over to https://www.jono bacon.com and select Resources. ENGAGEMENT The majority of community members whom I have met benefit from clear guidance and guardrails to be successful. They may
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help with. I want you all to succeed and thrive, no matter what you are working on. Rock on! Notes ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1. “Become a Member,” Jono Bacon, accessed January 9, 2019, https://www.jonobacon.com/join/. FOREWORD 1. Charles Lindbergh, Spirit of St. Louis (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1953), 25
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, 2014, http://www.emmys.com/news/industry-news/video-joseph-gordon-levitt-hitrecord-tv-winning-an-emmy-award. 13. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, telephone interview with Jono Bacon, November 7, 2018. 14. Kate Clark, “Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Artist Collaboration Platform HitRecord Raises $6.4m,” TechCrunch, January 31, 2019, https://techcrunch.com/2019
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, https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/28/ibm-to-acquire-red-hat-in-deal-valued-at-34-billion.html. 29. Jim Whitehurst, email interview with Jono Bacon, November 26, 2018. 30. Desire Athow, “Linux Costs USD 10.8 billion to Build Says Linux Foundation,” IT Pro Portal, October 23, 2018, https://www
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/market-data/market-brief-year-in-review/. 11. IGN Boards, accessed May 25, 2018, http://www.ign.com/boards/. 12. Alexander van Engelen, interview with Jono Bacon via forum private message, May 10, 2018. 13. “Kubernetes/Kubernetes: Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management,” GitHub, accessed March 2, 2019, https://github.com/kubernetes
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Cruz Gets Booed on Colbert,” 0:31, YouTube video, September 22, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NgmpZ2aXtE. 25. Jim Zemlin, email interview with Jono Bacon, November 28, 2018. 26. Zemlin, interview. 3: BUILD IT AND THEY (MAY) COME 1. “Definition of Value,” Merriam-Webster, accessed November 26, 2018, https://www
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Quote,” AZ Quotes, accessed November 30, 2018, https://www.azquotes.com/quote/636581. 2. Mike Shinoda, email interview with Jono Bacon, October 28, 2018. 3. Ali Velshi, email interview with Jono Bacon, November 3, 2018. 4. Jono Bacon, “Global Learning XPRIZE,” Indiegogo, last updated April 9, 2015, https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/global-learning-xprize#/. 5
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of Twitpic. [online] Medium. Available at: https://medium.com/@noaheverett/the-story-of-twitpic-3c3a81157c6c [Accessed 30 Mar. 2019]. 7. Noah Everett, email interview with Jono Bacon, October 22, 2018. 8. Reddit.com. (2015). Could someone explain how the reddit karma system works? : firstdayontheinternet. [online] Available at: https://www.reddit.com/r
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/firstdayontheinternet/comments/30b44n/could_someone_explain_how_the_reddit_karma_system/ [Accessed 30 Mar. 2019]. 9. Jono Bacon, “First Ubuntu Accomplishments Release,” Jono Bacon, May 1, 2012, https://www.jonobacon.com/2012/05/01/first-ubuntu-accomplishments-release/. 9: CYBERSPACE AND MEATSPACE: BETTER TOGETHER 1. SCOREcast, “12th
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, “Community Q&A with John Caldwell—CasinoCoin Director of Advocacy,” 27:41, YouTube video, August 15, 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9B5pNN3nu8. 4. Jono Bacon, “Dealing with Disrespect: How to Handle Your Critics, No Matter What They Throw at You,” 44:20, YouTube video, November 1, 2014, https://www.youtube
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.com/watch?v=N5zDHqrFh-M; Jono Bacon, “10 Avoidable Career Mistakes (and How to Conquer Them),” 29:21, YouTube video, October 19, 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woEuqMxmJvw. 5. Adobe
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/playlist?list=PLXw7EK7EUaUHcijd8lwc9VP6zC7HaGwTg. 6. Internet Archive, “Ubuntu Developer Summit,” Ubuntu, accessed January 12, 2019, https://web.archive.org/web/20121103153904/http://uds.ubuntu.com/. 7. Jono Bacon, “Keep On Rocking in the Free World,” 1:13, YouTube video, November 12, 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dox2nQ3eabg. 10: INTEGRATE, EVOLVE, AND
The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation
by Jono Bacon · 1 Aug 2009 · 394pp · 110,352 words
The Art of Community Jono Bacon Editor Andy Oram Copyright © 2012 Jono Bacon O’Reilly books may be purchased for educational, business, or sales promotional use. Online editions are also available for most titles (http://my.safaribooksonline.com).
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community online? That’s why this book is such a boon to those who run communities and the rest of us who participate in them. Jono Bacon has firsthand experience with managing a group of the most bloody-minded and independent people on the planet: open source programmers. The information in this
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accomplish things that you never dreamed of. I can’t think of a better guidebook than The Art of Community and your fearless tour guide, Jono Bacon, for helping you navigate this journey. In the first edition of the book, Jono created a strong foundation of knowledge for building and empowering communities
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share it with others or in other (noncommercial) documents under the requirement that you credit the work to The Art of Community (O’Reilly) by Jono Bacon. You are not allowed to commercially redistribute the book; if you want to discuss commercial redistribution or commercial opportunities, please contact O’Reilly. Join Our
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the core community team with feedback and merge feedback in. Organize an online meeting to propose any changes to the specification. Build a prototype. OWNER: Jono Bacon. This example demonstrates a number of subtle points in building a comprehensive strategic plan: The OBJECTIVE should be a specific outcome that you would like
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you will take a look at each day. As an example, I have searches set up for “The Art of Community”, “#artofcommunity”, “Ubuntu”, “community”, and “Jono Bacon“. Each day I take a quick spin through these searches to get an idea of what people are tweeting about that is related to the
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my entirely ad hoc and off-the-cuff broadcast. With my interest piqued, I decided to start performing a regular show called At Home with Jono Bacon. Whether you make use of prerecorded or live video, there are some nuggets of best practice that are useful to keep your viewers engaged in
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the core community team with feedback and merge feedback in. Organize an online meeting to propose any changes to the specification. Build a prototype. OWNER: Jono Bacon. The trick in managing projects is to understand how different people are interested in different levels of visibility in your projects. When we can conceptualize
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://www.twitter.com/jonobacon Facebook http://www.facebook.com/jonobacon Google+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/114419073019603780828/posts LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jono-bacon/0/32a/b61 Videos I have also created a YouTube channel that is regularly updated with videos about community management, leadership, and other topics, including
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(Stuart Langridge), Planning Your Community ArduPilot Mega design, Foreword, Foreword assumptions, during brainstorming sessions, Technique 1: Question assumptions, Technique 1: Question assumptions At Home with Jono Bacon (live stream show), Videos audience, Roles, Roles author of this book, Social Media, Social Media, Keeping in Touch, Keeping in Touch awareness, creating, Campaigns and
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in Openness Y YouTube, Videos, Videos, Mark Bussler, Classic Game Room Z Zazzle, Selling Zinsser, William, Don’t write like an institution About the Author Jono Bacon is an award-winning leading community manager, author and consultant. Currently the community manager for the worldwide Ubuntu community, Bacon is a regular keynote speaker
Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World
by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler · 3 Feb 2015 · 368pp · 96,825 words
, challenges are necessary because they help you keep “entitlement” to a minimum. “The goal of every community is to create a sense of belonging,” says Jono Bacon, the Senior Director of Community at XPRIZE. But there’s a flip side: the opposite of belonging is ‘entitlement.’ Many communities struggle with entitlement, and
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. 23 Richard Millington, “7 Contrary Truths About Online Communities,” Feverbee.com, September 22, 2010, http://www.feverbee.com/2010/09/7truths.html. 24 AI with Jono Bacon, 2014. 25 Jolie O’Dell, “10 Fresh Tips for Community Managers,” Mashable, April 13, 2010, http://mashable.com/2010/04/13/community-manager-tips/. 26
The Debian Administrator's Handbook, Debian Wheezy From Discovery to Mastery
by Raphaal Hertzog and Roland Mas · 24 Dec 2013 · 678pp · 159,840 words
of LinuxScrew.com, Stephan Ramoin of Gandi.net, Matthew Bloch of Bytemark.co.uk, the team at Divergence FM, Rikki Kite of Linux New Media, Jono Bacon, the marketing team at Eyrolles, and numerous others that I have forgotten (sorry about that). I would like to address a special thanks to Roland