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Online communities offer a wide range of opportunities today, whether you're supporting a cause, marketing a product or service, or developing open source software. The Art of Community will help you develop the broad range of talents you need to recruit members to your community, motivate and manage them, and help them become active participants.
Author Jono Bacon offers a collection of experiences and observations from his decade-long involvement in building and managing communities, including his current position as manager for Ubuntu, arguably the largest community in open source software. You'll discover how a vibrant community can provide you with a reliable support network, a valuable source of new ideas, and a powerful marketing force.
The Art of Community will help you:
- Develop a strategy, with specific objectives and goals, for building your community
- Build simple, non-bureaucratic processes to help your community perform tasks, work together, and share successes
- Provide tools and infrastructure that let contributors work quickly
- Create buzz around your community to get more people involved
- Track the community's work so it can be optimized and simplified
- Explore a capable, representative governance strategy for your community
- Identify and manage conflict, including dealing with divisive personalities
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, has also authored four books and acted as a consultant to a range of technology companies. Bacon's weblog (http://www.jonobacon.org/) is one of the widest read Open Source weblogs and he writes regularly about community management.
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Format:Paperback
This is a handbook on how to run a well organized community online. Some sections cater specifically to open source software projects, while others are more generic and apply to any kind of group effort. Plenty of anecdotes and examples are sprinkled throughout the book, which makes it a reasonably light read.
The book follows the evolution of a community from idea through engaging people, setting up infrastructure, building buzz and handling conflicts. Jono has tried to cover the whole picture of what makes up a great community, whether personalities, technologies or skills.
Areas covered over the nearly 400 pages include infrastructure setup, communication techniques, buzz building, event running, conflict resolution, process establishment and project governance. In every chapter, Jono refers back to experiences from his career, both failures and successes.
If you are running a community of any size, I highly recommend reading this book. Not everything may apply to your community, but for there is a lot in here for everybody.
The book follows the evolution of a community from idea through engaging people, setting up infrastructure, building buzz and handling conflicts. Jono has tried to cover the whole picture of what makes up a great community, whether personalities, technologies or skills.
Areas covered over the nearly 400 pages include infrastructure setup, communication techniques, buzz building, event running, conflict resolution, process establishment and project governance. In every chapter, Jono refers back to experiences from his career, both failures and successes.
If you are running a community of any size, I highly recommend reading this book. Not everything may apply to your community, but for there is a lot in here for everybody.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This is a tremendous book and a must have for anybody who has anything to do with communities. It is really well written and actually great fun to read.
It's relevant across so many areas of my life too. It's been great in my role as deputy editor for a collaborative online radiology resource and organising some of the section editors. It's been amazing to implement some of what I've learnt in my professional life as a radiologist and I've also been using it to help in my church life...
You don't need to be an opensource master to get something from the book - in fact, you don't even need to have a technical background. If you have anything to do with communities and organising things (which must be most folk) this book has something for you.
5 stars!¬
It's relevant across so many areas of my life too. It's been great in my role as deputy editor for a collaborative online radiology resource and organising some of the section editors. It's been amazing to implement some of what I've learnt in my professional life as a radiologist and I've also been using it to help in my church life...
You don't need to be an opensource master to get something from the book - in fact, you don't even need to have a technical background. If you have anything to do with communities and organising things (which must be most folk) this book has something for you.
5 stars!¬
Format:Paperback
As an aspiring community leader myself. I found this book to be straightforward and practical. Offering deeply learned principles that will be useful to community leaders in the open-source and social enterprise arenas.
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Great but perhaps a bit too specific
Disclaimer: I received a review copy of this book from O'Reilly.
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This is a pleasantly written book about managing a community.
The typical Jono Bacon style, where he's not too proud to be himself. Read more
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