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The Open Organization Ambassadors Report
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MAY 2016
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Contents
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{1} Editors' Notes
{2} Ambassador Update
{3} Site Stats
{4} Monthly Highlights
{5} Looking Ahead
{6} Ambassador Notes
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{1} Editor's Notes
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Welcome, friends, to the May Open Organization Ambassadors report! Below
you'll find our usual reports, along with great news from and about our
ambassador community.
As we write this, we're smack in the middle of Open Organization Week on
Opensource.com. It's an event that's been months in the making, and
we're so grateful to our community of ambassadors for helping us pull it
off. Thank you.
As we gradually turn our attention to "Year Two" of our conversation
about open organizations and the future of management, it's a perfect
time to reflect on the past 12 months of stories, challenges, and
efforts. We're setting our goals for the coming year and working hard to
understand the precise role we can play as a catalyst in this growing
community. As always, we welcome your thoughts and suggestions on what
we might undertake, where we might focus—and how we might do it.
Here's to another outstanding year!
Sincerely,
Jason Hibbets & Bryan Behrenshausen
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{2} Ambassador Update
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Ambassadors published the following articles in May:
Sam Knuth: "Why wasn't I invited to the meeting?
https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/5/why-wasnt-i-invited-meeting
Huiren Woo: "An app competition is fertile testing ground for open
organization principles
https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/5/app-development-contest-team-takes-open-approach
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{3} Site Stats
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Our top articles of the month were:
1. Jim Whitehurst: "Appreciating the full power of open"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/5/appreciating-full-power-open
Views: 1,775
2. Jordan Morgan: "Why a Buffer developer open sourced his code"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/5/buffer-open-culture
Views: 1,252
3. Sam Knuth: "Why wasn't I invited to the meeting?"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/5/why-wasnt-i-invited-meeting
Views: 747
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Field Guide webform sign-ups in May: 84 (April: 123; March: 277)
Field Guide downloads in May: 46 (April: 70; March: 142)
Catalyst-In-Chief webform sign-ups in May: 52
Catalyst-In-Chief downloads in May: 32
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Newsletter subscribers: 1,813 (-26 on the month)
Newsletter open rate (average): 68.53%
Newsletter clickthrough rate (average): 6.67%
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{4} Monthly Highlights
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In May we welcomed our newest Open Organization Ambassador, Huiren Woo.
Huiren joins us from Singapore, where he's been advocating for open
organization principles at conferences and meetups.
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Ron McFarland's recent article, "When empowering employee
decision-making, intent is everything," was translated into Japanese for
_The HR Agenda_, which Ron tells us is "Japan's first bilingual HR
industry magazine."
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On May 31, we launched _Catalyst-In-Chief: A Year of Conversations about
the Open Organization_, which collects Jim Whitehurst's Opensource.com
columns from the past 12 months. The Creative Commons-licensed book is
available as a paperback and a DRM-free download. We also hosted a party
in Red Hat Tower's Hat Rack to celebrate.
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We hosted our May #OpenOrgChat Twitter Chat on the 12th. The event
generated 333 tweets from 40 contributors and 760,967 timeline
deliveries. It achieved a reach of 81,182. A full report [1] is available.
[1]
https://www.hashtracking.com/reports/openorgbook/openorgchat/TOO-05122016
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{5} Looking Ahead
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We're currently piecing together the second half of the 2016
#OpenOrgChat schedule. Here are the themes we're mulling right now:
July 21: Open organizations and non-profits
August 25: Open organizations' greatest challenges
September: Open organizations and accountability
Anyone with ideas for October, November, and December chats should
definitely be in touch. We could also use your recommendations for guest
tweeters and subject matter experts who could participate in the chats.
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Our next ambassador call will occur June 16 at 10 a.m. Eastern! Calendar
invitations have already gone out, and everyone should feel free to add
items to our agenda.
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{6} Ambassador Notes
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Philip Foster writes:
"I will be releasing the 2nd edition of _The Open Organization: A New
Era of Leadership and Organizational Development_. I will be
self-publishing it as of right now—unless I find a new publisher before
then. I will offer a special discount to the open source community. I
don't have details as of yet, but it will be for a signed copy of the
book. More details to come! I am also still in need of dispersed,
remote, distributed organizations to interview."
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Robin Muilwijk writes:
"I will be researching to follow up on the article I wrote for the one
year anniversary, about open organizations and accountability. And my
role as chair of a board in an open source project."
Rebecca Fernandez writes:
"This month, we released the Community Version 1.0 of the Open Decision
Framework on GitHub [1]."
[1]
https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/6/introducing-open-decision-framework
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Laura Hilliger writes:
"I'm a founding member in a co-op [1] with 3 colleagues called
weareopen. Each of us has found that we evangelize for and teach open
practices [2], advise on open org principles and model open behavior
regardless of where/with whom we happen to be working. Moving from
working for institutions and corporations to work with global
non-profits, we met hundreds of people working to solve global problems.
Technology was not something to battle against, but a catalyst, an
enabler of change. As we began to take what we had learned from the
world of open source back to our ‘home’ communities we realised that
open practices could revolutionise their work. We began to advocate for
‘open’ everything [3]. We became believers. The co-op will work to
spread open practices and create open organizations wherever they can.
Get in touch at [email protected]."
[1]
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1l2blO6hkS82RAW1YtaCyQEwZlhteRGNCpJ97cQ6c-zA/edit#slide=id.p
[2]
https://medium.com/weareopencoop/do-only-yogurt-knitting-vegans-start-co-operatives-e03f62b26c3f#.9jw1d9ilt
[3] https://twitter.com/weareopencoop
(Editors' note: Last month's report neglected to include a link to
Laura's newsletter. You'll find that here:
http://www.zythepsary.com/newsletter/. The editors regret this error.)
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