The Open Organization Ambassadors Report
++ August 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 August 2016 edition of the Open Organization
Ambassadors Report!
August was a fantastic month for the Open Organization community at
Opensource.com. Stories about open organizations generated 13,771 page
views, and we added another 331 recipients to our newsletter mailing
list. We also welcomed our newest ambassador, Chad Whitacre of Gratipay,
and released the print edition of _The Open Organization Field Guide_.
We published 10 articles in August. Nine different authors composed
those stories. And of those nine authors, three were ambassadors. That
means roughly one-third o four content came from ambassadors in August.
This number is just fantastic. We can't fully express how grateful we
are for your partnership, and we're thankful for all you're doing to
strengthen the open organization community.
Here's to a wonderful September!
Jason &
Bryan
[P.S.–I tried redesigning the newsletter this month, so GMail can't as
easily jank it up. Feedback welcome!–B]
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#### {2} Ambassador Update ####
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Ambassadors published the following articles in August:
Laura Hilliger: "How to design your project for participation"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/8/best-results-design-participation
Sam Knuth: "Managers: Do you delegate or donate?"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/8/managers-do-you-delegate-or-donate
Allison Matlack: "Combining individual powers to make team collaboration
easy"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/8/captain-collaboration
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#### {3} Site Stats ####
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Our top articles of the month were:
1. Jim Whitehurst: "How to keep a meritocracy in check"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/8/how-make-meritocracy-work
Views: 1,705
2. Jackie Yeaney: "6 ways to take care of your digital appearance"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/8/6-steps-developing-your-open-leadership-brand
Views: 743
3. Jim Whitehurst: "Open education is more than open content"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/8/harnessing-power-open-education
Views: 697
4. Jen Kelchner: "6 tips for interviewing with open culture companies"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/8/what-ive-learned-interviewing-open-organizations
Views: 363
5. Allison Matlack: "Combining individual powers to make team
collaboration easy"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/8/captain-collaboration
Views: 340
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* Page views for August: 13,771 (July: 12,790; June: 17,216)
* Open Organization channel landing page generated 1,023 page views
* "What is The Open Organization?" page generated 535 page views
* Open Organization Field Guide landing page generated 920 page views
* Catalyst-In-Chief landing page generated 404 page views
* Newsletter subscribers: 2,277 (+331 on the month)
* Newsletter open rate (average): 66.41%
* Newsletter clickthrough rate (average): 7.1%
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#### {4} Monthly Highlights ####
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In August we welcomed our newest open organization ambassador, Chad
Whitacre, to the community. Chad leads Gratipay, an open organization
rethinking payments the open source way. In the past, Chad has written
about the company's hire-yourself employment system and its
take-what-you-want compensation system [1].
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On August 25, we hosted our monthly #OpenOrgChat on Twitter. This
month's topic was "The Open Organization's Greatest Challenges." The
chat saw 408 tweets from 43 contributors across the globe, with 735,681
timeline deliveries. Our chat had a reach of 87,943. More details are
available in the full report [2].
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On August 2, we launched the print edition of _The Open Organization
Field Guide_, now available from Lulu [3].
[1] https://opensource.com/users/whit537
[2]
https://www.hashtracking.com/reports/openorgbook/openorgchat/TOO-08252016
[3]
http://www.lulu.com/shop/opensourcecom/the-open-organization-field-guide/paperback/product-22765163.html
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#### {5} Looking Ahead ####
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Our next live ambassadors meeting is on the horizon! We'll gather on
September 8 at 10:00 Eastern / 14:00 UTC for our monthly conversation.
Please do consider joining us! Agenda building is underway, and you're
welcome to add your items to the outline [1]
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Our next #OpenOrgChat Twitter chat will occur on Thursday, September 22
and 14:00 Eastern / 18:00 UTC. This month's topic is "Open Organizations
and Accountability," so we'll be discussing the nature of accountability
in networked organizations, accountability's dynamics in communities,
tools for maintaining accountability, and more. If you're avaialble,
we'd love for you to join us. Moreover, we're always looking for special
guests to join as featured participants. Know someone who might fit the
bill? Let us know.
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We're hard at work on the next companion volume to _The Open
Organization_, something entitled _The Open Organization Leader's
Manual_. It's coming along nicely, and contains severeal pieces from
ambassadors. We'll have more detail soon, as we plan to dual-launch the
book both in print and electronically.
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[1]
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sSC6HUXxwDGPW941CErQrsIrlK3KrkhVwHOifBeMjL8/edit
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#### {6} Ambassador Notes ####
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Chad Whitacre writes:
In August, I:
- Joined the Open Organization Ambassadors!
- Attended and spoke (and met Jono!) at the Abstractions [1] conference
- Set up a GitHub repo [2] to track my #openorg work
- Scheduled a call [3] with Brook Manville
- Started thinking [4] about my first column
[1] http://abstractions.io/
[2] https://github.com/whit537/openorg/issues
[3] https://github.com/whit537/openorg/issues/2
[4] https://github.com/whit537/openorg/issues/1
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