The Open Organization Ambassadors Report
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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} Editors' Notes ####
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Hello, friends, and welcome to the October edition of the open
organization ambassadors report!
October was a stellar and certainly memorable month for the open
organization community at Opensource.com.
Our content generated 16,742 page views, our second-best month since
launching the channel in May last year. Additionally, we added 153 new
followers on Twitter, and conducted our tenth #OpenOrgChat event on the
platform, which brought together the OpenOrg and DevOps communities.
What's more, several ambassadors visited Raleigh for the All Things Open
conference in October. More on this in the newsletter below.
Thanks to everyone for making our community so vibrant and inspiring.
We're looking forward to another wonderful month in November.
Bryan & Jason
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#### {2} Ambassador Update ####
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Ambassadors published the following articles in October:
Ron McFarland: "A guide to building trust in teams and organizations"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/10/building-organizational-trust
Huiren Woo: "How to recognize an open leader when you see one"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/10/how-recognize-open-leader-when-you-see-one
Sam Knuth: "How to ask why at work without upsetting anyone"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/10/how-ask-why-without-upsetting-anyone
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#### {3} Site Stats ####
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Our top articles of the month were:
1. Bryan Behrenshausen: "Five years in the making, the DevOps handbook
arrives"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/10/devops-handbook-gene-kim
Views: 1,862
2. Huiren Woo: "How to recognize an open leader when you see one"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/10/how-recognize-open-leader-when-you-see-one
Views: 1,784
3. Bobby Martin: "What the history of open source teaches us about
strategic advantage"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/10/history-open-source-teaches-strategic-advantage
Views: 1,463
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Total articles published: 8
Total from unique authors: 8
Total from ambassadors: 3
Page views for October: 16,742 (September: 13,976; August: 13,771)
Field Guide downloads in October: 20 (September: 33; August: 105)
Catalyst-In-Chief downloads in October: 14 (September: 59; August: 48)
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Newsletter subscribers: 2,024 (-22 on the month)
Newsletter open rate (average): 62.86%
Newsletter clickthrough rate (average): 5.15%
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#### {4} Monthly Highlights ####
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Several open organization ambassadors visited Raleigh for the All Things
Open conference in October. As part of the event, they convened a
special half-day working session to review their accomplishments,
discuss community mission and vision, and set new priorities. Chad
Whitacre reflected on the event in a post on GitHub [1], and Bryan
Behrenshausen offered a summary for the community on its mailing list
[2]. Also at the conference, ambassadors sat on widely-attended panels,
gave talks, emceed, and introduced open-minded newcomers to the
principles of open organization.
[1]
https://github.com/gratipay/inside.gratipay.com/issues/757#issuecomment-256234457
[2]
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/private/openorg-list/2016-November/msg00003.html
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In October we hosted a Twitter chat that brought the OpenOrg and DevOps
communities together for a conversation about organizational culture.
The chat generated 254 tweets from 31 contributors, and saw 613,806
timeline deliveries. It had a reach of 172,361.
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Jason Hibbets and Bryan Behrenshausen assisted Jim Whitehurst with a
book signing at All Things Open. The signing occurred after Jim
delivered a keynote presentation at the conference in Raleigh. Twenty
attendees received complimentary copies of _The Open Organization_.
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#### {5} Looking Ahead ####
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Our next ambassador meeting will be Thursday, November 10 at 10:00
Eastern / 14:00 UTC. Bryan is putting the agenda together presently, so
please do add your thoughts and notes to it [1]! Looking forward to
seeing you there.
[1]
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sSC6HUXxwDGPW941CErQrsIrlK3KrkhVwHOifBeMjL8/edit
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We just announced our next live open organization webcast, which will
occur on November 15 at 16:00 Eastern / 20:00 UTC. Jackie Yeaney of Red
Hat will join Charlie Brown of Context Partners for a conversation about
the future of (network-based and community-powered) marketing in an open
world [1]. Please do attend!
[1] https://vts.inxpo.com/Launch/QReg.htm?ShowKey=35579
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Our next #OpenOrgChat on Twitter will occur Thursday, December 1 at
14:00 Eastern / 18:00 UTC. Thanksgiving in the U.S. disrupts our
regularly-scheduled programming this month, so we've decided to hold our
next gathering on the first Thursday in December. The topic will be
"Open Organization Year in Review," where we'll reflect on everything
we've learned in 2016. We really want this one to be a party, so invite
everyone and anyone you'd like to join us!
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#### {6} Ambassador Notes ####
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Chad Whitacre writes:
"In October, I:
- wrote my October column
- attended the Ambassadors call
- looked forward to Ambassadors meeting at ATO"
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++ (See you in November!) ++
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