The Open Organization Ambassadors Report
++ (December 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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Greetings, friends, and welcome to the final ambassador report of 2016!
December was a fantastic month for our community. First, we held the
final #OpenOrgChat of 2016. Then we launched _The Open Organization
Leaders Manual_. And finally we published the ambassadors' working
definition of "open organization."
Moreover, we published 11 new articles, and our content generated 15,749
page views at Opensource.com.
As we turn our attention to 2017, let us stress once again how honored
and happy we are to work with such a wonderful community of thinkers,
writers, and practitioners. Here's to an ever more successful 2017!
Bryan &
Jason
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#### {2} Ambassador Update ####
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(Ambassadors did not publish any articles in December.)
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#### {3} Site Stats ####
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1. Bryan Behrenshausen: "Now available: The Open Organization Leaders
Manual"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/12/now-available-open-organization-leaders-manual
Views: 1,165
2. Jackie Yeaney: "How an open leader achieves work/life balance"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/12/openness-only-solution-worklife-balance
Views: 1,066
3. Jim Whitehurst: "Innovation requires new approaches to feedback and
failure"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/12/building-culture-innovation-your-organization
Views: 1,054
4. Don Watkins: "Open education is about improving lives, not taking tests"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/12/make-sharing-rule-not-exception
Views: 588
5. Jen Kelchner: "Why your teams may be failing at the collaboration game"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/12/failing-collaboration-game
Views: 587
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Open Organization homepage generated 1,205 page views
"What is The Open Organization?" page generated 369 page views
Open Organization Field Guide landing page generated 382 page views
Catalyst-In-Chief Landing page generated 257 page views
Open Organization Leaders Manual landing page generated 2,282 page views
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Newsletter subscribers: 2,054 (+157 on the month)
Newsletter open rate (average): 39.05%
Newsletter clickthrough rate (average): 5.14%
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#### {4} Monthly Highlights ####
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In December, the open organization ambassadors at Opensource.com
published their working definition of "open organization," which they
composed and edited collaboratively for several weeks [1]. This project
was one the ambassadors identified as a high-priority task following
their in-person meeting in Raleigh at All Things Open.
On December 6, Opensource.com published the third book-length companion
to Jim Whitehurst's _The Open Organization_: _The Open Organization
Leaders Manual_ [2]. The 100-page book features some of our community's
best writing on open leadership, and it saw more than 1,000 downloads in
December alone.
And on December 1, the open organization commuity gathered on Twitter
for its final #OpenOrgChat of the 2016 season. The chat generated 187
tweets from 41 contributors, with 405,673 timeline deliveries. It had a
reach of 91,552.
[1] https://opensource.com/open-organization/resources/open-org-definition
[2]
https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/12/now-available-open-organization-leaders-manual
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#### {5} Looking Ahead ####
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We'll be jumping into the 2017 already in motion, as we build on our
open organization definition and extend it into other areas of our work.
Columnist Jen Kelchner has proposed creating an "assessment" or
"diagnostic" tool for open organizations—one that leverages the open
organization definition to evaluate organizations seeking to open up.
More on that soon!
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#### {6} Ambassador Notes ####
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Laura Hilliger writes:
"I've been sprinting, sprinting, sprinting on the Greenpeace.org project
[1]. My remixed version of the Open Decision Framework [2] has been
integral to helping a team of never-worked-openly-before publish early
and often on all the goings-on in the project [3]. Want to get involved?
Comment on Medium, tweet with #gpp4 or just get in touch (I'm friendly).
Additionally, my co-op buddies and I [4] have been working on a brand
new email course called Badge Bootcamp [5], an "All the Things" wiki
that contains evolving info on the We Are Open Co-op model, and gearing
up for 2017."
[1] http://greenpeace.org/
[2]
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ldc9dmV1dcm7o1Sjw4RLV6fEAV7ui6nvblhxduZSR0o/edit#slide=id.10
[3] https://medium.com/planet4
[4]
https://medium.com/weareopencoop/are-you-co-op-curious-dea66d88a1fe#.skc9j56ay
[5] http://weareopen.coop/badgebootcamp/
[6] https://github.com/weareopen/AllTheThings/wiki
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