The Open Organization Ambassadors Report
++ (March 2017) ++
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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, community members, and welcome to the March edition of the
Open Organization Ambassadors Report.
March was an exciting month for the open organization community at
Opensource.com.
Our work on expanding our Open Organization Definition with a maturity
model continued in earnest this month. In April, we'll release a "public
beta" on GitHub for anyone to preview and review.
We announced our next community-produced companion to _The Open
Organization_, which will focus on open values in the IT organization.
All work is occurring on GitHub. Many ambassadors have pitched in to
help on the project.
Open organization content on Opensource.com generated 16,194 page views
in March. We published 11 total articles, and nearly half our content
came from ambassadors.
We also conducted our first Twitter chat of 2017, which generated
2,061,477 timeline deliveries.
We can only imagine how April will compare. We'll find out soon enough!
As always, we're grateful to be part of such a vibrant and inspiring
community.
Bryan &
Jason
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#### {2} Ambassador Update ####
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Ambassadors published the following articles in March:
Ron McFarland: "The 4 components of a great decision"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/3/making-better-open-decisions
Sam Knuth: "A lesson in accountability from my Uber driver"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/3/lesson-accountability-from-uber-driver
Laura Hilliger: "3 tips for helping creative people work openly"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/3/open-leader-facilitating-creativity
Jen Kelchner: "Why I launched a consulting agency on open principles"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/3/openness-coming-home
Huiren Woo: "Working for a mission, not a boss"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/3/shankar-crayon-interview
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#### {3} Site Stats ####
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Our top articles of the month were:
1. Sam Knuth: "A lesson in accountability from my Uber driver"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/3/lesson-accountability-from-uber-driver
Views: 1,378
2. Jen Kelchner: "Why I launched a consulting agency on open principles"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/3/openness-coming-home
Views: 663
3. Ajinkya Pawar: "Why the future of advertising is open"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/3/why-future-advertising-open
Views: 597
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Page views for March: 16,194 (February: 16,612; January: 16,430)
Leaders Manual downloads in March: 79 (February: 150; January: 67)
Catalyst-In-Chief downloads in March: 35 (February: 29; January: 17)
Field Guide downloads in March: 46 (February: 49; January: 35)
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Newsletter subscribers: 1,873 (-153 on the month)
Newsletter open rate (average): 48.13%
Newsletter clickthrough rate (average): 5.53%
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#### {4} Monthly Highlights ####
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In March we publicly announced our next community-produced companion to
_The Open Organization_. This volume will focus on open values in IT
organizations—and we'll build it with our community according to the
principles outlined in the Open Decision Framework [1]. Project
development is occurring on GitHub [2]. Since announcing the effort,
we've increased the number of contributing writers to 20.
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HR Agenda Magazine, one of Japan's leading bi-lingual management
publications, published an adaptation of Ron McFarland's writing for
Opensource.com under the title "New Communication Tech: The Question is
Not If, But When – and How – for Japan Companies" [3].
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On March 30, the open organization community gathered for its first
#OpenOrgChat Twitter chat of 2017. The chat, which focused on open
decision-making, saw 384 tweets from 42 contributors, resulting in
2,061,477 timeline deliveries and a reach of 159,014 [4].
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[1] https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/3/announcing-it-culture-book
[2] https://github.com/open-organization-ambassadors/open-org-it-culture
[3]
http://hragenda.hrcentral.co.jp/issue/march-june-2017/article/new-communication-tech-the-question-is-not-if-but-when-and-how-for-japan-companies
[4]
https://www.hashtracking.com/reports/openorgbook/openorgchat/TOO-03302017
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#### {5} Looking Ahead ####
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Our next ambassador meeting will occur April 13 at 10:00 Eastern / 15:00
UTC pm BlueJeans. We'll catch one another up on our various developments
and endeavors, and then discuss our complete draft of the nearly
finished maturity model.
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Work on the Open Organization Maturity Model (an addendum to the Open
Organization Definition) is wrapping up. Have comments or feedback? You
can leave them in the working Google Doc [1]. We're also preparing to
release the complete first draft as a "public beta" on GitHub in the
next few days.
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Work on the community's next book is accelerating. Want to pitch in?
We'd certainly welcome your participation. In that case, GitHub should
be your first stop [2].
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[1]
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AWPJLkqq7NOxpE5V_sAaD0ny1FyiIC1cBf5pm9VXMIo/edit#
[2] https://github.com/open-organization-ambassadors/open-org-it-culture
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#### {6} Ambassador Notes ####
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Phil Foster writes:
"I am continuing the process of writing my book. I have an interview
scheduled with the Vice President of Developer Education at DataStax. I
am still open to people I can interview. Seeking organizations that are
either fully distributed or hybrid."
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Jen Kelchner writes:
"LDR21 and Maximum Change (Philip Foster) are partnering up to host a
virtual summit (conference) on Open Leadership in May. 1) We would like
to gain traction for this as it will be limited online seating, and 2)
if anyone would like to be a panelist for a segment, please let me know!
* Link to registration page coming soon
* Date is May 11th from 10AM - 5PM EST
* Round table segment likely 11:15AM - 12:15
Generation Open Podcast launches on April 4th. I'm looking for those who
will commit to going into iTunes day of to download & rate so we can
climb the new and noteworthy list. Sign up [1] so I can send all of the
info and also for you to share with others as launch day approaches!"
[1] http://eepurl.com/cHwsab
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{See you next month! Stay open—BB}
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