The Open Organization Ambassadors Report
++ (May 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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Welcome to the May edition of the Open Organization Ambassadors Report!
We published 9 articles exploring open organizational principles and
examples in May, each one by a different author. Open Organization
ambassadors contributed 4 of those 9 articles.
Those stories made for a record-setting month. Our articles generated
19,962 page views at Opensource.com in May (incidentally, the previous
record was 18,626 page views in March 2016).
Please enjoy reading about all our success in this month's report. And
above all: Thank you for being part of this wonderful community.
Bryan &
Jason
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#### {2} Ambassador Update ####
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Ambassadors published the following articles in May:
Lauri Apple: "How Socrates taught me to talk to developers"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/5/better-it-socratic-method
Allison Matlack: "Changing your entrenched processes can increase
customer loyalty"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/5/doing-the-right-things
Philip Foster: "Proceed with caution when rolling back programs like
work-from-home"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/5/rolling-back-openness
Laura Hilliger: "What to do when your open team has impostor syndrome"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/5/team-impostor-syndrome
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#### {3} Site Stats ####
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Our top articles of the month were:
1. Chris Short: "5 laws every aspiring DevOps engineer should know"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/5/5-devops-laws
Views: 4,522
2. Matt Micene: "What's the point of DevOps?"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/5/what-is-the-point-of-DevOps
Views: 2,319
3. Lauri Apple: "How Socrates taught me to talk to developers"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/5/better-it-socratic-method
Views: 1,312
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Page views for May: 19,962 (April: 13,991; March: 16,194)
Leaders Manual downloads in May: 70 (April: 104; March: 79)
Catalyst-In-Chief downloads in May: 28 (April: 10; March: 35)
Field Guide downloads in May: 58 (April: 29; March: 46)
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Newsletter subscribers: 1,804 (-1 on the month)
Newsletter open rate (average): 43.91%
Newsletter clickthrough rate (average): 4.20%
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#### {4} Monthly Highlights ####
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Open Organization Ambassador Jen Kelchner, founder and CEO of consulting
firm LDR21, recently announced a new leadership training and change
management program built on the official Open Organization Definition.
The program, called "Pivot," guides teams through intensive training in
open principles and practices. [1]
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The Open Organization Ambassadors have begun work on their next project:
a detailed and systematic "maturity model" for organizations hoping to
implement and scale open cultures. [2] The work builds on their Open
Organization Definition, last updated in April 2017.
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May saw accelerated engagement on the open organization community's most
extensive collaboration yet: _The Open Organization Guide to IT Culture
Change_, released June 2. The 200-page book features more than 25
authors—including several ambassadors. [3]
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[1] http://ldr21.com/pivot-people/
[2]
https://github.com/open-organization-ambassadors/open-org-definition/issues/11
[3] https://github.com/open-organization-ambassadors/open-org-it-culture
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#### {5} Looking Ahead ####
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The next live ambassadors meeting will occur Thursday, June 8 at 10:00
Eastern / 15:00 UTC. The meeting agenda is now online and ready for
modification. [1]
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At June's meeting, we'll be sure to discuss our progress on the Open
Organization Maturity Model, a complete draft of which is currently on
GitHub. [2] Before we meet, ambassadors may take a look at the work
their peers have produced and offer their comments and/or suggestions.
[1]
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sSC6HUXxwDGPW941CErQrsIrlK3KrkhVwHOifBeMjL8/edit#
[2]
https://github.com/open-organization-ambassadors/open-org-definition/issues/11
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#### {6} Ambassador Notes ####
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This section contains notes the ambassadors send for inclusion in the
newsletter.
Chad Whitacre writes:
"Last month, I promised a piece before our next call—thanks to Bryan &
co., we made it! [1] With that off my back, I departed for the Community
Leadership Summit and OSCON. One session particularly relevant to the
Ambassadors was on "Code review: Finding emergent leaders, encouraging
everyone to participate." Hmm . . . looking over the notes, that might
actually make a good Opensource.com article. Ticketed! [2] Also: Danese
Cooper convinced me of the value of Inner Source(!), as a way to
gradually introduce open thinking that can eventually blossom into full
Open Source. In between that and all the rest, we did manage to squeeze
in lunch with the Opensource.com team, as well as getting smoked by
Shibby in the 5k!"
[1]
https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/4/how-branding-decisions-open
[2]
https://github.com/open-organization-ambassadors/ambassador-board-room/issues/18
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{See you in June!—BB}
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