The Open Organization Ambassadors Report
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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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What a month it's been!
Open organization materials at Opensource.com generated 17,637 page
views in February. We published nine new articles—each from a different
author—and ambassadors contributed four of them. What's more, we
maintained our first-place search ranking for "what is the open
organization" and welcomed 150 more subscribers to our weekly
(redesigned-for-2018) newsletter.
Thanks to the hard work of the Open Organization Ambassadors, more and
more people are becoming aware of the open organization concept and
message. Read on for more details about what they've been up to!
Bryan
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#### {2} Ambassador Update ####
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Ambassadors published the following articles in February:
Sam Knuth: "Learn how to delegate with presidential charisma"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/18/2/delegation-team-of-rivals
Angela Robertson: "How slowing down made me a better leader"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/18/2/open-leadership-patience-listening
Lauri Apple: "Improving teamwork by engineering trust"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/18/2/intentional-relationship-design-1
Ron McFarland: "Designing a system that helps the best ideas win"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/18/3/dalio-principles-1
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#### {3} Site Stats ####
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Our top articles of the month were:
1. Jeff Wentworth: "We're still learning from this failed blockchain
experiment"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/18/2/the-dao-blockchain-experiment
Views: 1,011
2. Tracy Buckner: "3 steps to reduce a project's failure rate"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/18/2/constructing-project-requirements
Views: 985
3. Sarah Conway & Greg Wallace: "A better marketing plan for your open
source software project"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/18/2/open-source-community-marketing
Views: 812
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Page views for February: 17,637 (January: 17,788; December: 20,716)
Workbook downloads in February: 275 (January: 300; December: 620)
Guide to IT Culture Change downloads in February: 122 (January: 112;
December: 238)
Leaders Manual downloads in February: 51 (January: 65; December: 106)
Catalyst-In-Chief downloads in February: 59 (January: 46; December: 69)
Field Guide downloads in February: 86 (January: 73; December: 100)
Open Organization Definition downloads in February: 34 (January: 27;
December: 26)
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Newsletter subscribers: 3,365 (+153 on the month)
Newsletter open rate (average): 45.48%
Newsletter clickthrough rate (average): 5.92%
Page views from newsletter: 425
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#### {4} Monthly Highlights ####
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The Open Organization Workbook has debuted in paperback, and is now
available for at-cost purchase through publishing partner Lulu. [1]
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Open Organization books in paperback form continue to sell well. In
February, we sold a total of 288 copies of books in the series.
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[1]
http://www.lulu.com/shop/opensourcecom/the-open-organization-workbook/paperback/product-23482135.html
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#### {5} Looking Ahead ####
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The next meeting of the Open Organization Ambassadors will occur
Thursday, March 8 at 10:00 Eastern / 15:00 UTC. Collaborative meeting
notes are under construction and available for attendee input. [1]
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Ambassadors continue to discuss and debate the role that the concept of
"trust" plays—both in open organization and in our community's
definitions of the concept. And at our next meeting, we'll continue
discussing trust and determine how we'd like to incorporate it into our
materials. Jen Kelchner and MaryJo Burchard of LDR21 have put together a
nice brief on the subject, which ambassadors interested in this topic
should most definitely review. [2]
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We have some available publication slots! Are you working on your next
great OpenOrg article? Want some extra motivation to finish? Let Bryan
know you'd like to claim the March 13 or 15 publication dates. [3]
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[1]
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sSC6HUXxwDGPW941CErQrsIrlK3KrkhVwHOifBeMjL8/edit?pli=1#heading=h.dxcz6wa7mr13
[2]
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GWT0-TvAKyzPDfN0mQPSkDdgyUK1ah691s07hqHN5j4/edit#heading=h.f56lhcgtaj4k
[3] https://github.com/orgs/open-organization-ambassadors/projects/1
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#### {6} Ambassador Notes ####
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Robin Muilwijk says:
"I'm starting a new article based on an idea from the GitHub board:
"Open Communication with Communities." It will offer companies some
advice and best practices for connecting and communicating with
communities. I'm currently doing research and welcome any input on the
topic."
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{See you next time!—BB}
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