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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Greetings, dear readers, and welcome to the May edition of the Open
Organization Ambassadors report!
May was a successful month for the open organization community at
Opensource.com. We published 7 articles in May, and our materials
generated 12,826 page views. Moreover, several ambassadors appeared on
stage at Red Hat Summit in San Francisco!9
Read on to learn more about what our amazing community has accomplished
this month.
—Bryan
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#### {2} Ambassador Update ####
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Ambassadors published the following articles in May:
1. Jen Kelchner: "Transforming agile people beyond the digital"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/18/5/transformation-beyond-digital
2. Jono Bacon: "Improve your communication skills: Why developers need
details and executives want bullet points"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/18/5/adapt-communication-styles
3. Angela Robertson: "The secret to better one-on-one meetings"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/18/5/open-one-on-one-meetings-guide
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#### {3} Site Stats ####
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Our top articles of the month were:
1. Matt J. Krupnick: "Top 'open' thinkers gather to discuss what's next"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/18/5/power-open-panel
Views: 536
2. Jim Whitehurst: "Why aren't we more invested in our work?"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/18/5/rethink-motivation-engagement
Views: 527
3. MaryJo Burchard: "Facing disruption? Optimize for stability or speed"
https://opensource.com/open-organization/18/5/navigating-disruption-1
Views: 366
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Page views for May: 12,826 (April: 14,374; March: 16,558)
Workbook downloads in May: 42 (April: 54; March: 77)
Guide to IT Culture Change downloads in May: 57 (April: 94; March: 54)
Leaders Manual downloads in May: 33 (April: 60; March: 46)
Catalyst-In-Chief downloads in May: 16 (April: 31; March: 31)
Field Guide downloads in May: 90 (April: 67; March: 69)
Open Organization Definition downloads in May: 30 (April: 21; March: 24)
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Newsletter subscribers: 3,588 (+34 on the month)
Newsletter open rate (average): 39.58%
Newsletter clickthrough rate (average): 4.58%
Page views from newsletter: 143
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#### {4} Monthly Highlights ####
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A panel of Open Organization Ambassadors presented "Tips for
Transforming to an Open Organization" at Red Hat Summit in May. The
panel, which was well attended (40-50 attendees) and generated lively
discussion, featured five ambassadors—Sam Knuth, Laura Hilliger, Jimmy
Sjölund, Heidi Hess von Ludewig, and Jen Kelchner—discussing the
importance of each principle in the Open Organization Definition.
Audience members participated and submitted questions for the panel via
Twitter during the event, and our panel of expert fielded them deftly
and with their usual aplomb.
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#### {5} Looking Ahead ####
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The next meeting of the Open Organization Ambassadors will be June 14 at
10:00 Eastern / 14:00 UTC. The agenda, as always, is open for
ambassadors to modify [1].
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The next volume of the Open Organization book series, _Organize for
Innovation by Jim Whitehurst_, will be publicly available Tuesday, June
5 in celebration of _The Open Organization's_ third anniversary. We'll
be sending release announcements through all the typical community
channels. Be sure to download your copy—and do send feedback!
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In other book-related news, the community is hard at work on the next
volume in the series: a second edition of the _Open Organization Leaders
Manual_. Progress has been wonderful. Authors are now hard at work
drafting their respective chapters. Catch a sneak peek of the table of
contents on GitHub [2].
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[1]
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sSC6HUXxwDGPW941CErQrsIrlK3KrkhVwHOifBeMjL8/edit#
[2]
https://github.com/open-organization-ambassadors/open-org-leaders-manual/blob/master/second-edition/table-of-contents.md
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#### {6} Ambassador Notes ####
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Jimmy Sjölund writes:
"I'm giving a talk at the Agila Sverige event, May 30 through 31, on the
case study I covered in the _Open Organization Workbook_ [1]."
[1]
https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/11/transparency-collaboration-basefarm
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Jen Kelchner writes:
"On LinkedIn, I tested using the 'Publish' feature to add my full
Opensource.com articles. It required adding an image and laying out the
blog page (essentially a cut and paste with minimal tweaking). At the
end of the post, I added a sentence with links: "Follow my Open
Organization column—In The Open—and on Twitter." It has yielded traffic,
comments, likes, shares and new connections (of quality). Also LI's
analytics will show you the role of the person who views and other very
helpful info. I'm going to use this insight to build my next level of
articles around it to tailor to a responsive audience. Hoping to get my
backlog of articles added to my new 'blog' section on LI. I'd encourage
my fellow ambassadors to give it a go—it will help with awareness of our
work and add thought leadership credibility."
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{'Til next time!—BB}
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