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Magic Quadrant identifies leaders in WAN Optimization
Virtualization, cloud services, and growing volumes of distributed data have pushed network demands to an all-time high. Download this latest Gartner report on WAN Optimization to guide your...
About Jono Bacon
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Jono Bacon is an award-winning community manager, author and consultant.
He currently works at Canonical Ltd as the Community Manager for Ubuntu, one of the largest Open Source projects in the world, with a diverse community of thousands of contributors. He is a respected and acknowledged leader in Open Source, community management and and best practise, the author of popular Art Of Community by O'Reilly and the founder of the annual Community Leadership Summit; an unconference that brings community managers and leaders together to share strategy and best practice.
He has written four books and more than 500 articles published across 15 magazines and online publications. Bacon has also acted as an extensive consultant working with a range of organizations and as a senior Open Source consultant in his previous role at OpenAdvantage; the award-winning UK government funded service advising organizations, government, and educational establishments in how they could utilize Open Source and build a strong and vibrant community.
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Jono Bacon
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Jono Bacon
He currently works at Canonical Ltd as the Community Manager for Ubuntu, one of the largest Open Source projects in the world, with a diverse community of thousands of contributors. He is a respected and acknowledged leader in Open Source, community management and and best practise, the author of popular Art Of Community by O'Reilly and the founder of the annual Community Leadership Summit; an unconference that brings community managers and leaders together to share strategy and best practice.
He has written four books and more than 500 articles published across 15 magazines and online publications. Bacon has also acted as an extensive consultant working with a range of organizations and as a senior Open Source consultant in his previous role at OpenAdvantage; the award-winning UK government funded service advising organizations, government, and educational establishments in how they could utilize Open Source and build a strong and vibrant community.
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Avoiding resource fetishism: It's about workflow, not tools
Don't be drawn into installing every wiki, CMS, bug tracker, issue tracker, source control system, CRM, collaborative notebad, micro-blogging service, social media application and other such gizmo...
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Laying structure down in your community
One of the challenges that every community faces, particularly teams inside a larger community, is the ability to coordinate what goals and ambitions the team is going to work on. Traditionally...
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Raging The Social Media Machine
Since 1952, The United Kingdom has made one hell of a deal about the Christmas Number One. The idea is simple: every week music its ranked by sales, and in the week building up to Christmas the...
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Unchaining the opportunistic programmer
Opportunistic programmers are typically not interested in writing large office suites, web browsers and email programs. Instead, they like writing small, fun and useful little programs. Thanks to...
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Communitizing the community with community tools
With this game of social interaction, some tools can be hugely helpful in helping to grow your community, and I want to highlight many of the tools I use regularly in my own community work.
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Community meetings: Rock not ramble
Unfortunately when many communities set up shop they make one particularly common mistake: they focus too heavily on the medium as opposed to the approach.
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Not tolerating the intolerant
Whether you are involved in open source, free culture, digital rights, social change or green issues, community forms when people with drive and passion for an ethos share their ideas and...
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Failure as a springboard to success
Failure should also be embraced in your communities. We admire leaders who are humble, honest and frank, and we grumble about leaders who are defensive and abrasive. Be the former, and your...
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Facebook smells like bacon, Twitter like roses
A new gadget, 'Olly', translates social network notifications in to different scents.
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Podcast: Frugal Tech Show with Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon
Ken Hess and Jason Perlow interview Jono Bacon, Canonical's Ubuntu Community Manager about the upcoming 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" release.
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Is Microsoft betting on Media Center to save its Windows slate bacon?
I've heard recurring rumors that Microsoft might develop its own optional "shell" for slate makers that would make Windows 7 touch-centric than touch-additive. But maybe Microsoft is simply going...
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Avoiding resource fetishism: It's about workflow, not tools
Don't be drawn into installing every wiki, CMS, bug tracker, issue tracker, source control system, CRM, collaborative notebad, micro-blogging service, social media application and other such gizmo...
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Laying structure down in your community
One of the challenges that every community faces, particularly teams inside a larger community, is the ability to coordinate what goals and ambitions the team is going to work on. Traditionally...
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Raging The Social Media Machine
Since 1952, The United Kingdom has made one hell of a deal about the Christmas Number One. The idea is simple: every week music its ranked by sales, and in the week building up to Christmas the...
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Unchaining the opportunistic programmer
Opportunistic programmers are typically not interested in writing large office suites, web browsers and email programs. Instead, they like writing small, fun and useful little programs. Thanks to...
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Communitizing the community with community tools
With this game of social interaction, some tools can be hugely helpful in helping to grow your community, and I want to highlight many of the tools I use regularly in my own community work.
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Community meetings: Rock not ramble
Unfortunately when many communities set up shop they make one particularly common mistake: they focus too heavily on the medium as opposed to the approach.
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Happy hardware: tech lobbyist brings home the bacon
Fed money goes for energy and water industries to get more efficient.
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Not tolerating the intolerant
Whether you are involved in open source, free culture, digital rights, social change or green issues, community forms when people with drive and passion for an ethos share their ideas and...
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Failure as a springboard to success
Failure should also be embraced in your communities. We admire leaders who are humble, honest and frank, and we grumble about leaders who are defensive and abrasive. Be the former, and your...
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