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Jono Bacon

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Jono Bacon is a leading community strategy, management, and execution author, consultant, and speaker.

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2025 1

  1. Unlocking the Secrets to Effective Community Engagement

2024 9

  1. The Unsung Hero: Open Source Community Manager
  2. Boost Online Community Growth with the Bucket Strategy
  3. Community Strategy & Management with CRM Tools
  4. Decoding Community Metrics: Data-Driven Growth Strategies
  5. 8 Essential Social Media Tips: Insights from Stateshift
  6. Boost Your Slack and Discord Community Engagement: Tactics and the ‘Awkward Small Talk Pattern’
  7. Online & Open Source Community Management: Simplified Strategies
  8. Rethinking Online Events: Beyond Boring Webinars
  9. Mastering Time Management: Collective Wisdom from Stateshift Members

2023 4

  1. Unlocking the Power of Discord: A DevRel Guide to Boosting Community Engagement
  2. Decoding DevRel: Exploring Job Roles in Developer Relations
  3. What is Developer Relations (DevRel)? A Complete Guide.
  4. Building Community Engagement: Practical Activities, Metrics, and Tips for Success

2022 5

  1. 5 Things I Would Do To Fix Twitter
  2. Should you use Facebook Groups for Your Community?
  3. How Developers Stay up to Date in 2022
  4. How Developers Consume Content in 2022
  5. How to Deal with Internet Trolls

2021 15

  1. Dean Baratta On Intelligence and Security
  2. Sam Aaron On Live Coding Music
  3. David Spinks on Building Communities
  4. David Jenyns on Building Amazing Business Systems
  5. How to Track Link Clicks With UTM codes
  6. Christina Voskoglou on Understanding Developers With Data
  7. Six Key Lessons from the Fitbit Community
  8. Slack vs. Forums: How to Choose
  9. Nine Critical Best Practices for YouTube Success
  10. Jillian Hufnagel on Building Culture and Growth in Teams
  11. How to Spot Trends in Blog Content That Boost Traffic
  12. How to Have an Executive Session With Yourself
  13. How to Design an Effective Audience for Your Content
  14. How to Nail Your Headline, Title, and Subject Line
  15. Michael Zipursky on Building an Incredible Consulting Business

2020 44

  1. Lane Shackleton on Design, Product, and Coda
  2. Allan Dib on Delivering Thoughtful Marketing
  3. Mark Shuttleworth on Life, Business, and Ubuntu
  4. Ian Tien on Mattermost, Messaging, and Building a Business
  5. 5 Reasons Why People Are Not Joining Your Community (and How To Fix Them)
  6. John Vrionis on a New Approach to Venture Capital and Building Businesses
  7. 5 Steps for Forming New Habits (and What to Do When You Want to Quit)
  8. How to Start a Brand New Online Community, Even Without Technical Experience
  9. Announcing The ‘People Powered’ Book Club
  10. How to Reward Community Members, Even Without a Huge Budget
  11. Catherine Gray on Enneagrams, Personality Tests, and Leadership Development
  12. David Hornik on the People and Culture of Venture Capital and Startups
  13. Bitesize: Emily Musil Church from XPRIZE on using Field Trials
  14. Bitesize: Liz McCabe from Stinson Advising reviews the common difficulties many executives have
  15. Marik Hazan on Psychedelics and Venture Capital
  16. Mike Dillard on Effective Marketing, Gurus, and Growth
  17. Redemption: My Community Management Career Mistakes (and How To Avoid Them)
  18. Linux Foundation Public Health Launched to Help Fight COVID-19
  19. Alyssa Miller From Snyk on the State of Open Source Security
  20. Your Webinar Landing Page is Probably Broken. Let’s Fix It.
  21. Bitesize: Zach Abbott From ZBiotics Explains How He Used Crowdfunding
  22. How To Do Open Core Well | 6 Recommendations
  23. Bitesize: Jen Wike Huger and Jason Hibbets from opensource.com on Data and Analytics
  24. David Siegel, CEO of Meetup, on the Future of Events and Communities
  25. Bitesize: Jason Warner from GitHub gives his recommendations for getting started in the tech industry
  26. Miller Abel from The Gates Foundation on Building Financial Inclusion With Technology
  27. Bitesize: Todd Lewis from All Things Open on why they became a Certified B Corporation
  28. Bitesize: Kate Drane from Techstars talks about the importance of global support for startups
  29. David Finkel on Work/Life Balance and Staying Focused
  30. Bitesize: Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Discourse and StackOverflow, on platform responsibility
  31. Bitesize: Angela Brown of The Linux Foundation discusses what contributes to the energy of events
  32. Rahul Vohra on Superhuman, Game Theory, and Product/Market Fit
  33. 10 Tips For Rocking Your Zoom Calls
  34. SEO: You Are Doing It All Wrong
  35. Mårten Mickos on Hacker Powered Security and Building Businesses
  36. Dr. Diane Hamilton on Understanding The Role Of Curiosity In Our Lives
  37. Exploring Conference Session Design: The ‘Combo Session’ Approach
  38. ‘People Powered’ Wins at Business Book Awards
  39. Vanilla Webinar on Tuesday 7th April 2020 (and Free Books)
  40. Liz McCabe on Executive Coaching, Leadership, and Growth
  41. Announcing the Community Access Bootcamp
  42. Jen Wike Huger and Jason Hibbets on Building the Community Powered opensource.com
  43. New Piece on Community as a Competitive Advantage For Harvard Business Review
  44. Zach Abbott on Hacking Probiotics to Cure Hangovers, powered by Crowdfunding and Business

2019 28

  1. Angela Brown from The Linux Foundation on Delivering Great Events
  2. Reddit Ask Me Anything: Wednesday Nov 20th 2019
  3. Jason Warner on GitHub and Leadership
  4. Mary Thengvall on Developer Relations, Reporting, and Growth
  5. Announcing ‘People Powered’ Bulk Packages (w/ included 1-on-1 Webinars and Directed Learning)
  6. Talking About Communities and ‘People Powered’ with Leo Laporte
  7. Jeff Atwood on Discourse, Stack Overflow, and Building Online Community Platforms
  8. People Powered Voices: Whitney Bouck, COO of HelloSign
  9. Announcing my new book: ‘People Powered: How communities can supercharge your business, brand, and teams’
  10. Please Vote! Hack The Network Effect: Customers to Contributors
  11. Ryan Bethencourt on Growing Sustainable Food, Shark Tank, and Wild Earth
  12. Emily Musil Church on the Global Learning XPRIZE
  13. Kate Drane, Techstars
  14. Todd Lewis, Founder of All Things Open
  15. It Ain’t All About Sign-Ups, Strangers Are People Too
  16. An Example Of Open Source Community Engagement Done Well
  17. Open Source Won’t Save A Subpar Product
  18. Career Guidance For Young People: A Retrospective
  19. How to Track Community Growth in Forums
  20. CommunityBridge by the Linux Foundation: Digging In
  21. Imposter Syndrome: Understanding and Managing It
  22. Forbes Piece: Six Hallmarks of Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns
  23. The Gin Map
  24. Mimicry: Use It To Be a Better Leader
  25. How To Rock The Call For Papers And Get Your Talk Picked
  26. Remote Working Survival Guide
  27. Video: 10 Avoidable Community Management Mistakes
  28. Using The ‘IKEA Effect’ To Improve Collaboration

2018 24

  1. Lego, Blocks, and Better User Interfaces
  2. 10 Ways To Up Your Public Speaking Game
  3. Speaking Engagements in Tel Aviv in December
  4. Forbes Piece: The Five Ways Peloton Weave Community and Content Beautifully
  5. Interview with Matt Keller about the Global Learning XPRIZE Progress, Finalists, and Field Trials
  6. Video: 10 Avoidable Career Mistakes (and How to Conquer Them)
  7. My Clients Are Hiring Community Roles: Corelight, Scality, and Solace
  8. Linus, His Apology, And Why We Should Support Him
  9. Design The Bacon Family Crest
  10. ZBiotics Crowdfunding Campaign Launched
  11. Video: How to Manage and Work With Difficult Personalities
  12. Community Leadership Summit Recap and Pictures
  13. Video: Interview About the Evolution and Professionalization of Community Management
  14. Video: Building Community Leadership: A Guide
  15. Video: Effective Project Management (Without Sucking)
  16. Closed Source and Ethics: Good, Bad, Or Ugly?
  17. Video: How to Manage Failure and Poor Decisions – A Practical Guide
  18. Open Collaboration Conference (at Open Source Summit) Call For Papers
  19. Keeping Governance Simple and Uncomplicated
  20. Moltin Secures $8m Series A and New CEO, Jamus Driscoll
  21. Case Study: Building Product, Community, and, Sustainability at Fractal Audio Systems
  22. Dealing With Difficult Community Members (Interview on Late Night Linux)
  23. Open Collaboration Conference CFP Now Open
  24. Happy Birthday, Stuart 2018

2017 28

  1. The $150 Personal Development Kit
  2. Video: Organizational Community Strategy, Innersource, Consulting, and More
  3. Joining Moltin Advisory Board
  4. Video: ‘Smart Incentives’ Keynote Available
  5. Henry Rollins Interview: Full Transcript
  6. The Risks of Unsolicited and Automated Engagement
  7. The Value of Failure and Feedback: A Guide
  8. Sous Vide For Nerds (With Limited Cooking Experience)
  9. Joining the data.world Advisory Board
  10. Video: Measuring Community Health
  11. Clarification: Snappy and Flatpak
  12. Consolidating the Linux Desktop App Story: An Idea
  13. Open Community Conference: Updates, CFP, Webinar, and Prizes
  14. Optimizing On-Ramps, Community Strategy, and On-Boarding
  15. Innersource: A Guide to the What, Why, and How
  16. Don’t Use Bots to Engage With People on Social Media
  17. Interview with Jeff Atwood on Building Communities
  18. What is IT culture? Today’s leaders need to know
  19. Work Smarter: The Cocktail of Simplicity, Manageable Adversity, and Muntzing
  20. The Importance of Validation and Decay In Community Reputation Metrics
  21. Google Home: An Insight Into a 4-Year-Old’s Mind
  22. Open Community Conference CFP Closes This Week
  23. Anonymous Open Source Projects
  24. Canonical Refocus
  25. My Move to ProsperWorks CRM and Feature Requests
  26. Community Leadership Summit 2017: 6th – 7th May in Austin
  27. HackerOne Professional, Free for Open Source Projects
  28. Endless Code and Mission Hardware Demo

2016 45

  1. Recommendations Requested: Building a Smart Home
  2. Building Better Teams With Asynchronous Workflow
  3. Luma Giveaway Winner – Garrett Nay
  4. Microsoft and Open Source: A New Era?
  5. 2017 Community Leadership Events: An Update
  6. Luma Wifi Review and Giveaway
  7. All Things Open Next Week – MCing, Talks, and More
  8. Bacon Roundup – 28th September 2016
  9. Looking for a data.world Director of Community
  10. Looking For Talent For ClusterHQ
  11. The Psychology of Report/Issue Templates
  12. My Reddit AMA Is Live – Join Us
  13. Linux, Linus, Bradley, and Open Source Protection
  14. Join my Reddit AMA Tomorrow
  15. Social Media: 10 Ways To Not Screw It Up
  16. Opening Up Data Science with data.world
  17. Join My Reddit AMA – 30th August 2016 at 9am Pacific
  18. Running a Hackathon for Security Hackers
  19. My Blog is Creative Commons Licensed
  20. Speaking at Abstractions
  21. The Bacon Travel Survival Guide
  22. 10 Lessons Learned in Training Knowledge Workers
  23. Bacon Roundup
  24. The Risks of Over-Rewarding Communities
  25. Audio Interview: On Building Communities, Careers, and Traversing Challenges
  26. Hack The World
  27. Reducing Texting and Driving: An Idea
  28. Scratch Community Manager Position Available
  29. Building a Safer Internet with HackerOne
  30. Announcing Jono Bacon Consulting
  31. Moving on From GitHub
  32. Kindness and Community
  33. Dan Ariely on Building More Human Technology, Data, Artificial Intelligence, and More
  34. Mycroft and Building a Future of Open Artificial Intelligence
  35. Going Large on Medium
  36. Upcoming Speaking at Interop and Abstractions
  37. Community Leadership Summit 2016
  38. Suggestions for Donating a Speaker fee
  39. Supporting Beep Beep Yarr!
  40. The Hybrid Desktop
  41. Happy Birthday, Stuart
  42. Heading Out To linux.conf.au
  43. SCALE14x Plans
  44. We Need Your Answers
  45. Bad Voltage Live in Los Angeles: Why You Should Be There

2015 31

  1. In Memory of Ian Murdock
  2. Why You Should Go To UbuCon in Los Angeles in January
  3. Recommendations For New Runners
  4. Perceptions and Methods of Good Customer Service
  5. Supporting Software Freedom Conservancy
  6. Atom: My New Favorite Code Editor
  7. Blogging, Podcasting, or Video?
  8. An Experiment In Reviving Dead Open Source Projects
  9. All Things Open Keynote, Talks, Book Signing and More
  10. Goodbye XPRIZE, Hello GitHub
  11. What LibreOffice Impress Needs To Rock
  12. Free Beer, Prizes, and Bad Voltage in Fulda Tonight!
  13. Bad Voltage Live in Germany: 30th Sep 2015
  14. Go and back the Mycroft Kickstarter campaign
  15. Ubuntu, Canonical, and IP
  16. Talking with a Mythbuster and a Maker
  17. Rebasing Ubuntu on Android?
  18. New Forbes Column: From Piracy to Prosperity
  19. #ISupportCommunity
  20. Announcing Chimp Foot.
  21. Open Source, Makers, and Innovators
  22. Bobbing for Influence
  23. Video Phone Review and Wider Thoughts
  24. Bad Voltage: Live @ SCALE13x
  25. Designers Needed to Help Build Software to Teach Kids Literacy
  26. Global Learning XPRIZE: Call For Teams!
  27. Bridging Marketing and Community
  28. Your new Community Manager Hire: 5 Areas to Focus on
  29. Discourse: Saving forums from themselves
  30. Announcing the Community Leadership Summit 2015!
  31. Bad Voltage and Ubuntu