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1 online resource (1 volume (unpaged)) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Contents |
The art of community -- Planning your community -- Communicating clearly -- Processes : simple is sustainable -- Supporting workflow with tools -- Building buzz -- Measuring community -- Governance -- Handling conflict -- Creating and running events -- Hiring a community manager. |
| Summary |
Online communities offer a wide range of opportunities today, whether you're supporting a cause, marketing a product or service, or developing open source software. The Art of Community will help you develop the broad range of talents you need to recruit members to your community, motivate and manage them, and help them become active participants. Author Jono Bacon offers a collection of experiences and observations from his decade-long involvement in building and managing communities, including his current position as manager for Ubuntu, arguably the largest community in open source software. You'll discover how a vibrant community can provide you with a reliable support network, a valuable source of new ideas, and a powerful marketing force. The Art of Community will help you: Develop a strategy, with specific objectives and goals, for building your community Build simple, non-bureaucratic processes to help your community perform tasks, work together, and share successes Provide tools and infrastructure that let contributors work quickly Create buzz around your community to get more people involved Track the community's work so it can be optimized and simplified Explore a capable, representative governance strategy for your community Identify and manage conflict, including dealing with divisive personalities. |
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Electronic villages (Computer networks)
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Online social networks.
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Interactive computer systems -- Social aspects.
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Réseaux sociaux (Internet) |
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Systèmes conversationnels (Informatique) -- Aspect social. |
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Electronic villages (Computer networks) |
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Online social networks. |
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Interactive computer systems -- Social aspects. |
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Electronic villages (Computer networks) |
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Interactive computer systems -- Social aspects |
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Online social networks |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Bacon, Jono. Art of community. 1st ed. Sebastopol, CA : O'Reilly c2009 9780596156718 (OCoLC)318413921 |
| ISBN |
9781449391980 (electronic bk.) |
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1449391982 (electronic bk.) |
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9781449379315 (electronic bk.) |
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1449379311 (electronic bk.) |
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