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Liz McCabe on Executive Coaching, Leadership, and Growth

by Jono Bacon | Mar 12, 2020 | Conversations With Bacon

Coaching is a strange and interesting concept to most people. We often hear about executives hiring coaches, and many of them rave how about how useful they are, but what do coaches really do? Why is it so valuable? What kind of insight to coaches provide, and could...

Jen Wike Huger and Jason Hibbets on Building the Community Powered opensource.com

by Jono Bacon | Feb 3, 2020 | Conversations With Bacon

The story of opensource.com is a fascinating one. The goal was simple: create an online magazine, packed with content, tutorials, and news, and focused on open source fans and professionals. The result: millions of page views, and hundreds of articles created by...

Zach Abbott on Hacking Probiotics to Cure Hangovers, powered by Crowdfunding and Business

by Jono Bacon | Jan 13, 2020 | Conversations With Bacon

I know what you are thinking. Probiotics? Those disgusting looking things that are floating in the bottom of Kombucha? Kinda. Zach Abbott and his startup, ZBiotics, has engineered a probiotic that doesn’t just provide relief from a soul-destroying hangover, but...

Angela Brown from The Linux Foundation on Delivering Great Events

by Jono Bacon | Dec 11, 2019 | Conversations With Bacon

Events are a core element of how businesses engaging with the world. Whether you are attending, speaking at, or organizing an event, you need to have your event game down. The question is: what really goes into a great event, and what is the balance of content,...

Jason Warner on GitHub and Leadership

by Jono Bacon | Nov 3, 2019 | Conversations With Bacon

GitHub has seen a startling level of growth. With over 31 million developers spread across 96 million repositories, it has become the quite literal hub for how people build technology (and was recently acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billion). Throughout this...

Mary Thengvall on Developer Relations, Reporting, and Growth

by Jono Bacon | Oct 7, 2019 | Conversations With Bacon

In recent years, developers have become an increasingly important audience for organizations to build relationships with. Not only are developers actively building technology, but they are also often helping to shape decisions inside of businesses that cover product,...