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Suggestions for Donating a Speaker fee

by Jono Bacon | Mar 25, 2016 | Free Culture, Free Software, Open Source, Uncategorized

In August I am speaking at Abstractions and the conference organizers very kindly offered to provide a speaker fee. Thing is, I have a job and so I don’t need the fee as much as some other folks in the world. As such, I would like to donate the speaker fee to an...

Go and back the Mycroft Kickstarter campaign

by Jono Bacon | Aug 30, 2015 | Uncategorized

Disclaimer: I am not a member of the Mycroft team, but I think this is neat and an important example of open innovation that needs support. Mycroft is an Open Source, Open Hardware, Open APIs product that you talk to and it provides information and services. It is a...

Talking with a Mythbuster and a Maker

by Jono Bacon | Aug 20, 2015 | Uncategorized

Recently I started writing a column for Forbes. My latest column covers the rise of the maker movement and in it I interviewed Jamie Hyneman from Mythbusters and Dale Dougherty from Make Magazine. Go and give it a read right...

Your new Community Manager Hire: 5 Areas to Focus on

by Jono Bacon | Jan 14, 2015 | Uncategorized

So, you have just hired that new community manager into your organization. Their remit is simple: build a community that wraps around your product/technology/service. You have an idea of what success looks like, but you are also not entirely sure exactly what this new...

Happy Holidays

by Jono Bacon | Dec 24, 2014 | Uncategorized

Just a quick note to wish all of you a happy, restful, and peaceful holidays, however and whoever you spend it with. Take care, folks, and I look forward to seeing you in 2015!

Community Management Training at LinuxCon

by Jono Bacon | Aug 15, 2014 | Uncategorized

I am a firm believer in building strong and empowered communities. We are in an age of a community management renaissance in which we are defining repeatable best practice that can be applied many different types of communities, whether internal to companies, external...