Blog Archives

2024

• Boost Online Community Growth with the Bucket Strategy (0)
• Community Strategy & Management with CRM Tools (0)
• Decoding Community Metrics: Data-Driven Growth Strategies (0)
• 8 Essential Social Media Tips: Insights from the Community Leadership Core (0)
• Boost Your Slack and Discord Community Engagement: Tactics and the ‘Awkward Small Talk Pattern’ (0)
• Online & Open Source Community Management: Simplified Strategies (0)
• Rethinking Online Events: Beyond Boring Webinars (0)
• Mastering Time Management: Collective Wisdom from Community Leadership Core Members (0)

2023

• Unlocking the Power of Discord: A DevRel Guide to Boosting Community Engagement (0)
• Decoding DevRel: Exploring Job Roles in Developer Relations (0)
• What is Developer Relations (DevRel)? A Complete Guide. (0)
• Building Community Engagement: Practical Activities, Metrics, and Tips for Success (0)

2022

• 5 Things I Would Do To Fix Twitter (0)
• Should you use Facebook Groups for Your Community? (0)
• How Developers Stay up to Date in 2022 (0)
• How Developers Consume Content in 2022 (0)
• How to Deal with Internet Trolls (0)

2021

• Dean Baratta On Intelligence and Security (0)
• Sam Aaron On Live Coding Music (0)
• David Spinks on Building Communities (0)
• David Jenyns on Building Amazing Business Systems (0)
• How to Track Link Clicks With UTM codes (0)
• Christina Voskoglou on Understanding Developers With Data (0)
• Six Key Lessons from the Fitbit Community (0)
• Slack vs. Forums: How to Choose (0)
• Nine Critical Best Practices for YouTube Success (0)
• Jillian Hufnagel on Building Culture and Growth in Teams (0)
• How to Spot Trends in Blog Content That Boost Traffic (0)
• How to Have an Executive Session With Yourself (0)
• How to Design an Effective Audience for Your Content (0)
• How to Nail Your Headline, Title, and Subject Line (0)
• Michael Zipursky on Building an Incredible Consulting Business (0)

2020

• Lane Shackleton on Design, Product, and Coda (0)
• Allan Dib on Delivering Thoughtful Marketing (0)
• Mark Shuttleworth on Life, Business, and Ubuntu (0)
• Ian Tien on Mattermost, Messaging, and Building a Business (0)
• 5 Reasons Why People Are Not Joining Your Community (and How To Fix Them) (0)
• John Vrionis on a New Approach to Venture Capital and Building Businesses (0)
• 5 Steps for Forming New Habits (and What to Do When You Want to Quit) (0)
• How to Start a Brand New Online Community, Even Without Technical Experience (0)
• Announcing The ‘People Powered’ Book Club (0)
• How to Reward Community Members, Even Without a Huge Budget (0)
• Catherine Gray on Enneagrams, Personality Tests, and Leadership Development (0)
• David Hornik on the People and Culture of Venture Capital and Startups (0)
• Bitesize: Emily Musil Church from XPRIZE on using Field Trials (0)
• Bitesize: Liz McCabe from Stinson Advising reviews the common difficulties many executives have (0)
• Marik Hazan on Psychedelics and Venture Capital (0)
• Mike Dillard on Effective Marketing, Gurus, and Growth (0)
• Redemption: My Community Management Career Mistakes (and How To Avoid Them) (0)
• Linux Foundation Public Health Launched to Help Fight COVID-19 (0)
• Alyssa Miller From Snyk on the State of Open Source Security (0)
• Your Webinar Landing Page is Probably Broken. Let’s Fix It. (0)
• Bitesize: Zach Abbott From ZBiotics Explains How He Used Crowdfunding (0)
• How To Do Open Core Well | 6 Recommendations (0)
• Bitesize: Jen Wike Huger and Jason Hibbets from opensource.com on Data and Analytics (0)
• David Siegel, CEO of Meetup, on the Future of Events and Communities (0)
• Bitesize: Jason Warner from GitHub gives his recommendations for getting started in the tech industry (0)
• Miller Abel from The Gates Foundation on Building Financial Inclusion With Technology (0)
• Bitesize: Todd Lewis from All Things Open on why they became a Certified B Corporation (0)
• Bitesize: Kate Drane from Techstars talks about the importance of global support for startups (0)
• David Finkel on Work/Life Balance and Staying Focused (0)
• Bitesize: Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Discourse and StackOverflow, on platform responsibility (0)
• Bitesize: Angela Brown of The Linux Foundation discusses what contributes to the energy of events (0)
• Rahul Vohra on Superhuman, Game Theory, and Product/Market Fit (0)
• 10 Tips For Rocking Your Zoom Calls (0)
• SEO: You Are Doing It All Wrong (0)
• Mårten Mickos on Hacker Powered Security and Building Businesses (0)
• Dr. Diane Hamilton on Understanding The Role Of Curiosity In Our Lives (0)
• Exploring Conference Session Design: The ‘Combo Session’ Approach (0)
• ‘People Powered’ Wins at Business Book Awards (0)
• Vanilla Webinar on Tuesday 7th April 2020 (and Free Books) (0)
• Liz McCabe on Executive Coaching, Leadership, and Growth (0)
• Announcing the Community Access Bootcamp (0)
• Jen Wike Huger and Jason Hibbets on Building the Community Powered opensource.com (0)
• New Piece on Community as a Competitive Advantage For Harvard Business Review (0)
• Zach Abbott on Hacking Probiotics to Cure Hangovers, powered by Crowdfunding and Business (0)

2019

• Angela Brown from The Linux Foundation on Delivering Great Events (0)
• Reddit Ask Me Anything: Wednesday Nov 20th 2019 (0)
• Jason Warner on GitHub and Leadership (0)
• Mary Thengvall on Developer Relations, Reporting, and Growth (0)
• Announcing ‘People Powered’ Bulk Packages (w/ included 1-on-1 Webinars and Directed Learning) (1)
• Talking About Communities and ‘People Powered’ with Leo Laporte (2)
• Jeff Atwood on Discourse, Stack Overflow, and Building Online Community Platforms (2)
• People Powered Voices: Whitney Bouck, COO of HelloSign (0)
• Announcing my new book: ‘People Powered: How communities can supercharge your business, brand, and teams’ (0)
• Please Vote! Hack The Network Effect: Customers to Contributors (0)
• Ryan Bethencourt on Growing Sustainable Food, Shark Tank, and Wild Earth (0)
• Emily Musil Church on the Global Learning XPRIZE (2)
• Kate Drane, Techstars (0)
• Todd Lewis, Founder of All Things Open (0)
• It Ain’t All About Sign-Ups, Strangers Are People Too (1)
• An Example Of Open Source Community Engagement Done Well (0)
• Open Source Won’t Save A Subpar Product (1)
• Career Guidance For Young People: A Retrospective (2)
• How to Track Community Growth in Forums (1)
• CommunityBridge by the Linux Foundation: Digging In (4)
• Imposter Syndrome: Understanding and Managing It (5)
• Forbes Piece: Six Hallmarks of Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns (0)
• The Gin Map (4)
• Mimicry: Use It To Be a Better Leader (2)
• How To Rock The Call For Papers And Get Your Talk Picked (8)
• Remote Working Survival Guide (3)
• Video: 10 Avoidable Community Management Mistakes (2)
• Using The ‘IKEA Effect’ To Improve Collaboration (3)

2018

• Lego, Blocks, and Better User Interfaces (0)
• 10 Ways To Up Your Public Speaking Game (8)
• Speaking Engagements in Tel Aviv in December (1)
• Forbes Piece: The Five Ways Peloton Weave Community and Content Beautifully (0)
• Interview with Matt Keller about the Global Learning XPRIZE Progress, Finalists, and Field Trials (0)
• Video: 10 Avoidable Career Mistakes (and How to Conquer Them) (3)
• My Clients Are Hiring Community Roles: Corelight, Scality, and Solace (1)
• Linus, His Apology, And Why We Should Support Him (21)
• Design The Bacon Family Crest (1)
• ZBiotics Crowdfunding Campaign Launched (0)
• Video: How to Manage and Work With Difficult Personalities (2)
• Community Leadership Summit Recap and Pictures (3)
• Video: Interview About the Evolution and Professionalization of Community Management (0)
• Video: Building Community Leadership: A Guide (3)
• Video: Effective Project Management (Without Sucking) (2)
• Closed Source and Ethics: Good, Bad, Or Ugly? (8)
• Video: How to Manage Failure and Poor Decisions – A Practical Guide (0)
• Open Collaboration Conference (at Open Source Summit) Call For Papers (2)
• Keeping Governance Simple and Uncomplicated (3)
• Moltin Secures $8m Series A and New CEO, Jamus Driscoll (0)
• Case Study: Building Product, Community, and, Sustainability at Fractal Audio Systems (1)
• Dealing With Difficult Community Members (Interview on Late Night Linux) (0)
• Open Collaboration Conference CFP Now Open (4)
• Happy Birthday, Stuart 2018 (0)

2017

• The $150 Personal Development Kit (2)
• Video: Organizational Community Strategy, Innersource, Consulting, and More (1)
• Joining Moltin Advisory Board (2)
• Video: ‘Smart Incentives’ Keynote Available (1)
• Henry Rollins Interview: Full Transcript (1)
• The Risks of Unsolicited and Automated Engagement (4)
• The Value of Failure and Feedback: A Guide (2)
• Sous Vide For Nerds (With Limited Cooking Experience) (0)
• Joining the data.world Advisory Board (0)
• Video: Measuring Community Health (2)
• Clarification: Snappy and Flatpak (7)
• Consolidating the Linux Desktop App Story: An Idea (37)
• Open Community Conference: Updates, CFP, Webinar, and Prizes (3)
• Optimizing On-Ramps, Community Strategy, and On-Boarding (1)
• Innersource: A Guide to the What, Why, and How (4)
• Don’t Use Bots to Engage With People on Social Media (6)
• Interview with Jeff Atwood on Building Communities (2)
• What is IT culture? Today’s leaders need to know (0)
• Work Smarter: The Cocktail of Simplicity, Manageable Adversity, and Muntzing (4)
• The Importance of Validation and Decay In Community Reputation Metrics (3)
• Google Home: An Insight Into a 4-Year-Old’s Mind (13)
• Open Community Conference CFP Closes This Week (1)
• Anonymous Open Source Projects (8)
• Canonical Refocus (7)
• My Move to ProsperWorks CRM and Feature Requests (1)
• Community Leadership Summit 2017: 6th – 7th May in Austin (2)
• HackerOne Professional, Free for Open Source Projects (5)
• Endless Code and Mission Hardware Demo (1)

2016

• Recommendations Requested: Building a Smart Home (17)
• Building Better Teams With Asynchronous Workflow (7)
• Luma Giveaway Winner – Garrett Nay (1)
• Microsoft and Open Source: A New Era? (11)
• 2017 Community Leadership Events: An Update (1)
• Luma Wifi Review and Giveaway (10)
• All Things Open Next Week – MCing, Talks, and More (2)
• Bacon Roundup – 28th September 2016 (0)
• Looking for a data.world Director of Community (0)
• Looking For Talent For ClusterHQ (0)
• The Psychology of Report/Issue Templates (1)
• My Reddit AMA Is Live – Join Us (0)
• Linux, Linus, Bradley, and Open Source Protection (31)
• Join my Reddit AMA Tomorrow (0)
• Social Media: 10 Ways To Not Screw It Up (5)
• Opening Up Data Science with data.world (3)
• Join My Reddit AMA – 30th August 2016 at 9am Pacific (0)
• Running a Hackathon for Security Hackers (2)
• My Blog is Creative Commons Licensed (0)
• Speaking at Abstractions (0)
• The Bacon Travel Survival Guide (26)
• 10 Lessons Learned in Training Knowledge Workers (2)
• Bacon Roundup (1)
• The Risks of Over-Rewarding Communities (8)
• Audio Interview: On Building Communities, Careers, and Traversing Challenges (1)
• Hack The World (0)
• Reducing Texting and Driving: An Idea (6)
• Scratch Community Manager Position Available (0)
• Building a Safer Internet with HackerOne (0)
• Announcing Jono Bacon Consulting (3)
• Moving on From GitHub (9)
• Kindness and Community (3)
• Dan Ariely on Building More Human Technology, Data, Artificial Intelligence, and More (0)
• Mycroft and Building a Future of Open Artificial Intelligence (1)
• Going Large on Medium (0)
• Upcoming Speaking at Interop and Abstractions (0)
• Community Leadership Summit 2016 (0)
• Suggestions for Donating a Speaker fee (3)
• Supporting Beep Beep Yarr! (0)
• The Hybrid Desktop (34)
• Happy Birthday, Stuart (0)
• Heading Out To linux.conf.au (0)
• SCALE14x Plans (1)
• We Need Your Answers (0)
• Bad Voltage Live in Los Angeles: Why You Should Be There (0)

2015

• In Memory of Ian Murdock (0)
• Why You Should Go To UbuCon in Los Angeles in January (2)
• Recommendations For New Runners (9)
• Perceptions and Methods of Good Customer Service (6)
• Supporting Software Freedom Conservancy (2)
• Atom: My New Favorite Code Editor (32)
• Blogging, Podcasting, or Video? (3)
• An Experiment In Reviving Dead Open Source Projects (14)
• All Things Open Keynote, Talks, Book Signing and More (0)
• Goodbye XPRIZE, Hello GitHub (5)
• What LibreOffice Impress Needs To Rock (11)
• Free Beer, Prizes, and Bad Voltage in Fulda Tonight! (0)
• Bad Voltage Live in Germany: 30th Sep 2015 (0)
• Go and back the Mycroft Kickstarter campaign (0)
• Ubuntu, Canonical, and IP (174)
• Talking with a Mythbuster and a Maker (0)
• Rebasing Ubuntu on Android? (76)
• New Forbes Column: From Piracy to Prosperity (2)
• #ISupportCommunity (9)
• Announcing Chimp Foot. (0)
• Open Source, Makers, and Innovators (0)
• Bobbing for Influence (2)
• Video Phone Review and Wider Thoughts (7)
• Bad Voltage: Live @ SCALE13x (1)
• Designers Needed to Help Build Software to Teach Kids Literacy (1)
• Global Learning XPRIZE: Call For Teams! (1)
• Bridging Marketing and Community (2)
• Your new Community Manager Hire: 5 Areas to Focus on (7)
• Discourse: Saving forums from themselves (18)
• Announcing the Community Leadership Summit 2015! (1)
• Bad Voltage and Ubuntu (1)