The Art of Community 2nd Edition Update

by on January 25, 2012 in Book Updates

I just wanted to provide a quick update about the second edition of The Art of Community and the progress that is being made.

After a fast and furious month of writing and editing, the two new chapters (Managing and Tracking Work and Social Media) are now completed. I have also been through and added a number of additional chunks of extra content and information throughout the book. Some highlights include:

  • In Chapter 2 we now also discuss methods of generating revenue to financially support your community.
  • Additions to Chapter 7 for how to coordinate event attendance, create effective presentations, and deliver great talks.
  • Discussion in Chapter 8 about how to react to community concerns in a structured and feedback-orientated way.
  • I added a number of additional conflict and relationship scenarios to Chapter 11 and how to handle them.
  • A significant new addition to Chapter 12 for how to create a community summit, using the Ubuntu Developer Summit as an outline.

Finally, I now have 12 interviews that are part of the new Community Casebook chapter. I will be announcing each of these interviews in a dedicated news story here on artofcommunityonline.org over the coming weeks. The interviews are absolutely fascinating and provide great lessons and stories in the book.

Right now I am finalizing the content and then on the 15th Feb the book will go to O’Reilly for copy-editing and will go through the entire book with a fine-tooth comb to ensure everything is looking solid.

In the meantime I am also starting to put together the press plan for publicizing the second edition. If you are a journalist who would like to cover the book, please get in touch with me.

Be sure to keep up to date with The Art of Community on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+.

More soon!

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Second Edition Community Interviews: Mary Colvig, Mozilla

by on January 3, 2012 in Uncategorized

Joining Linus Torvalds (creator of Linux), Mike Shinoda (creator of Linkin Park), Tim O’Reilly (founder of O’Reilly Media), Jimmy Wales (co-founder of Wikipedia), Mårten Mickos (former MySQL CEO, current Eucalyptus CEO), Mike Linksvayer (VP of Creative Commons), and Mark Bussler (founder of Classic Game Room), I am pleased to announce the next interview I will be featuring in the second edition of The Art of Community.

Mary Colvig started life at Mozilla in a PR role before moving on to lead the PR team and work as a community manager for the Firefox, Spread Firefox, and other related communities. She has seen the growth of the Firefox community since it started and has provided a facinating interview for the second edition of The Art of Community that touches on how the community has scaled up, the relationship between the commercial and community entities of Mozilla, and how Mozilla has worked with the community to grow and retain their enthusiasm to bring more and more value to Firefox.

I look forward to sharing Mary’s interview with you all in the second edition of The Art of Community!

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Second Edition Community Interviews: Mark Bussler, Classic Game Room

by on January 2, 2012 in Book Updates

Joining Linus Torvalds (creator of Linux), Mike Shinoda (creator of Linkin Park), Tim O’Reilly (founder of O’Reilly Media), Jimmy Wales (co-founder of Wikipedia), Mårten Mickos (former MySQL CEO, current Eucalyptus CEO), and Mike Linksvayer (VP of Creative Commons), I am pleased to announce the next interview I will be featuring in the second edition of The Art of Community.

Veteran filmmaker and game journalist Mark Bussler is the executive producer, director and head writer for the Classic Game Room (CGR) video game review show and series of videos which debuted in 1999 and have aired on YouTube since February 2008. Classic Game Room now boasts a family of channels with over 315 million video views and hundreds of thousands of subscribers. Fans that enjoy Bussler’s laid-back and entertaining look at modern and retro video games connect with the show through the CGR web site and social media outlets such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

Originally launched in 1999, Classic Game Room was the first classic video game review show on the Internet and developed a cult following before its cancellation in late 2000 due lack to of funding. During the years between the show’s original cancellation and its relaunch on YouTube, Bussler produced and directed numerous feature documentaries for DVD, HDTV and television.

Mark has provided a facinating interview, and I look forward to sharing it with you all in the second edition of The Art of Community!

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The Art of Community Video Update #3

by on December 14, 2011 in Book Updates, Videos

The third episode in the series of updates about the writing process for the Second Edition of The Art of Community is now available. See it below:

Can’t see it? Watch it here.

This episode talks about the two new chapters, the range of different interviews included in the second edition (Linus Torvalds, Mike Shinoda, Tim O’Reilly, Jimmy Wales, Mike Linksvayer, Mårten Mickos and more), the new additions to the events chapter and more. Enjoy!

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Community Management Crib Notes: A New Era Of Community Management

by on December 13, 2011 in Community, Videos

Tonight I recorded and put on my YouTube Channel a presentation that I delivered at OSCON earlier this year called A New Era Of Community Management. I cover the history of community management, it’s early leaders, and how the science of understanding and growing community is changing with the advent of new technologies, social norms, and cultural challenges. I also cover the direct business opportunities for harnessing this new science, and some of the risks and pitfalls associated with it.

You can watch it below:

Can’t see it? Watch it here.

You can also see the other Community Management Crib Notes videos:

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