Today a Package Arrived…
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The Art of Community hits the Kindle
Sent by the always wonderous Mike Basinger: The Art of Community is now available on the Kindle. Kindle fans, go and buy it and don’t forget to review the book!
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Article: Foreword from Andy Oram
Foreword to Conversation and Community
By Andy Oram
My writing colleague Anne Gentle wrote a book called Conversation and Community about how writers on projects could improve documentation and customer experiences by interacting with customers online as part of the work of developing learning materials. Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation was published on August 3, 2009. I was [...]
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Printed Copy Spotted!
A printed copy of The Art of Community spotted at O’Reilly in Cambridge, Mass!
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Another Review Quote
Another rather nice quote to share, this time from Danese Cooper:
“Jono Bacon’s The Art of Community is a wonderful meditation on building communities using modern infrastructure tools and practices gleaned from the Free and Open Source Software movement. Jono’s examples, taken from his work on Ubuntu, give a good picture of a working [...]
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Three More Reviews
Three more reviews of the book, added to the reviews page:
“Jono Bacon has long been an insightful voice for open source community. Now his artful stories, distilling the ethos of organizing people and activities on the net, at conferences, and in our daily routines, provide a framework for successful, community building strategies”. [...]
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Two More Reviews
Two more reviews of The Art Of Community. First from Mark Hinkle:
“Communities are very complex ecosystems of human beings. Cultivating, growing, shaping and guiding the community to make them productive is definitely as much (or even more) art as science. In ‘The Art of Community’ Bacon does an excellent job explaining in detail [...]
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New Review
I am tickled pink to add this new review to the reviews page:
“One thing that’s impressed me about Jono Bacon, something one can notice back when he and others were building a community around their pioneering Linux podcast, is that he simply gets the concept of community. It comes out in most everything [...]
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Chapter 1 Released
Folks, I am proud to announce the release of what is likely to be the final version of the first chapter of The Art Of Community.
In this chapter I lay the foundations of the book, talk through some of the underlying elements around collaboration, belonging, opportunities, the driving forces in community, and set the tone [...]
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Full Chapter 1 Released Tomorrow
Hi everyone, I have some exciting news to report. Tomorrow (Thu 16th July 2009) at 5pm UTC (check your equivalent time here) I will be releasing the likely final version of Chapter 1 from the book, in full! The chapter will be available as a PDF to download and share from artofcommunityonline.org.
The chapter will still [...]
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