
People Powered
How Communities Can Supercharge Your Business, Brand, and Teams
by Jono Bacon · first published 2019
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You should read the book People Powered by Jono Bacon. Has some really good insights and is a 101 course on exactly this.
on “Ask HN: How are online communities established?” ↗Jono Bacon has a couple books on this: People Powered and Art of Community https://www.jonobacon.com/books/artofcommunity/
on “Ask HN: How do you create a successful community from zero?” ↗I'd start by reading People Powered by Jono Bacon, because it's complicated and typically unique to each project. Documentation is always important, and what I am working on for my own project exclusively right now.
on “Ask HN: How would you build an community around an open-source project in 2021?” ↗re: Building a Community I'd recommend People Powered by Jono Bacon He's running a class this fall too: https://twitter.com/jonobacon/status/1531695011342913536
on “We need better tools for online speech” ↗People Powered is an excellent book on this subject. Much better and deeper than this article.
on “We Need Go-to-Community, Not Just Go-to-Market” ↗…places as possible. GitHub, a form, by email, from both inside and outside the app If you are trying (maybe even if not) to make this a business, checkout https://startupschool.org and https://coss.media People Powered is a good book about community building
on “Ask HN: Best way to get feedback from developers?” ↗…had on the show (and will be releasing the podcasts soon) include: - Gil Yehuda, used to be the Senior Director of Open Source at Verizon Media - Guy Martin, Director at OASIS - Jono Bacon, author of People Powered: How Communities Can Supercharge Your Business, Brand, and Teams - Patrick Masson, used to be the General Manager of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) - Nithya Ruff, Head of Open Source at Comcast -…
on “Show HN: New Podcast: open-source For Business. Learn from worlds #1 OSS experts” ↗