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Open Community Case Study – GoPlow

SocialFish

This post is part of our regular series of Open Community case studies, in which intrepid association blogger and freelance writer Deirdre Reid will be digging into associations (and other kinds of organizations when relevant) who are living and breathing their open communities in the ways we describe in the book.

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How To Organize A Brand Hackathon (And Why) – Interview With Betabrand’s Chris Lindland

The Realtime Report

. “Betabrand is perfect because we have such an open, experimental approach to branding,” says Lindland. From its Model Citizen photo campaign to its Disco Open Source Project to its ThinkTank Community Idea Factory, Betabrand has built its brand around customer engagement.

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Best Free Alternatives to Microsoft Office Word

SocialFish

Libre Office is open-sourced by its huge community that works on bringing useful updates and assets daily. That means that its source-code editable and can be changed for free. Its large community consistently works on improving it, making it stabler and more secure. Completely free and open-sourced.

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Battling burnout as a social media manager

Sprout Social

By all accounts, social media professionals have demanding roles that require critical, creative thinking, organization and collaboration across teams. a leading technology company that provides enterprise open source solutions. Is there a point we should slow down or even pause organic content? Lean into your community.

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Joomla! Surpasses 15 Million Downloads

Bill Hartzer

Open Source Matters , Inc. OSM), the not-for-profit organization that supports the Joomla! the industry’s leading open source content management system (CMS), has been downloaded more than 15 million times from JoomlaCode. and a thriving third-party developer community.&#. “Back in June 2009, Joomla!

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Managing in the Virtual or Network(ed) Organization: News, views, and reviews of Work 2.0 tools, apps and practices

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Managing in the Virtual or Network(ed) Organization by Jon Husband. · Filed under Collaboration , Communities , Distributed Work , Enterprise 2.0 , Talent Management. He wisely chose the Linux Project as the initiative from which to draw inferences about decentralized organization. July 27, 2008 at 9:05 pm. ·

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Should You Design Your Website Using WordPress?

Small Business Mavericks

Even churches and community service organizations are using WordPress as a CMS and designing their websites using this free open source software. More and more, I’m seeing small business websites using WordPress as a CMS. Is that a good idea? In a word, there is nothing wrong with using WordPress as a CMS.

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