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Measuring the dollar value of participation Communicating community with decision makers and investors

Measuring The Dollar Value of Participation - Communicating Community with Decision Makers and Investors

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My opening talk at FLOSS Metrics 2014 on communicating the value of participation and community work within commercial organizations, and how to avoid getting side-tracked with the data and instead, focusing on success stories and well defined project goals. Learn more and join the community at - http://flosscommunitymetrics.org/

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Measuring the dollar value of participation

Communicatingcommunity with decision makers and investors

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Are you an Asset or a Burden?

"Rule No. 1: Never Lose Money.

Rule No. 2: Never Forget Rule No. 1."

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Survive and Thrive

• Survive - Realize your relevancy

to the bottom line.

• Thrive - Define the higher cause

of your community.

• Balance - Define the ladder of

engagement.

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Survive Create the

Best Product

Be Ahead of

Competition

Be Interoperable

Research and

Innovate

Maximize Profits

Expand Globally

Products

Revenue

Customer Success

Support

Engineering

Marketing & PR

Teams Goals:

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What is your contribution?

Understand the Bottom-line

Map the Marketing and Sales strategies

Understand your market and customer needs

Learn the roadmap in details

Explore your boundaries & Challenge them

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The

Community

Vision

• What are you building?

• Why should people care?

• Who are your members?

• How will they get involved?

• It has to be bigger.

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The “tension”

• Growing and supporting the community

requires resources

• Succeeding at scale requires global

support and advocacy

• Profits feeding Community feeding

Profits

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The ladder of engagement

• Why should people care?

• Who are your users?

• What teams can be formed in your community?

• How are members empowered?

• Are you communicating the investment and values?

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Zohar Babin, Sr. Director of Community & Ecosystem Partnerships

[email protected]

@zohar

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