Showing posts with label Community. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Community. Show all posts
Friday, July 17, 2015
The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation: By free-manual.blogspot.com(Free Books and manual Manual,Free eBooks,BSCS,BCS,Free Downloadable Books)
The Art of Community : Building the New Age of Participation
Product Description
Online communities offer a wide range of opportunities today, whether you’re supporting a cause, marketing a product or service, or developing open source software.The Art of Community will help you develop the broad range of talents you need to recruit members to your community, motivate and manage them, and help them become active participants.
Author Jono Bacon offers a collection of experiences and observations from his decade-long involvement in building and managing communities, including his current position as manager for Ubuntu, arguably the largest community in open source software. You’ll discover how a vibrant community can provide you with a reliable support network, a valuable source of new ideas , and a powerful marketing force.
The Art of Community will help you:
- Develop a strategy, with specific
objectives and goals, for building your community - Build simple, non-bureaucratic processes to help your community perform tasks, work together, and share successes
- Provide tools and
infrastructure that let contributors work quickly - Create buzz around your community to get more people involved
- Track the community’s work so it can be optimized and simplified
- Explore a capable, representative governance strategy for your community
- Identify and manage conflict, including dealing with divisive personalities
About the Author
Jono Bacon is an award-winning leading community manager, author and consultant . Currently the community manager for the worldwide Ubuntu community, Bacon is a regular keynote speaker, has also authored four books and acted as a consultant to a range of technology companies. Bacon’s weblog (http://www.jonobacon.org/) is one of the widest read Open Source weblogs and he writes regularly about community management.
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Planning the Good Community: New Urbanisms in Theory and Practice: By free-manual.blogspot.com(Free Books and manual Manual,Free eBooks,BSCS,BCS,Free Downloadable Books)
Product Description
People either love new urbanism or hate it. Some find compact new neighborhoods of brownstone row houses , elegant Victorian mansions, or country cottages delightful: places that celebrate the city and its history, and offer hope for a sustainable future. Others see these ‘urban villages’ as up-graded suburbs mired in the aesthetics of another time and place: cloyingly nostalgic anachronisms for affluent elites. This book examines new urban approaches both in theory and practice. Taking a critical look at how new urbanism lives up to its theory in its practice, it asks whether new urban approaches offer a viable path to the good community.
With examples drawn principally from the United States, Canada, Britain , Germany, Belgium , Norway, and Japan, this book explores new urban approaches in a wide range of settings. It considers the relationship between the movement for urban villages and an urbanrenaissance that has spread in the UK and Europe with the ‘New Urbanism’ movement in the United States and Canada and asks whether the concerns that drive contemporary planning theory – issues like power, democracy, spatial patterns, and globalization – receive adequate attention in new urban approaches. Does new urbanism offer a persuasive normative theory of urban development that will shape planning practice for years to come, or a design paradigm that cannot transcend its cultural origins in a particular time and place?
The work of new urbanists has resulted in beautiful urban districts that reveal the potential of planning to create more attractive and meaningful urbanlandscapes . New urbanists have developed and propagated a formula for planning the good community, and have gained international attention in the process.Beauty is arguably a necessary condition for the good community, but is it sufficient?
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