Bill Johnston

Notes on Community, Collaborative Technologies, and Design

Bill Johnston helps business leaders weave communities into the fabric of their organizations to drive growth, innovation, and lasting customer relationships. A pioneering strategist and designer, Bill has led community initiatives at TechRepublic, Autodesk, and Dell. In 2015, he founded Structure3C to help organizations build thriving community ecosystems that create real business value.


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  • Join me at the 9/22 San Francisco Online Community Meetup

    For our September MeetUp, we are thrilled to have longtime online community expert, Randall Farmer, as our guest speaker. We’ll also be joined by Bill Johnston, Head of Global Community at Dell, who will be facilitating the event. Randy will be speaking about managing reputation systems in online communities. His talk will lead into an…

    September 13, 2010
  • notthisbody: On Social Learning Sensemaking Capacity and Collective Intelligence

    via spacecollective.org

    August 17, 2010
  • Closing the Digital Frontier – Magazine – The Atlantic

    http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/closing-the-digital-front… Posted via email from Social Architect

    June 8, 2010
  • Activity Streams, Socialism, & the Future of Open Source

    I saw an earlier version of Chris Messina’s activity streams presentation at SxSWi. Activity as context for social content is pretty interesting. via slideshare.net Posted via web from Social Architect

    June 2, 2010
  • Online Community Unconference 2010 – Will I See You There?

    The Online Community Unconference is a gathering of online community practitioners – managers, developers, business people, tool providers, investors – to discuss experience and strategies in the development and growth of online communities. Those involved in online community development (and social software in general) share many common challenges: community management, tools, marketing, business models, legal…

    May 18, 2010
  • Community + Social Media Meetup 5/19 6pm at Cedar Door

    via plancast.com Austin + #Dell peeps – anyone up for an informal Community + Social Media meetup in Austin next weds night? Posted via web from Social Architect

    May 14, 2010
  • The Semantic Web: What It Is and Why It Matters [VIDEO]

    via mashable.com Very cool little documentary about the semantic web. Posted via web from Social Architect

    May 10, 2010
  • How many of today’s headlines will matter in 100 years? TED Blog: And now, the real news: Kirk Citron on TED.com

    via blog.ted.com I *LOVE* the idea of “long news”. We have done a poor job societally of late in critically evaluating the information we consume. I love the notion of trying to assess the half life of information Posted via web from Social Architect

    March 31, 2010
  • Dude, Dell’s Getting a Bill

    I have some personal career news that I would like to share: I’m joining Dell’s Community and Social Media team on April 5th! I’m very excited to be going to a company that has shown true leadership and vision in the social media space, including Ideastorm and their effective use of Twitter. I’ll miss my…

    March 26, 2010
  • 3 sacred cows about online community that need to be challenged

    Photo cred: http://www.flickr.com/photos/skinnyde/146763376/ The sacred cows I mention below have been on my mind for sevral months now, but I was inspired to take action after a community management panel that I attended at SxSWi. My intention with this post is not to suggest that we do away these sacred cows, but to start to…

    March 19, 2010
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