Chris Grams

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Raleigh, NC

Chris Grams is the Head of Marketing at Tidelift and author of The Ad-Free Brand: Secrets to Building Successful Brands in a Digital World.

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Evaluating TEDx as a brand strategy

A big part of my day job is to help organizations with their brand positioning and strategy (I also write about brand strategy quite a bit over here). So when I read the…

The open source organization: good in theory or good in reality?

On occasion I get the opportunity to speak publicly about some of the things I've learned over the years applying the open source way in organizations. In almost every case…

Are you building a community or a club?

I've never been much for clubs. When I was young, I made a lousy cub scout. I wasn't a real "joiner" in high school or college either (just enough to get by) and I still don't…

Want to reinvent management? Start with the managers.

Maybe some day we'll look back on the role of the manager in our organizations and laugh. Such a quaint trend. Kind of like having The Clapper in every room of your house, or…

Five questions about open innovation with Stefan Lindegaard

On Wednesday, September 1, opensource.com will be hosting a webcast with Stefan Lindegaard, one of the world's leading experts on open innovation. Sign up for the webcast now…

Does your organization need a "no policy" policy?

Daniel Pink published an interesting piece over the weekend in The Telegraph about Netflix's innovative corporate policy of not having a vacation policy. Meaning, employees…

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cgrams

1 Feb 2011

An anthropologist's view of an open source community

Hi Ruth-- very interesting. I love the observation that gathering a community around a common idea and mission is critical to success. Did she talk more about this recommendation, or was there any discussion in the audience about the Fedora vision/mission or the Four Foundations?

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview#Our_Mission
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Foundations

Wondering if she found whether these core beliefs were closely or loosely held by the community members? It might be an opportunity for Fedora to educate people about them on a broader scale...

cgrams

31 Jan 2011

What does Google's management change say about the open source way?

Hi Sam, I read that article yesterday too, but didn't see what you saw... very interesting point... I wonder what would have happened if this was a more open process for employees to participate in, but you've also made me wonder whether it would have even eventually been possible to open up beyond Google employees in some meaningful way.

I wonder if Google has an internal system for tracking the cultural makeup of their organizational successes? They are probably a good example of a company that has run internal projects in both an open way and a more traditional way, might be interesting to analyze the success of each approach in their environment.