Jono Bacon

Jono Bacon is back with us on the Voxgig podcast and we couldn't be more excited to catch up with him. An awful lot has happened since the last time we spoke to him in 2020. We can't think why, I mean 2020 was a pretty boring year… nothing really interesting happened as far as we can recall. For one thing, Jono has founded Community Leadership Core, an accelerator for  companies in devrel looking to build stronger communities. Jono is a community strategist and consultant, as well as the author of several books on community building.

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Jono describes his journey through consulting to his current startup as "very painful and very annoying". That sounds like running a company alright! Jono has been consulting for many years, but found that the longer he went with it, the more bored he became. In search of a bigger impact, he launched Community Leadership Core.

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So what's the secret? How do you successfully build communities? It starts with mindset. Jono believes that you shouldn't think of your webinar as a gift your community gets to receive, but rather that you are taking an hour out of their time - what are you going to give them in return? When starting out, your content must be easy to consume. No one likes entering a community online and feeling like they can't join in on the discussion. It's the equivalent of going to a conference and standing in the corner. Sure the technical stuff is important, but it's the social aspect that people tend to forget about. If you get that down, you're laughing.

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Reach out to Jono here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonobacon/

Explore the Community Leadership Core accelerator at Jono's website https://www.jonobacon.com/

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