Bill Johnston

Laax, CH

Rainbows before a massive snow storm

Munich Christmas markets

Sunrise in Copenhagen

Fall colors popping in Reno / Tahoe

SFO -> Tahoe

The 25 Most Influential Magazine Covers of All Time

The design nerd in me loves this:

The 25 Most Influential Magazine Covers of All Time

Images + the story behind the covers.

gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/t...

Sunrise rainbow. I didn’t know that was a thing.

Lessons from Two Decades of Community Strategy: What's Changed, What Hasn't, and Where We're Headed Highlights from my recent podcast interview

Lessons from Two Decades of Community Strategy: What's Changed, What Hasn't, and Where We're Headed
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Nope

That sort of makes it even more terrifying.

Sunrise in the Swiss Alps from Val Bavona

Purpose Will Guide Our Path to Better Online Communities - getting back to it on Substack.

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Moody pic from the top of Val Bavona in CH this summer.

🚨 Community Leaders! 🚨

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I listened to Sarah Wynn-William's "Careless People" on a very long drive back and forth to a Lacross tourney over spring break.

Damn.

I really wanted not to like the book and to pick her case against Meta apart.

It's damning.

Highly recommended. And, screw Meta.

The Future of Online Communities – Insights from the Online Community Unconference 2025 The Online Community Unconference 2025 made one thing clear: the need for meaningful connection has never been greater, but the challenges of fostering it have never been more complex. This post explores the key insights from the event—where community leadership is evolving, where it's stuck, and what we must do next.

The Future of Online Communities – Insights from the Online Community Unconference 2025

The Online Community Unconference 2025 made one thing clear: the need for meaningful connection has never been greater, but the challenges of fostering it have never been more complex. This post explores the…

And we have an agenda!

Online Community Unconference 2025

#ocu25

I hope to see YOU in San Francisco on 1/8 for the Online Community Unconference.

Prices go up 1/5 - still great tickets left!
ocu2025.eventbrite.com

Join community leaders from Adobe, Asana, Autodesk, Bill, Blanchard, Esri, Front, Hubspot, IBM & more.
#cmgr #community

Bay area #community leaders - the Online Community Unconference is shaping up nicely and we are on track to sell out soon.

Grab a ticket and kick 2025 off with a community of community leaders.

www.eventbrite.com/e/online-com...

#cmgr

MIT has a set of books labelled "Open Access" but it's a little clunky to find them on the MIT Press site, and so I've gone ahead and mirrored 400+ of them here:

archive.org/details/mit_...

The first couple of times are pretty rough. I tried to learn ~3 times, gave a rest for 15 years and then came back to it and now I’m in love.

Where are my #snowboard instructor Bluesky peeps at? Especially interested in connecting with instructors working with nonneurotypical kids.

We are hoping to spark some of that magic in Jan :)

Well damn, I guess im going to need to update the transparent background :)

Hi Community Folks!

I've been running the Online Community Unconference in since 2006.

I'm pleased to say that we are back from a 12 (yikes) year gap to reconvene both community AND community-skilled leaders for a day of open space in SF on Jan 8.

ocu2025.eventbrite.com

#community

This is a real book that I actually saw in the real world recently.

#cats

Will Trump continue to pull from a pro wrestling playbook? As a candidate, Donald Trump – whose relationship with the WWE spans nearly 30 years – emulated the bombastic style of a pro wrestler. As president, it might be doing him more harm than good.

There is no making sense of what is going on in the new administration - and that's on purpose.

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