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Bill Johnston
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CEO @ Structure3C | Strategist, Designer, Community Practitioner, 🏂Professional Snowboard Instructor.

Reno / Tahoe
November 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Fall colors popping in Reno / Tahoe
October 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
SFO -> Tahoe
October 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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...
The 25 Most Influential Magazine Covers of All Time
www.nytimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Sunrise rainbow. I didn’t know that was a thing.
October 2, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Lessons from Two Decades of Community Strategy: What's Changed, What Hasn't, and Where We're Headed
open.substack.com/pub/structur...
Lessons from Two Decades of Community Strategy: What's Changed, What Hasn't, and Where We're Headed
Highlights from my recent podcast interview
open.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Purpose Will Guide Our Path to Better Online Communities - getting back to it on Substack.

open.substack.com/pub/structur...
September 4, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Moody pic from the top of Val Bavona in CH this summer.
September 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
🚨 Community Leaders! 🚨

Want to level-up your community advocacy program—or launch one that actually works?

Join me June 9 for a 90-minute masterclass. I'll share proven strategies, tools, and research-from my work at Autodesk, Dell, and Structure3C.

$100

Workbook & tools included.
May 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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.
March 20, 2025 at 11:05 PM
March 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
March 1, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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…
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.
billjohnston.io
January 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
And we have an agenda!

Online Community Unconference 2025

#ocu25
January 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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
December 30, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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
December 21, 2024 at 2:52 PM
Reposted by Bill Johnston
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_...
December 1, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Where are my #snowboard instructor Bluesky peeps at? Especially interested in connecting with instructors working with nonneurotypical kids.
November 22, 2024 at 5:43 PM
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
November 18, 2024 at 4:03 PM
This is a real book that I actually saw in the real world recently.

#cats
November 17, 2024 at 9:10 PM
There is no making sense of what is going on in the new administration - and that's on purpose.

theconversation.com/will-trump-c...
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.
theconversation.com
November 16, 2024 at 12:35 AM
The Last Dragon - the seventh most amazing movie ever created - is on Netflix
November 16, 2024 at 12:33 AM
In other news - snowboard season is slowly being deployed in the Sierras.
November 14, 2024 at 1:54 AM