Laura Hilliger (She/Her)

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Laura Hilliger is a writer, educator and technologist. She’s a multimedia designer and developer, a technical liaison, a project manager, an open web advocate who is happiest in collaborative environments. She’s a co-founder of We Are Open Co-op, an Ambassador for Opensource.com, is working to help open up Greenpeace, and a Mozilla alum. Find her on Twitter and Mastodon as @epilepticrabbit

Open Source Champion Emerging Contributor Award 2016 People's Choice Award 2017 Maker Open education Web developer Wordpress Community Manager Creative Commons Geek Contributor Club Author Open Organization Ambassador

Authored Content

What Game of Thrones teaches us about working openly

A thought exercise: What can a chaotic free-for-all of constantly shifting loyalties teach us about collaboration and open innovation?

Management alone can't drive open culture change

Creating flexible, decentralized organizations isn't easy. It requires work from everyone—not just managers.

10 steps to innersource in your organization in 2017

Taking steps toward greater inclusivity

This exercise helps your team members become aware of the various privileges they might possess—a great way to begin dialog about diversity and inclusion.

How to handle criticism of your open project

Remaining empathetic when people criticize your project can be difficult. Here's how my team did it recently.

What to do when your open team has impostor syndrome

Want to overcome your team's feelings of inadequacy? Start by making different language choices.

3 tips for helping creative people work openly

Leading offline groups can be challenging. These three tips make it easier.

Authored Comments

LauraHilliger

17 Nov 2016

Open is a means, not a movement

Love the article, but want to make 1 quick point:

"All of its value, all of the possibilities that open offers, are manifest only when two or more humans work together." (and the thinking behind this, that it's the collaboration that's powerful). I would say, "Yes, and" working openly also develops self confidence and other psychological strengths required for emotional intelligence, whether people are collaborating with you or not. If you dare to put something in the open, and continue to do so without expectation, it's valuable to you at a level we don't often talk about when we consider the benefits of open.

LauraHilliger

17 Nov 2016

Your guide to open decisions

While the Open Decision Framework was in development I forked it and remixed it for an international Greenpeace project. We've benefited a lot from having the ODF to refer back to, and to give to new people contributing. Highly recommended resource!!