Two books came out this weekend that may be of interest:
Charles Leadbeater (and 257 other people - as it says in in the inside cover) have finally published their wiki book "We-Think".
I have previously blogged over the development of this book, so I am pleased to see that it has been published.
On a similar vein: "Here comes everybody - the power of organising without organisations" is also just out.
This may actually be a misnomer as what it is probably describing are distributed organisations where the goats probably still get fed but where there are low entry costs of joining the organisation which is distinguished by:
- sharing (photos. music, campaign activity) as the anchor of the organisation
- Mass amateurisation
- Publish then filter
- Collaboration through different levels of contribution
- Viral communication
- Faster group activity
- New groups entering the market
- Creating both Bonding (drawing existing people closer) and Bridging (reaching out to other people) social capital
- Low coordination costs and a lower cost to failure
What is quite fascinating with the sectors these books describe is that for the first time we are seeing the creation of a public audit trail to see how collaboration operates and word of mouth issues develop.
Much of this is going to be important to areas TCC is working in such as public engagement over community cohesion as well as how traditional membership organisations communicate and organise.
Comments