doing big things for love…
Posted by jodietonita on April 30, 2008
I am about to crack open Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations.
The premise…
A revelatory examination of how the wildfire-like spread of new forms of social interaction enabled by technology is changing the way humans form groups and exist within them, with profound long-term economic and social effects-for good and for ill.
With accelerating velocity, our age’s new technologies of social networking are evolving, and evolving us, into new groups doing new things in new ways, and old and new groups alike doing the old things better and more easily. You don’t have to have a MySpace page to know that the times they are a changin’. Hierarchical structures that exist to manage the work of groups are seeing their raisons d’être swiftly eroded by the rising technological tide. Business models are being destroyed, transformed, born at dizzying speeds, and the larger social impact is profound.
I’ll keep you posted.
Here’s a clip from the author, Clay Shirky where he quips…
Standing from today, looking to the future… you will make more accurate predictions… by asking…
Not what’s the business model but rather… do the people that like it take care of each other?
…that turns out to be the better predictor of longevity.
