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| Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations | 
 enlarge | Author: Clay Shirky
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 1739
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.4
ISBN: 1594201536
Dewey Decimal Number: 303.4833
EAN: 9781594201530
ASIN: 1594201536
Publication Date: February 28, 2008
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 ready for the National Initiative for Democracy April 27, 2008
0 out of 8 found this review helpful
To me, this book is a signal that we are ready for the National Initiative for Democracy (http://ni4d.org). This proposal would amend the Constitution with a process for allowing direct vote on bills. The powers of Congress remain as they are; the NI4D proposal would not replace Congress. If we can harness a small fraction of the surplus attention of this country for government administration, we will quickly become the best managed country in the world.
 Content A, Writing Style B June 29, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
After hearing about this book on NPR, I quickly ordered it, thinking its content would provide valuable marketing insight for us and our clients. The book provides great perspective on the social changes that have come about and are still emerging as a result of the Internet. However, for readers in the Internet age, the writing may sometimes seem a bit slow and repetitive. Good information, but could be crisper. Love the title.
Outstanding Book August 23, 2008
This is a thought-provoking, intellectually-stimulating book. A must-read for executive leadership of any company.
 Good mind-stretching book August 24, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a good mind-stretching book. Birthday Paradox, Prisoner's Dilemma, flash mobs, forming a Stay at Home Mom's group. There's a lot of diversity in the book but it all comes together under its aptly named subtitle: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. Shirky gives interesting examples where technology has been used to bring people and ideas together. As an entrepreneur, it made me think twice about the ideal size of a business.
If you like this type of light business plus fun examples, you will also like Ori Brafman's Starfish and the Spider. If you can just read one, I pick Starfish.
Communication Effects Society September 12, 2008
Citing scientific theory and narrative accounts, Clay Shirky, in Here Comes Everybody, engagingly distills the impact of new communication tools on both life and business in modern society. As he notes: "when we change the way we communicate, we change society."
With the advent of the Internet, and tools like wikis, blogs, and Twitter, the way we communicate is clearly changing, and changing quickly. Our ability to share and cooperate with one another has dramatically increased, while the cost of doing so has dropped to zero.
Many of the examples highlighted in the book center around grassroots efforts, enabled and supported by these new tools. The effect of these movements on traditional societal organizations, including governments and corporations, is markedly different today than it has been in the past.
Here Comes Everybody is recommended reading if you want to understand the context of these changes, both now and in the future.
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