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Review: Crowds are us

02.05.2010
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How times change: In the 110 years between the work of Gustave Le Bon (1895) and James Surowiecki (2005), crowds went from embodying stupidity to being wise. Compare and contrast:

Le Bon: “In crowds it is stupidity and not mother-wit that is accumulated. [T]he crowd is always intellectually inferior to the isolated individual.”

Surowiecki: “[U]nder the right [...]

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Community building with a building: The Sheldon

01.30.2010
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A while back Sustainable Industries reported on an innovative way of developing a retirement community. The Green Light Cooperative will develop The Sheldon with the help and input from its future tenants and operate it as a coop. A single building will thus manage to manifest elements of participatory development, crowdsourcing, and cooperative housing, while [...]

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Participatory sustainable property development: MotiveSpace Coalition

11.23.2009

Participatory [fill in the blank] involves and engages community members and other stakeholders in creating something they will use or benefit from or in making decisions about something that will impact them. Participation crowdsources from the community the design or execution of projects. It entails heavy collaboration among parties and requires radical transparency. Participatory democracy, [...]

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Book review: “Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business”

11.13.2009

Reading Jeff Howe’s book you’d think crowdsourcing is the best thing since the invention of the company. Despite Howe’s stated intention to be impartial in his journalistic account of the rise, present, and future of crowdsourcing, it’s clear he’s in the evangelist camp. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, except you won’t learn much about [...]

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Crowdsourcing conversations: The New Communicators

10.17.2009

I love discovering what goes on in my city. My Reader recently fed me a posting about the coming@party. The Art Institute of Portland invites people to go
[f]rom digital anonymity to personal interaction. We’ll go from digital chatter to personal conversations and maybe make some new connections in the process….

Participants will write down their Twitter [...]

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Challenge: What is the one rule of sustainability?

10.07.2009

When I decided to start my sustainable marketing consultancy Semiosis Communications, I consulted with a friend who has an MBA and is running a small business. My main concern was that even though I had a business degree and marketing experience in a variety of organizations, I had no experience running my own business in [...]

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