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| Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations | 
| Author: Clay Shirky
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (31 reviews)
Sales Rank: 2095
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
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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 Good analysis, a bit repetitive September 14, 2008
Definitely worth its price.
Most basic concepts are repeated often and it may be annoying, but then probably they are so new, that the author felt the need to hammer them home.
A good eye opener.
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.
Everybody should read it September 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Unless you've been living under a rock over the past few years, you would have noticed an explosion in ways that people interact, collaborate and exchange information online. We are probably undergoing the greatest technological shift since the advent of e-mail, and it'd probably hard to grasp all the ramifications that profound new change is heralding. Every year now, or sometimes every month, several new information terms and products enter our collective consciousness, terms like blog, Twitter, Digg, Facebook, MySpace, collaborative filtering, crowdsourcing, online social networking, and many, many others. It becomes harder and harder to keep track of what each one of them means, little less of how to use it or whether to use it at all. Many of them may just be passing fads, but it is hard to deny that put together they are part of some larger trend. However, it may not be so obvious what this trend is all about and one often can't see the forest from all the trees. From that point, Clay Shirky's book "Here Comes Everybody" can be best understood as a field guide that will take you on a guided tour of this new forest and explain its immediate implications for how we live our lives, work or play. It is a very well written book, written in an easy-going journalistic style. It brings forth many real-life stories and case analyses that help with explaining these recent trends. The book is informative without being bogged down in technical jargon. It is also a very gripping read, and once one starts reading it is hard to put down. I would recommend it to everyone who is interested in getting a big picture of where we are headed in terms of collaborative technologies.
 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.
 Outstanding Book August 23, 2008
This is a thought-provoking, intellectually-stimulating book. A must-read for executive leadership of any company.
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