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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:  (30 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1803
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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 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.
Social media empower groups, challenge institutions April 9, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
As the invention of the birth control pill and the transistor have led to fundamental changes in society, so too has the invention of social media and the Web 2.0. Online social networks have enabled productive, collaborative groups for form--groups that are larger and more distributed than at any other time in history.
This in a nutshell is Clay Shirky's argument in Here Comes Everybody. Shirky studies the places where our social networks and technological networks overlap. On the faculty of NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, he writes and teaches on the social and economic effects of the internet.
This very readable book examines the ways that new communications technologies enable groups of like minded people to form more easily than ever before, regardless of geography.
THE FUTURE, NOW April 7, 2008
Clay Shirky has written a highly insightful, extremely forward-thinking, compellingly readable and absolutely brilliant analysis of the future of collective social intelligence, action and achievement. This is where the world is headed - buy it and read it now.
 Interesting, but not as powerful as "Marketing to the Social Web" April 6, 2008
6 out of 25 found this review helpful
This book is interesting with some facts and figures that I like, but a lot of anecdotes to illustrate ideas, which I am not hot on. Prefer the facts and principles
Well-written and informative April 5, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Clay Shirky does a very good job documenting and explaining how new technological tools (e-mail, weblogs, wikis etc.) have, after becoming widely accessible, revolutionized how social groups can form, interact and achieve their goals.
He cites the usual suspects like e.g. Linux and Wikipedia as exceptional feats in free collaboration. But there are a lot of other interesting stories about small and large groups with vastly different objectives in the book you have probably never heard of.
And more importantly, while he explains how these projects and the tools they use work (in a way geared toward non-techies), the book is really about why they work from a sociological point of view. It is delighting to notice all those communities and group projects that have come out of nowhere to, seemingly without organization, build something for themselves and others. But it is really enlightening to read Shirky's well-written explanation of the underlying principles.
The book is fun to read and, considering its topic's impact on society, should be of interest to just about everybody.
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