Posts Tagged: organization

Great! We are all connected and love each other and can express and develop that online!

I’m not so sure that this is the best possible thing. I’m also skeptical of how far this can go and what it says about human development.

Are there specific activities that will ALWAYS need person-to-person contact? School? Sports? Or will we just live online in avatar form?

What are the negative consequences to organizing online?

Is this something for the masses or just “witches”, “Bloggers” and “Atheists”?

I do also have some positive notions of the possibilities. How has this technology and world-wide community allowed more developed nations to give access to advanced information abroad? The implications of using this technology in this manner seem quite impactful.

Week 4: The Rise of the Network

Here Comes Everybody! – Clay Shirkey

1. If markets are such a good idea, why do we have organizations at all?  Why can’t all exchanges and value happen in the market?

2. Is company growth always a good idea?  Why are big companies failing?

3. Our world used to be a one-way flow of information: Messages were developed and then we consumed them.  Content was filtered and there was no interaction.  How were we able to switch to a two-way interactive approach?

4. What is non-financial motivation and how has it shaped digital information collection?  Are traditional business theories in danger?

5. How does the internet play into money and company growth today?  Have companies become smaller or have they gotten smarter?

The Wealth of Networks – Yochai Benkler
Ch. 1-4, 10

1.  What are some characteristics of information production as an economic phenomenon?

2. How do we know that the content produced by widely distributed individuals is accurate and trustworthy (Wikipedia)?

3.  Should society be concerned that our new freedom will fray social ties and fragment social relations?