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Archive for February de 2009

This post “A Privacy Wall Concept to make My.Gov a reality: Sometimes a wall in the information age is a good thing” is now located at OpenGovBlog.Org.

The tension between obtaining participation vs collaboration.

Posted by: Ken Fischer in: ● February 2, 2009

Thinking about KIDFAD, Surowiecki’s requirements for successful collaboration. Also his Ted talk where he questioned whether the blogosphere is a good collaboration environment.
Also thinking about communities and communities structures. Get the influencers on board, make them evangelists and you can get a lot of people participating in your social media campaign or effort.
But they [...]

In James Surowiecki’s Wisdom of the Crowds he argues that for a collaboration to be successful it must have 6 elements:
Knowledge must exist in the audience
Independence of contributors
Diversity of opinion
Focused on compatible goal
Aggregation of information
Decentralized Process/Local Knowledge
I thought KIDFAD is a good way to remember since there are still people who think that is what [...]