Comments on: Three books, one conclusion http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/09/23/three-books-one-conclusion/ Nic Brisbourne's view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: nic http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/09/23/three-books-one-conclusion/#comment-3471 nic Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:09:16 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/09/23/three-books-one-conclusion/#comment-3471 Hoover - you are bang on - Shirky is a clever guy too, and I could easily have cited him. I haven't read Benkler though and you are the second or third person to mention him now. I will check him out. (PS One day I will find a widget to add to my sidebar that links to my visual bookshelf profile on FB showing what I've read and reviewed and so on.) Wallen - I agree the initial choice of rules and norms for the community is critical to getting it off to a good start. Johnson details this well in Emergence. tks for the comments Hoover – you are bang on – Shirky is a clever guy too, and I could easily have cited him. I haven’t read Benkler though and you are the second or third person to mention him now. I will check him out. (PS One day I will find a widget to add to my sidebar that links to my visual bookshelf profile on FB showing what I’ve read and reviewed and so on.)

Wallen – I agree the initial choice of rules and norms for the community is critical to getting it off to a good start. Johnson details this well in Emergence.

tks for the comments

]]> By: nic http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/09/23/three-books-one-conclusion/#comment-11566 nic Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:09:00 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/09/23/three-books-one-conclusion/#comment-11566 Hoover - you are bang on - Shirky is a clever guy too, and I could easily have cited him. I haven't read Benkler though and you are the second or third person to mention him now. I will check him out. (PS One day I will find a widget to add to my sidebar that links to my visual bookshelf profile on FB showing what I've read and reviewed and so on.) Wallen - I agree the initial choice of rules and norms for the community is critical to getting it off to a good start. Johnson details this well in Emergence. tks for the comments Hoover – you are bang on – Shirky is a clever guy too, and I could easily have cited him. I haven’t read Benkler though and you are the second or third person to mention him now. I will check him out. (PS One day I will find a widget to add to my sidebar that links to my visual bookshelf profile on FB showing what I’ve read and reviewed and so on.)

Wallen – I agree the initial choice of rules and norms for the community is critical to getting it off to a good start. Johnson details this well in Emergence.

tks for the comments

]]> By: Wallen's http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/09/23/three-books-one-conclusion/#comment-3470 Wallen's Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:34:15 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/09/23/three-books-one-conclusion/#comment-3470 Hi Nic. I fully agree with this conclusion. I would add a small precision to it. The corporation's initial social regulations design determines to a certain extent the initial types of interactions among the first users of the product. Thereafter the company losses "control" of the direction these interactions take but the direction itself is influenced by the initial design. It's a bit like pushing a snowball: you can push it in the right handside direction of a slope, it can end up totally on the left but the likelihood is lower. Hi Nic. I fully agree with this conclusion. I would add a small precision to it. The corporation’s initial social regulations design determines to a certain extent the initial types of interactions among the first users of the product. Thereafter the company losses “control” of the direction these interactions take but the direction itself is influenced by the initial design. It’s a bit like pushing a snowball: you can push it in the right handside direction of a slope, it can end up totally on the left but the likelihood is lower.

]]> By: Wallen's http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/09/23/three-books-one-conclusion/#comment-11565 Wallen's Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:34:00 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/09/23/three-books-one-conclusion/#comment-11565 Hi Nic. I fully agree with this conclusion. I would add a small precision to it. The corporation's initial social regulations design determines to a certain extent the initial types of interactions among the first users of the product. Thereafter the company losses "control" of the direction these interactions take but the direction itself is influenced by the initial design. It's a bit like pushing a snowball: you can push it in the right handside direction of a slope, it can end up totally on the left but the likelihood is lower. Hi Nic. I fully agree with this conclusion. I would add a small precision to it. The corporation’s initial social regulations design determines to a certain extent the initial types of interactions among the first users of the product. Thereafter the company losses “control” of the direction these interactions take but the direction itself is influenced by the initial design. It’s a bit like pushing a snowball: you can push it in the right handside direction of a slope, it can end up totally on the left but the likelihood is lower.

]]> By: Hoover http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/09/23/three-books-one-conclusion/#comment-3466 Hoover Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:03:29 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/09/23/three-books-one-conclusion/#comment-3466 Hello Nic. Thanks for the recommendations. Along the same lines are Clay Shirky's "Here Comes Everybody" and Benkler's "Wealth of Networks". Shirky's book is an easy read, and explains how the net has enabled large scale collaboration and conversation. It's non-geeky (I lent a copy to my mother) and an excellent overview. The second is more technical - it combines economics, sociology, law and business. But it's useful as a theoretical guide, picking up where Shirky leaves off. I wouldn't lend it to my mother, but it would be useful reading for anyone in a web-based business. Hello Nic. Thanks for the recommendations.

Along the same lines are Clay Shirky’s “Here Comes Everybody” and Benkler’s “Wealth of Networks”.

Shirky’s book is an easy read, and explains how the net has enabled large scale collaboration and conversation. It’s non-geeky (I lent a copy to my mother) and an excellent overview.

The second is more technical – it combines economics, sociology, law and business. But it’s useful as a theoretical guide, picking up where Shirky leaves off. I wouldn’t lend it to my mother, but it would be useful reading for anyone in a web-based business.

]]> By: Hoover http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/09/23/three-books-one-conclusion/#comment-11564 Hoover Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:03:00 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/09/23/three-books-one-conclusion/#comment-11564 Hello Nic. Thanks for the recommendations. Along the same lines are Clay Shirky's "Here Comes Everybody" and Benkler's "Wealth of Networks". Shirky's book is an easy read, and explains how the net has enabled large scale collaboration and conversation. It's non-geeky (I lent a copy to my mother) and an excellent overview. The second is more technical - it combines economics, sociology, law and business. But it's useful as a theoretical guide, picking up where Shirky leaves off. I wouldn't lend it to my mother, but it would be useful reading for anyone in a web-based business. Hello Nic. Thanks for the recommendations.

Along the same lines are Clay Shirky’s “Here Comes Everybody” and Benkler’s “Wealth of Networks”.

Shirky’s book is an easy read, and explains how the net has enabled large scale collaboration and conversation. It’s non-geeky (I lent a copy to my mother) and an excellent overview.

The second is more technical – it combines economics, sociology, law and business. But it’s useful as a theoretical guide, picking up where Shirky leaves off. I wouldn’t lend it to my mother, but it would be useful reading for anyone in a web-based business.

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