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Community sense: The elephant in the room is a 1000lb gorilla

July 1st, 2006 · No Comments · Four pillars

Consider this article by Donna Bogatin courtesy of ZDNet. She quotes from the New York Times:
The bulk of the writing and editing on Wikipedia is done by a geographically diffuse group of 1,000 or so regulars, many of whom are administrators on the site. The administrators are all volunteers, most of them in their 20’s. [...]

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Four Pillars: On the use of social software in risk management

July 1st, 2006 · 4 Comments · Four pillars

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Markets are conversations, as per Cluetrain.
Markets contain risk.
Conversations can help you manage that risk.
Social software can help you extract what you need from those conversations and thereby help you manage the risk.

I was reading the latest issue of Risk and Regulation, published by the Centre [...]

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Four Pillars: On spoiling and disrupting

July 1st, 2006 · No Comments · Four pillars

Part of the reason I blog is to improve my understanding of things, even change my opinion as and when I have reason to. This I cannot do unless I read blogs of people whose views are somewhat different from mine, natural selection applied to opensource thought.
Which is why I read Agile Management’s comments on [...]

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