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Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
by Clay Shirky
from Penguin Press

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• Useful book on spontaneous organizing
  This book is a good introduction to internet tools that give people a stronger voice than they would have without the internet. He addresses the idea that the internet is changing how we view experts and how this effects the job market. For instance, before the printing press, there was a need for scribes to hand copy books. After the printing press, that skill became outmoded. Now, we see mass amateurization in things like writing and music, and it is changing the economic landscape.
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• great service
  Excellent service! I am thoroughly enjoying this book. It is a must read for people involved in leadership roles in large organizations.

• So Why Am I Writing This Review?
  So why am I writing this review? Well Clay Shirky would probably tell me (in part) that my sharing of perspectives "anchors community" and that sharing also enhances my standing within the community. So I'm helping build our society (Woohoo. I have a high social conscience!!!) while also enhancing my own social standing (Oops. I'm a social climber?). On the other hand ... I may also be an artful evader of real world responsibility (and what could possibly be a more artful evasion of real work than a book... more info

• Clay is as good and author as a speaker
  I had the opportunity to hear Clay speak at a recent event in Boston. I immediately knew that I wanted to read more about his point of view on technology trends after he was five minutes into his speech on technology and social tools. He uses real-life analogies to explain why some technolgy ventures fail, or succeed. However, sometimes they fail or succeed for very different reasons than their creators imagined they would. This book is about the power of social tools and the groups that form because of... more info

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