Realities of collaboration- examples and explanations February 13, 2012

Hi Jon and readers of my open letters at  http://dadamac.posterous.com

Jon - This is a follow up to some ideas I was sharing with you about "collaboration".

Eileen Conn is the person I mentioned who was talking about "below the radar" groups and the "horizontal peer world".

• This 4 minute video clip is a good introduction - http://www.socialreporters.net/?p=455
• For a more detailed and formal analysis of the horizontal peer system, and the problems of linking it with top-down organisational structures see http://tinyurl.com/social-eco-system-dance and click on the link to the discussion paper
  
• For more about Eileen see http://tinyurl.com/Eileen-Conn-about

For a very practical and impressive implementation of people working together on "something solid" see this video about car design and production:

• TEDxRainier - Joe Justice - WikiSpeed -

For a lighthearted and informative introduction to how this kind of collaboration develops:

• Enterprise 2.0 - A joyful definition    Juggler Fabian Seewald (Dundu) explains us the concept of Enterprise 2.0 at #e20summit in Paris.   
  

By the way, I've been using the word "collaboration", but that may not be the best word. I'm currently discovering the word "stigmergy" which like "collaboration" is very different to "competition" - but I haven't fully understood the applications and limitations of the word "stigmergy" yet. These are things I'm reading to try to find out - but I don't recommend that you plough through them as well, you are probably best advised to stop once you've seen the juggler above..

• tigmergy -  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmergy
• A proposal for governance: Stigmergy, beyond competition and collaboration - http://wlcentral.org/book/export/html/2419 
• Stigmergy - P2P Foundation - http://p2pfoundation.net/Stigmergy

Pamela