Renewing Networks: Egypt & “Losing Control”

By On February 13, 2011 · Leave a Comment

A lot of the recent talk about what’s going on in Tunisia and Egypt, about organizing today, digital media, anxieties about political organizational transitions… this all reminds me of this passage:

“Losing control is more important than trying to gain it. One distinguishing characteristic of the digital world is that power is [...]

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6 Questions For Our Social Networked Globe

By On August 25, 2010 · 2 Comments

Paul Hawken asks 6 great questions in his book “Blessed Unrest”.

“At what point in the future will the existence of 2 million, 3 million, or even 5 million citizen-led organizations shift our awareness to the possibility that we will have fundamentally changed the way human beings govern and organize themselves on earth? What [...]

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Follow… Me – Nationalism Diminishes In The Global Human Net

By On August 12, 2009 · 2 Comments

Tim O’Reilly said the following about Obama’s use of social media in a recent Q&A on one of IBM’s business marketing sites.

“Clearly there are some new channels for outreach and new channels for listening to what people are telling you. Barack Obama built a really effective platform with mybarackobama.com—and it is really important [...]

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