Lifecycle of Emergence Using Emergence to Take Social Innovations to Scale Margaret Wheatley & Deborah Frieze, 2006 Despite current ads and slogans, the world doesn�t change one person at a time. As networks grow and transform into active, working communities of practice, we discover how Life truly changes, which is through emergence. It changes as networks of relationships form among people who discover they share a common cause and vision of what�s possible.

So when I think about it our communities are transparent and bottom-up in that people participate and interact their know-how, allowing for emergence, but they are not very enterprise 2.0 If people were free to create I bet we’d get lots more created than we’d get asked to create, so we are missing out on some emergence here. Tags: emergence community conversation facilitate This is a follow-up to my Community Lessons post, and Community paradox post. Top-Down community creation

And of course from this we are capitalising on opportunities, and there emerges an element of self organisation and autonomy. Tags: km conversation network emergence learnin Here’s an excerpt from a one page flyer I’m doing for Communities of Practice at our work: “We like to think that people in our [firm] are more than their job title describes, we all have many talents, and we all have many needs to draw on each others talent. This is what we call ’social productivity.”

It's an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will "interact" with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it. ...Tags: Tags: online_facilitation social_software community networks socialsoftware online_community emergence socialnetworks statistic

The event is focused on how to use various Microsoft technologies for emergency response. Strong Angel was a 5 day event, focused on how different organizations would work together under an emergency. Emergency Management e-Forms Prototype This The local groups were looking for I am at a Microsoft event in Christchurch (New Zealand), co-presented by Intergen New Zealand . You can learn more about the initiative at Microsoft Citizen Safety Architecture, at www.microsoft.com/csa .

It is entitled: Using Emergence to Take Social Innovation to Scale As networks grow and transform into active, collaborative communities, we discover how Life truly changes, which is through emergence. When separate, local efforts connect with each other as networks, then strengthen as communities of practice, suddenly and surprisingly a new system emerges at a greater level of scale. Republished from our archive in January 2007: The following is from a remarkable essay by Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze, which I consider a must read.

We know the aim is all the things I mentioned directly above, but we don’t explicitly work towards that aim, rather we just participate and value emerges that achieves these aims. Tags: network community emergence collaboration tasks proces A while ago I posted that size doesn’t matter when it comes to effective communities. You don’t need a lot of members to make a community of practice successful, you just need quality participation.

I was recently contacted by Gus diZerega, a post-Wilberian integrative thinker who has been studying “emergence”, and started a website with online journal, Studies in Emergent Order . One of his articles, New Directions in Emergent Order Research , from the Fall 2008 issue, charts out the aims of the project and its historical grounding. If they Much of the content is still as relevant today, and particularly relate to our p2p concerns. For example, how does the self-aggregation of peer to peer dynamics inter-relate to existing institutions?

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This application of ‘semantics’ is in contrast to the way the term ‘semantics’ is being used in the fields of ‘Emergent-Semantics’ and ‘Semiotic-Dynamics’ which are more concerned with neologisms (newly coined words or expressions) and evolving language systems, and specifically, ‘tagging’ and ‘folksonomies’ as evidence of these phenomena. (see Emergent-Semantics’ and ‘Semiotic-Dynamics’ are relatively new fields of study that have gained some interest due in part to the general interest in ‘Semantic-Web’ research but specifically the recognized properties of folksonomies that display power-law