Change

This morning I saw a story on CNN about change.gov. It’s a website set up by the Obama transition team to harvest ideas and feedback on their policies, priorities and so on.

When browsing for it, I accidentally discovered another “change” website. This one is change.org, calling itself a “social action network”.

The great thing about these [...]

The second coming of communities

Reading through Groundswell, I had a sense of deja vu. There was something vaguely familiar about a lot of this stuff.

All this talk about people having conversations online with each other, forming social networks, getting what they need from the community rather than from organisations, the challenges faced by organisations around driving value from it [...]