Posts Tagged ‘Wisdom of the crowds’
Is social media a KID FAD? A quick way to remember Surowiecki’s requirements for successful collaboration
Posted by: Ken Fischer on: February 2, 2009
- In: Crowdsourcing | Social Media | Web 2.0 | Web2.0
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In James Surowiecki’s Wisdom of the Crowds he argues that for a collaboration to be successful it must have 6 elements: Knowledge must exist in the audience Independence of contributors Diversity of opinion Focused on compatible goal Aggregation of information Decentralized Process/Local Knowledge I thought KIDFAD is a good way to remember since there are [...]
Social Media vs. Social Technology: Refining Definitions
Posted by: Ken Fischer on: January 4, 2009
- In: New Media | Social Media | Web 2.0
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The wikipedia entry has been updated since I wrote this post and now clearly seems define social media as content. So what about the technology? Can we call it social technology? Is the technology used to post, read, sharecontent, improve navigation and relevance by making use of user behavior and input, the same as the [...]
Mobsourcing vs Crowdsourcing: Can conformity occasionally make for a more reliable crowd?
Posted by: Ken Fischer on: December 26, 2008
In my last post I started to examine the claim of the cluetrain manifesto that a more networked audience is more intelligent or at least a better detector than an individual. The #Mumbai victim list twitter distribution illustrated 4 ways which a network can apply truth filters and 2 ways in which the network affects [...]
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