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Strength in organized numbers
sethgodin.typepad.com — Another great post by the Godin. Good organization can be difficult to oppose. The internet i empowering people helping to bring them together in support of various causes.
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- BradyDale, on 04/15/2008, -0/+1Definitely agree with Seth that there is promise in organizing online, but we ain't there yet and I don't see the mechanism thus far. But it will happen. Ya gotta believe.
- Maxwell14, on 04/15/2008, -0/+0hey, you write great articles. What do you think of my articles? http://www.awgom.com
- neirad, on 04/16/2008, -0/+1"The system doesn't know what to do with a movement."
Jesus started a movement. And the system (world?) still doesn't know what to do with him.
Don't google me. Darien Gabriel- adb44281, on 11/15/2008, -0/+1It's a Revolution, not a Religion.
- sa8bell, on 04/16/2008, -0/+0If we understood the power of organization and the internet. The person who finds the replicable way to combine the power of both would stand to have a lot of power. Let me think about it, there has to be a way.
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The Road Warrior - BabitaW, on 04/16/2008, -0/+0It's true, collective moaning does seem to work. It's just sad that we have to shout together to be heard. However, while on-line mechanisms give us more power to shout, there are still powers who can stop our voices from being hurt. Wiki is a great example. I've tried putting a link to a site and someone keeps taking it off. What happened to free speech there?
- jswihart, on 04/16/2008, -0/+0I'm in Breckendridge for a marketing offsite. I was in town today for lunch. The doors are all closed.
- funkypuma, on 04/17/2008, -0/+0When consumers organize, they end up taking control even of marketing campaigns in another country, just what happened a few days ago with Absolut Vodka´s campaign (In an absolut world) in Mexico.
- brewcitywi, on 04/20/2008, -0/+0Even within a company there is a tipping point where the amount of hard workers outnumber the average ones, that there can be an inner revolt, or isolated interventions occur, where improvements can be demanded and expected without the owners coming through and wreaking havoc.
- josephgelb, on 04/22/2008, -0/+0energy waste is a problem but is really a result of th eunequal balance of capital causing one entity to exert its power over the other, i dont think the net is the best example because of the capital that its users bring to the table makes it a bit different for instance the face book creators and the king zuckerberg have alot of capital but its users are far more than the sum of their parts they are outspoken and powerful people in their own rights some kings of countries and others are the kings of technology and the net. i wouldnt call the change drastic in the powers to be rather they redefine the system of oppression and keep the goods raking in...
- dzjaiuu, on 11/16/2008, -0/+0This piece remainds me of the work of Stuart Kauffman who has been active in the field of complexity-research. His observations are very fundamental and answer the question posed. It all has to do, says Stuart, with the number of elements in a system and the number of connections. When elements and connections are at a certain level, all is in a stable state. When changed, you get complexity or chaos. When below a certain threshold you have no system, i.e. death. More connections mostly means change, sometimes immediately moving in to chaos.
So, yes, the stable state, reffered to as 'the system' can not absorb this increase. Hence change.
So keep the faith, and buckle up cause change might mean a rough ride..
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