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http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html This is a lightly edited version of the keynote I gave on Social Software at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology conference in Santa Clara on April 24, 2003 Good morning, everybody. I want to talk this morning about social software ...there's a surprise. I want to talk about a pattern I've seen over and over again in social software that supports large and long-lived groups. And that pattern is the pattern described in the title of this talk: "A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy."

A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy

Social Media Classroom

This website is an invitation to grow a public resource of knowledge and relationships among all who are interested in the use of social media in learning, and therefore, it is made public with the intention of growing a community of participants who will take over its provisioning, governance and future evolution. To that end, we’re launching an instance of the Colab as a community of practice for learners and teachers, educators, administrators, funders, students of pedagogy and technology design, engaged students who share a common interest in using social media to afford a more student-centric, constructivist, collaborative, inquiry-oriented learning. http://socialmediaclassroom.com/

TWITTER TOOLBOX: 60+ Twitter Tools

Twitter is a great service, but it would be nothing without the other sites, tools, and apps that help you get the most out of it. Here we highlight more than 60 of our favorite Twitter add-ons. Twitterrific – A compact client that publishes tweets, shows unread tweets, has easy access to profile pages, shows either public or friend timeline, and more. http://mashable.com/2007/09/29/twitter-toolbox/
http://gapingvoid.com/2007/08/12/why-were-all-blogging-less/

cartoons drawn on the back of business cards": why we're all blogging less

[“Dorothy”. One of my fave car­toons from the early days. NYNY, 1998.] A com­mon con­ver­sa­tion thread I’m hea­ring a lot among the vete­ran blog­gers, is how we all seem to be blog­ging a lot less. The rea­sons are nume­rous; here’s a short list of the main ones I’m pic­king up. 1. We got busy.
http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2006/04/power_law_of_pa.html

Ross Mayfield's Weblog: Power Law of Participation

Social software brings groups together to discover and create value. The problem is, users only have so much time for social software. The vast majority of users with not have a high level of engagement with a given group, and most tend to be free riders upon community value. But patterns have emerged where low threshold participation amounts to collective intelligence and high engagement provides a different form of collaborative intelligence. To illustrate this, lets explore the Power Law of Participation: