Related Concepts. Interactions-coverstory. 'Cultures of participation' and IT success. Many important business ideas and trends, including Enterprise 2.0 and Social CRM, are rooted in social networking technologies that help individuals come together spontaneously to form collaborative, ad hoc affinity groups.
These new technologies, such as wikis and wisdom of crowds tools, remind us of the essential link between culture and collaboration in creating successful projects. Given the significance of collaborative groups, I read with interest one particular slide in an SAP-sponsored academic research paper on peer support in enterprise software. This slide portrays the historical relative impact of various technologies on collaboration and information sharing: Projects succeed or fail based on collaboration.
OpenStreetMap. Gerhard Fischer's Home Page. Luis von Ahn: Massive-scale online collaboration. Related Concepts. Re-Space-ing Place: "Place" and "Space" Ten Years On. Metadesigners Open Network. An early prototype of The Lovers' Clock artwork See this set of notes on finding a more synergistic form of temporality.
Approach from Meta Design and Cultures of Participation. The approach suggested in culture of participation is to look at any situation and the participants of that situations as equal contributors to the situations.
Every participant is a producer as well as consumer. Meta design claims that the end user should have the ability to design the software or interface to their customization.