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collective intelligemce
August 2008 
from networks of interest to communities of practice
Posted on Apr 15th, 2007
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Duri
Duri
~C4Chaos asked me about the technolgy architecture that I envisioned for community empowerment. That's a huge topic and I will address some of the issues of technologies optimized for collective intelligence, wisdom and collective leadership, in a new entry. This is just a quick note of clarification to avoid any misunderstanding about what I meant by the following the sentence in my entry on "co-presencing the future of Zaadz."
What I do not mean is that users join Zaadz for selfish reasons. Individual benefits can include a sense of belonging, building one's social network, becoming more rersourceful in the various change projects that we are leading or participating in, etc. Zaadz is a great social enterprise just for providing a platform for all of that. But the opportunity is much larger.
It could also midwife the transcend-and-include passage from a community of learners to a community that learns, from a collection of intelligences to collective intelligence, from a network of individuals with shared interest in change to communities of practice with members who are engaged in jointly developing better change practices.
The pods reflect Zaadz' recognition of the emergent need for the latter, and they are a much appreciated baby step in the right direction. What else is needed is not simply more and better tools for collaboration, collective sensing, memory and meaning-making but an expansion of the business development strategies to include more attention and resources to cater to the needs communities of transformational practices as social organisms.
There's more about the difference between networks of interest and communities of practice in Using Emergence to Take Social Innovation to Scale.
While every user comes here for the individual benefit from the system, it is not difficult to anticipate the moment when world-changers will ask for a technology architecture expanded in the direction of more applications and tools for enhancing their collective capabilities.
What I do not mean is that users join Zaadz for selfish reasons. Individual benefits can include a sense of belonging, building one's social network, becoming more rersourceful in the various change projects that we are leading or participating in, etc. Zaadz is a great social enterprise just for providing a platform for all of that. But the opportunity is much larger.
It could also midwife the transcend-and-include passage from a community of learners to a community that learns, from a collection of intelligences to collective intelligence, from a network of individuals with shared interest in change to communities of practice with members who are engaged in jointly developing better change practices.
The pods reflect Zaadz' recognition of the emergent need for the latter, and they are a much appreciated baby step in the right direction. What else is needed is not simply more and better tools for collaboration, collective sensing, memory and meaning-making but an expansion of the business development strategies to include more attention and resources to cater to the needs communities of transformational practices as social organisms.
There's more about the difference between networks of interest and communities of practice in Using Emergence to Take Social Innovation to Scale.
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“What else is needed is not simply more and better tools for collaboration, collective sensing, memory and meaning-making but an expansion of the business development strategies to include more attention and resources to cater to the needs communities of transformational practices as social organisms.”
thanks George. would love to hear more about this as we go along. as a follow up question: in your view, what other social networking service (or Web 2.0 service, or a combination of services) out there are closer to your vision in terms of architecture and implementation?
btw, i also download Liberating the Innovation Value of Communities of Practice. will catch up with this :)
thanks again!
~C
George.I have read the article of Margret Wheatly some time ago. How far has evonexus evolved so far?
Regarding Zaadz I have recommended already roughly and unpolished at Integral leadership Review some more emergence to CoPs. Would like to hear what Brian says as CEO. The growth cycle of Zaadz as company AND learning community have to be in sync.
Best,
Albert
> The growth cycle of Zaadz as company AND learning community have to be in sync.
Would you say more about that and how it may illuminate this conversation?
As we have seen at I-I and many other entities….profitability and efficieny-however defined…..need special attention and momentum at the seed and start up levelof a conscious company. As far as I see Zaadz ist in start up modus and so the focus might -I do not know where the company is in terms of profitability -be right now to generate more momentum and laying the fundament.
Albert