As we had discussed with our group I found the most important concept to be collective intelligence and crowd sourcing. No matter what your career goals are there will be a very good chance that you at some point will work with, or discuss with other groups. The collective idea will be able to typically exceed the work of a single individual.
It is important to be able to have this social ability, to work collectively. Especially in a digital world there are now even more possibilities to interconnect everyone in completing goals.
FYI: when I ask for a 2 part blog, you can just put them in one post. I'm curious what you make of crowdsourcing and the sensory devices the article talked about? This difference between Web2.0 and Web Squared is likely (forgive the cliche) the wave of the future. Particularly given the handheld revolution. In your next post, try to reference the reading a little more directly.
ReplyDeleteWhile working collectively is a valuable skill, the article didn't necessarily talk about forced collaboration or literal group "work." It talked more about passive, individualistic contributions to a greater whole. I.E. Wikipedia, that harnesses the collective intelligence of all its contributors but it has nothing to do with group-effort situations where multiple people work together on a project.
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