I’m a believer that the future belongs to video. I assert that the dominant communications medium from here on is the internet; the primary character of that medium will be video; and online communication will, therefore, require video skills. The data below suggests why I think this is the case. Cisco Systems–a key supplier of hardware for the internet’s infrastructure–has ...

In yesterday’s post I focused on the growing perception by some people–especially young ones–that traditional cause-oriented organizations aren’t very agile, and it’s difficult to have much influence in them. So they’re going around established institutions and generating advocacy movements almost spontaneously using tools familiar to them like blogs and social networks: what Clay Shirkey calls “organizing without organizations.” Most activist ...

In his recently published book Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, Clay Shirky argues changes in how we communicate change how we form community. Changes in the technology of communication over the past couple of millennia brought us in the 20th Century to where we could effectively organize thousands of people to accomplish specific tasks by compensating ...

As I’ve mentioned before, the Obama Administration is the first intenet administration and is using the internet strategies of their successful election campaign to open up public input. The Washington Post this morning has an article about how they’re using social netsworking strategies to get input about health care reform. The article is “Obama Policymakers Turn to Campaign Tools Network ...