Author Archives: David Collin

How to increase participation and generosity

Here’s Clay Shirky’s Pop!Tech presentation about how to design social networks for greater generosity and participation. Important implications for nonprofits. @ Yahoo! Video

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Running as fast as I can to stay in place…

I think this is what they call the Red Queen Effect. In Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass the Red Queen told Alice, “It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.” No sooner had I posted the video about Health 2.0 than I ran into the following statement in an ad for a conference ...

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Health and Medicine 2.0

With almost everything bearing the “2.0” label these days, I suppose it’s not surprising that we’d get Health 2.0 and Medicine 2.0. They’re really complementary ideas. They emphasize a more patient- or consumer-centered view of the health model. This video is about Health and Medicine 2.0 and their . The qualities of the new model include: participation, collaboration, “apomediation,” openness, ...

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Practice saving the world

FISpace is about the future and innovation. Want to practice collaborating with others to solve some hella problems? Then check out SUPERSTRUCT, the first massively multiplayer forecasting game. It was created by the Institute for the Future to use multiplayer gaming to see how people solve complex problems like the ones the world will face in the 21st Century. We’re ...

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