gocrosscampus and shirky’s ladder of group undertaking
Friday, March 21st, 2008update: so there’s more to this story. see this and this.
i’ve been reading clay shirky’s “here comes everybody”. in chapter 2, he describes group undertakings as a ladder of three rungs: sharing, cooperation, and collective action. each rung becomes increasingly more difficult to achieve he says, but his point is that todays online tools - flickr, delicious, et al. - enable easier “ladder climbing”. at the time of writing, collective action examples were scarce, but recently i’ve come across two.
today’s new york times has an article about GoCrossCampus, an online risk-type game pitting campuses and their entities against one another. Google is said to have intentions of bringing it to their New York office, where sales departments and engineering groups will compete.
a second example is Ultimatums, a facebook application which lets users float an idea, set an arbitrary “tipping point” and track group members’ commitment to their common goal.
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