Wikinomics
How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
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The idea of collaboration has always been used within the framework of board rooms, conferences, video conferencing and the likes. Yet now, the traditional scope of collaboration is moving into mass collaboration, in where millions and millions of individuals are able to play a role in the economy like never before. Through the Internet, massive online communities are breaking the walls down of traditional hierarchies and control and giving new rise to powerful new models of production based on community, collaboration and self-organization. These Web-enabled communities that are embracing the new art and science of mass collaboration, adding value, wealth and growth to businesses all work under what is known now as “Wikinomics.”
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