{"id":1781,"date":"2013-08-08T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T17:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2013-07-16T10:37:15","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T17:37:15","slug":"create-and-nurture-your-collective-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/?p=1781","title":{"rendered":"Create and nurture your collective intelligence."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the MIT Center of Collective Intelligence, professors and graduate students are wrestling with an important opportunity \u2013 and gaining ground.\u00a0 With new collaborative tools available for use in the cloud,\u00a0\u00a0 people are no longer isolated in their creative endeavors. Some label this \u201ccrowdsourcing,\u201d a term used to describe one form of this new empowerment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DB-Concordia2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1505\" alt=\"DB Concordia2\" src=\"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DB-Concordia2-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>How do you use the new tools for collaboration to enable people and computers to be connected so that collectively they act more intelligently than any individual?\u00a0 MIT has come a long way in identifying tools and techniques.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><em>[Email readers, continue here&#8230;]<\/em><\/span>\u00a0 You can do the same.\u00a0 First, realize that no individual in your organization, including yourself, is as effective alone as with collaborative help from peers.\u00a0 Then find ways to build concepts, plans, documents, and actions through the collective collaboration of your key group.\u00a0 Explore and implement one of the many collaborative environments available through cloud computing, products from Microsoft, Google, IBM, and others.<\/p>\n<p>Test the system. Create a document with your basic plan or idea for action.\u00a0 Post the document using one of these common tools and invite members of your group to add to or comment upon this beginning effort.\u00a0 Respond and build upon the result.\u00a0 You will note that within a short time, you will have created a plan or document usually far better than if you had worked alone.\u00a0 And the added benefit is that the group will feel ownership in the result, a powerful step toward a successful outcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the MIT Center of Collective Intelligence, professors and graduate students are wrestling with an important opportunity \u2013 and gaining ground.\u00a0 With new collaborative tools available for use in the cloud,\u00a0\u00a0 people are no longer isolated in their creative endeavors. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/?p=1781\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growth"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}