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Here Comes Everybody

The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

by Clay Shirky

Penguin Press, 2008

Category: Sales & Marketing

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Here Comes Everybody
In case you missed the cell-phone call, text message, wiki or blog, electronic communication is changing everything.

In this summary you will learn

  • How new electronic media are changing society
  • How they enable new forms of community
  • How to use them to spread your message

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Why you should read Here Comes Everybody

Author Clay Shirky tackles a daunting task: He sets out to explain how new electronic media are transforming society. In itself, that sounds common enough, but Shirky’s focus and specificity raise his book to a level of much greater value and utility than its peers. He examines the social nature of human beings, and analyzes how tools ranging from e-mail to text messages change the way people organize into groups. His style is easy, and he tells vivid, interesting and highly convincing stories to illustrate the changes he observes. The result is a book that anyone dealing with group organization and communication should read. getAbstract recommends this innovative work to marketers, social critics, readers interested in human nature, and entrepreneurs who hope to tap into or develop new social structures.

About the Author

Clay Shirky writes and consults on the cultural implications of the Internet, and serves on the faculty of the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University.


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  1. October 7, 2010 null
    The reviews of such books are only shallow exercises in futility. Both authors and reviewers lack the intellectual equipment to analyze their subject matter for implications or covert design. Such low-brow comic book approaches to the reality of literature is a glowing, radioactive sign of elemental intellectual decay. When I read this drivel, seeking useful information, its as if I am sifting through the ashes of a morons distorted view of pseudo reality.

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