Newbies Quick Guide on Collective Intelligence

Is Collective Intelligence hype or the next “big thing”. I believe it is real and much bigger than all the other stuff crammed into Web 2.0. Unlike blogs, wikis, and social networks, corporate people understand the value of solving problems. Take your standard social network, divide up labor into Solvers, Seekers, and Facilitators, add some vertical expertise and you have an online problem solving machine. To learn more check out ECMHUB.org. In the meantime get educated:

YouTube:

Collective Intelligence: Vision
Collective Intelligence: Community
Collective Intelligence: Spiritual Connection

Wikipedia:

Collective intelligence is a form of intelligence that emerges from the collaboration and competition of many individuals. Collective intelligence appears in a wide variety of forms of consensus decision making in bacteria, animals, humans, and computers. The study of collective intelligence may properly be considered a subfield of sociology, of business, of computer science, and of mass behavior — a field that studies collective behavior from the level of quarks to the level of bacterial, plant, animal, and human societies.

MIT Center for Collective Intelligence :

While people have talked about collective intelligence for decades, new communication technologies—especially the Internet—now allow huge numbers of people all over the planet to work together in new ways. The recent successes of systems like Google and Wikipedia suggest that the time is now ripe for many more such systems, and the goal of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence is to understand how to take advantage of these possibilities.

ECMINSTITUTE:

Collective intelligence is a scientific term used to describe a new form of intelligence that emerges when many individuals simultaneously collaborates and competes to solve problems. Today, Web 2.0 provides an exciting framework for organizations to reach out to experts from around the world to solve everyday problems. For instance, in enterprise content management, why develop your own file plan in records management when it already exists? Or maybe you have your own image database and you want to improve search performance?

At the ECMINSTITUTE we attempt to remove boundaries between organizations. Instead of struggling to solve problems internally, we help organizations look outward across the industry. We believe that a network of independent ECM professionals have the combined wisdom to look at problems with a unique perspective. They also are unconstrained by corporate culture, politics, or predispositions and in a much better position to uncover a diamond in the rough.