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Hi all!

As promised earlier, I have returned to discuss my findings regarding the work featured above.

After travelling around with me to work, school, the park, & many other locations, my copy of Macrowikinomics is a little rough around the edges, but don't let that fool you. This book is tough, both literally and figuratively. Not having come from a marketing background, this book took some effort on my part to get through. Many times I wanted to give up, throw it out & never see it again, but a small part of me wanted to read a little further. 

If I had to choose two things that I have taken away from this book they would be that the world is in a greater need of immediate action over more industries than I was aware of, & the second would be an increase in my vocabulary. I am confident that I looked up more terms and words on Google over the past weeks than ever before. Arab Spring, P2P bankers, modus operandi, carbon markets & powder keg are just a few off the extensive list that have been added to my personal encyclopedia - one that is safe from the destruction, replacement or change coming to the educational system. 

Hello Friends, Family & Visitors, 

As I mentioned to you in a recent post, I am currently enrolled in continuing education..remember? For my most recent project in my social media marketing class I was asked to select a book related to the social world. Topics varied from the new web, others about the history of social, and some (as in the case for my selection) present the view of new. After much consideration on what it was that I wanted to get out of the class,  Macrowikinomics: New Solutions for a Connected Planet, seemed like the right fit. The work, co-authored by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams promised to provide me with an in depth look into the world of collaboration on a large scale as well as the way that it is changing the life cycle of how business connect with the consumer.

In their 2007 bestseller, Wikinomics Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams showed the world how mass collaboration was changing the way businesses communicate, create value, and compete in the new global marketplace. Now, in the wake of the global financial crisis, the principles of wikinomics have become more powerful than ever. 

Many of the institutions that have served us well for decades or centuries seem stuck in the past and unable to move forward. And yet, in every corner of the globe, a powerful new model of economic and social innovation is sweeping across all sectors-one where people with drive, passion, and expertise take advantage of new Web-based tools to get more involved in making the world more prosperous, just, and sustainable.

Tapscott and Williams show that in over a dozen fields-from finance to health care, science to education, the media to the environment-we have reached a historic turning point: cling to the old industrial-era paradigms or use collaborative innovation to revolutionize not only the way we work, but how we live, learn, create, govern, and care for one another. You'll meet innovators such as:

* An Iraq veteran whose start-up car company is "staffed" by over 4,500 competing designers and supplied by microfactories around the world * A microlending community where 570,000 individuals help fund new ventures-from Angola to Vietnam * An online community for people with life-altering diseases that also serves as a large-scale research project * An astronomer who is mapping the universe with the help of 250,000 citizen scientists

Tapscott and Williams once again use original research to provide vivid new examples of organizations that are successfully embracing the principles of wikinomics to change the world

http://www.macrowikinomics.com/

Don Tapscott  is one of the world's leading authorities on business strategy and how information technology changes business, government and society. Don is Chairman of nGenera Insight and directs several of Insight's research and education programs, serving a marquee list of Global 2000 customers. He served as founder and chairman of the international think tank New Paradigm before its acquisition by nGenera. Don was recently named one of the 50 most influential living management thinkers in the world by Thinkers50. He is an internationally sought writer, consultant and speaker. His clients include top executives of many of the world's largest corporations and government leaders from many countries. He is a fellow of the World Economic Forum and Adjunct Professor at the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Tapscott is the author of 13 widely-read books about information technology in business and society, including 2007's bestselling business book in the US, Wikinomics (co-authored with Anthony Williams), as well as Paradigm Shift, The Digital Economy, and The Naked Corporation. His most recent book, Grown Up Digital, is a sequel to his 1997 bestseller Growing Up Digital. Coming on September 28, 2010, Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World. Don holds a B.Sc. In Psychology and Statistics, an M.Ed. specializing in Research Methodology, and two Doctor of Laws (Hon) granted from the University of Alberta in 2001 and from Trent University in 2006.

Anthony D. Williams is a best-selling author, speaker and consultant who helps organizations worldwide harness the power of collaboration innovation in business, government and society. In 2007, he authored the groundbreaking bestseller Wikinomics with Don Tapscott and is set to release the much-anticipated follow-up Macrowikinomics on September 28, 2010.Anthony is currently a visiting fellow with the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto and a senior fellow for innovation with the Lisbon Council in Brussels. Among other appointments, he is also an advisor to GovLoop, the world's largest social network for government innovators and a founding fellow of the OpenForum Academy, a global research initiative focused on understanding the impact of open standards and open source on business and society. As a senior fellow at nGenera Insight, Anthony previously founded and led the world's definitive investigation into the impact of Web 2.0 and wikinomics on the future of governance and democracy. Anthony holds a Masters in Research in Political Science from the London School of Economics and lives in Toronto with his wife and two children.