Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams
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Book Reviews of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Book Review: Wikinomics Will Change the World
Summary: 5 Stars
The theme of this book is simple enough to understand and clearly stated at the beginning of the book: More minds and new technologies are allowing more people to share information and ideas, collaborate and innovate in ways the world has never seen, all of which will lead to more rapid and innovate change in the way we live our lives and interact with each other. The remainder of the book is merely examples of how this has happened and how the authors believe that the open sourcing of everything will continue to grow. The book was published in 2006 and while Facebook, flickr, Wikipedia and Linux, among other sites, were up and running and using mass collaboration and user-created content to gain popularity across the web, many more sites have become more popular in the past two years (YouTube or Twitter, for example). The trend will continue to grow. Companies large or small expecting to do well in the next decade will be left behind in the business world if they fight mass collaboration and the opening and transparency of their proprietary information to both their employees and their competitors. In short, resistance is futile. Mass collaboration is the future and the world can benefit immensely because of it. Let's hope we all do.Book Review: Helping ArmstrongAuctions.com succeed
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great book! Highly recommended.
I read about 5 - 8 business, marketing, technology and auction related books a month to stay on the cutting edge in my auction business. The internet is playing an increasingly important role in my industry and I have been studying about different ways to harness the power of the net to benefit our auction clients. A lot of what is out there is marginal at best....but not Wikinomics, I read this book with highlighter in hand and it is marked up all over the place.
My son and I spent 18 months and over $100K building the latest and greatest live online auction system, which is just about complete and ready to launch. We had lots of new features in mind that we thought would have to be added later...now we are going to use these ideas and bring them to market even quicker. Plus, I always knew there had to be more things possible that I haven't even thought of yet, by harnessing the power and the wisdom of everyone interested, I know we can bring a world class live online auction solution to market quickly and efficiently.
Thanks Don and everyone at Wikinomics, your work is very important and appreciated.
Alan Armstrong, President of ArmstrongAuctions.com, FlyBoysToys.com and Big Gavel Inc.
Book Review: Wicked Wikinomics
Summary: 4 Stars
This has to be the most straight forward explanation about social media to date. It is clear, and makes causal links throughout! GreatBook Review: Wow, What an eye opener!
Summary: 5 Stars
Wikinomics is a terrific book to open our eyes to what is happening in the workplace. As a middle school guidance counselor, I can see that we need to be teaching the student more about technology and how the work place is using it for collaboration. Thanks.Book Review: Useful but boring; perfect candidate for a Cliff's Notes version
Summary: 3 Stars
The essential messages imparted by the author of this book, all of which are important to understanding Web 2.0 concepts, could have been compressed by 50% or more, in my opinion, and made more readable. Nonetheless, with considerable effort to stay awake, I managed to slog my way through to the end.