Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Taps Don, Anthony D. Williams Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Book Review: Great Listen
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an easy read or listen. Very enlightening to understanding the impact of small contributions by many members of a community.Book Review: A Necessity for all Business People to Read
Summary: 5 Stars
I am using Wikinomics as a learning tool with the four executive peer groups I manage as part of Vistage International. This books is stimulating even the most conservative and traditional members of my groups to begin re-thinking their business models. It's unbelievable refreshing to see and hear all the excitement that ideas with Wikinomics are creating in my groups real life business strategies.Book Review: Mixed Emotions
Summary: 4 Stars
In general, I found this book to be about 33 1/3% too long for the material the authors had to share. Some of the writing and thoughts are excellent and will challenge your thinking and enlighten you. Other times, they plod through relatively familiar territory without really going anywhere. I recommend it with caveats.Book Review: Handbok for a Web 2.0 world
Summary: 5 Stars
If you think "The Long Tail" and "The World Is Flat" explain the upheavals we are experiencing in marketing and communications, Wikinomics comes across as a handbook for our so-called Web 2.0 world.
The concept of 'opening up the kimona' to build trust isn't easy in a world where gatekeepers still rule and walled-gardens have their place. But collaboration could and does exist in spite of them.
I liked the fact that the authors created a collaborative framework for one chapter of the book, using (what else?) a Wiki. This "unfinished chapter" asked readers, to "Be bold," and add new content, even do some fact-checking.
The book arrived at a perfect time when there was essentially no handbook for the web 2.o economy. How many times have you sat through a 'social media' presentation and heard the phrase "we make up the rules as we go?" It's a great source of confidence for organizations terrified by how citizen journalism, crowd sourcing, video sharing, podcasts and the chatter of the blogosphere might derail their carefully calibrated brands. Wikinomics (defined by the authors as "the perfect storm of technology, demographics and global economics") can be a powerful force in almost any industry.
Let's face it, `storms' are not always fun. They can be devastating, and change the landscape in an instant. But if you live and work in areas where the gale-force winds of innovation and collaboration are going to blow through anyway, why board up your windows and wait it out, when you can do something about it? A lot of business books lean on the side of being 80% theoretical, 20% practical. This one's peppered with examples of how organizations such as BMW. Lego and MIT (publishing `open source text books") tapped into the power of collaboration.
Book Review: frigthening
Summary: 1 Stars
It is frightening that such shallow pamphlet style writing claims to bring forward innovative ideas just by going on and on with redundant phrases, mixing them with rather rare mention of interesting facts and figures and neglecting simple core questions of economy.
the authors claim that the book is working along the lines of what it claims to be characteristic for what it analysis, i.e. openness, cooperation ... . If the quality of the book is similar to the quality of wikinomics-outcomes in general, a dark future looms up at the horizon: shallow, a rosy air bubble that will leave as many victims as crashing twin-towers.