Collective Intelligence
November 9, 2008
jtzunum
For me there is a fairly thin line with a community practices and collective intelligence. They kind of go hand in hand. Sort of a cause and effect situation. The Intelligence you gather from your community of practice is basically what this blog is about. I’m trying to not sound like a broken record. Collective intelligence is people coming together to network their knowledge. Sort of like compounding a database for a particular purpose. A lot of what we know in this world is from experience or troubleshooting. Writing books about it nowadays isn’t nearly as effective and coming together, more than likely online, and putting it all together as one. Wikipedia brings a good point up about copyrighting. This sharing is so broad that it would be hard to copyright but people do have opposing views as to whether it should be done for protection. The Wiki site wasn’t as concentrated as I would have wanted it to be, but it did highlight some good points. There are groups that see Collective Intelligence as participation in the theft of ideas or individualism. I can see how that would be seen as a problem but it really isn’t what’s going on. Sure everything is in the same place but no one else is recognizing it as their own. You can’t be negative to greedy when it comes to intelligence. Wouldn’t make sense to be selfish and just be a know it all anyway. The idea is simple but not new. MIT has compared it to the time when we had a hunting and gathering society. Back then you couldn’t read a book or look it up. It was an experience or experiment with a new technique that was shared and made known or popular. Word of mouth was the distributor. In today’s era, we type it out, but all in all the process is shared even today.
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mghorka | November 11, 2008 at 9:24 am
I agree that Collective Intelligence and Communities of Practice do go pretty much hand in hand in that they deal with the same thing.
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jimmydlg | November 11, 2008 at 10:20 am
I think it’s important to remember though that Collective Intelligence is describing the intelligence that arises from the community that exists, where is CoP describe the communities themselves. They do go hand in hand, but the definitions are quite different.
Also, Collective Intelligence can form seperate from communities of practice, where as I think all communities of practice would bring about some degree of collective intelligence. But I do agree that they go together well.
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logojones | November 11, 2008 at 8:31 pm
That is what I said it is nothing new. I never thought about the copyright issue. I don’t think anyone would be able to copyright any of the stuff. I also like the terminology of experience of try and fail.
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mariam8099 | November 11, 2008 at 8:59 pm
You are right its like learning from the past there was no books or anything else it was by looking telling others no difference from what were doing todays world instead of just looking & talking about it were also putting it down on the internet and other ways. So i think that COP and collectve intelligence is simiar to a certain extent just how ya work in it just a bit different.