Gabriella Coleman and Karim Lakhani on How People Work Together Online

Panel discussion via http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/06/collaboration-instead-of-the-crowd-gabriella-coleman-karim-lakhani-on-how-people-work-together-online/

Description

"Above you’ll see two people who know a lot about that software world talking about what they’ve learned about how collaborative communities work. This is a video of a plenary session at the recent Future of News and Civic Media Conference at MIT. The lineup: Gabriella Coleman, an NYU professor who studies online collaboration, particularly in the Debian Linux community; Karim Lakhani, the Harvard Business School professor, who studies distributed innovation systems and who has also spent a lot of time looking at the software world; and moderator Chris Csikszentmihályi, director of the MIT Center for Future Civic Media.

They know the “crowd” can do amazing things, but they also know it’s really, really hard to optimize systems to ensure amazement happens. Give them a listen." (http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/06/collaboration-instead-of-the-crowd-gabriella-coleman-karim-lakhani-on-how-people-work-together-online/)