This is not new - not in the public space. Dan and others has proven that long time ago.
“The one-to-many road of traditional journalism, yes, it is threatened. And professional journalists need to acclimate themselves to an environment in which there are many more contributors to the discourse,” says Mr Nachison.
“The notion of a gatekeeper who filters and decides what’s acceptable for public consumption and what isn’t, that’s gone forever.”
“With people now walking around with information devices in their pockets, like camera or video phones, we are going to see more instances of ordinary citizens breaking stories.”
What interests me in particular is what it mean in a business context. Imagine which requirements is demanded in future leadership where the powerbase is distributed to those who in fact has the power because of what they do, what they communicate, which personal networks the grow and not because of the titles on their business cards and rigid organisational rank.
Interesting, huh?
Via Trevor
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yeah … distribted power bases … it’s happening every day in this interconnected, interactive world … but/and so many organizations have that org chart, and job descriptions and a very ordered, rigid structure (notwithstanding that people are communicating everywhich way and that the flows of knowledge and action often have little to do withe the org chart)… Do you know the field of Social Network Analysis (SNA) … Valdis Krebs is the main guru, and much of his seminal work is here.
As everyone knows (or is supposed to know) we are moving out of the Industrial Age (mass production, hierarchy, etc) to the Info/Knowledge/Relationship Age, with all the talk of transparency, connection, linkage, distributed networks, etc.
Humans use “archy” words for archetypal systems of governance and organization … such as patriarchy, matriarchy, oligarchy, etc. We don’t have such a word, yet, for this new era, though the concepts of distributed networks and distributed power bases are apparent and clearly growing in reach and impact. I’ve been working for 4 or 5 years on the concept of “wirearchy” … and I’d be interested to know what your opinion is (www.wirearchy.com)
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