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When Institute started work with Packard two years ago/When Heather was researching her book, few of these books had been written, few blogs existedSince then, there has been an explosion in study of networks, attempt to gain understandingExplosion in blogs (Beth’s blog), books (Clay Shirky), events, training
Obama has tried a number of interactive Internet applications for his governmentCitizen’s briefing book: initiated during the transition for citizens to submit their ideas to the president. 44,000 proposals and 1.4 million votesEmbarrassing results …. Highest ranking idea was about marijuana legalization (despite being in the middle of two wars and an economic recession) In March, Office of Science and Technology Policy crowd-sourced to see how to best become transparent Got good ideas as well as a bunch of unrelated, pithy debates Currently, Joe Biden and his “middleclass task force” asks for comments from web-users Also,Twitter, youtube, Facebook, Flickr all have whitehouse accounts to disseminate informationPositives of Gov 2.0Expectation that citizens are to be consulted about everything all the timeInternet, in democratizing access to facts and figures, encourages decisions based on facts Negatives of Gov 2.0Extermists (either positive or negative) are more likely to participate, pushing the moderate voice asideEasy to spread lies Groups can simulate support to take over the public voice
Many upsets in the industry: closures, jobs lost, bankruptcy filings Rocky Mountain News folded; Boston Globe up for sale; SF Chronicle struggling; Seattle PI has gone online-only; Conde Nast closes Portfolio magazineTribune Company filed for bankruptcy reorganization in December 2008; GateHouse Media effectively broke by mid-2008; Journal Register, Philadelphia Newspapers, and the Minneapolis Star-Tribune went into bankruptcy early in 2009.According to the American Society of News Editors, 2,400 full-time professional newsroom jobs were lost at American dailies in 2007 and 5,900 more in 2008.Newspaper ad revenues fallen 23% in last two years.Chart highlights continuing losses in newspaper circulation in the US: Losses accelerated to 4.6 % daily and 4.8% Sunday, in the six months ending 30 Sep 2008. Chart represents aggregate data for US newspapers. Source: Deutsche Bank Securities in “State of the News Media 2009.”Online news consumption increased: number of unique visitors to newspaper websites each month was up 15.8% to 65 million in the third quarter of 2008 over a year earlier.Source: “State of the News Media 2009,” Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism, www.stateofthemedia.org
Rise of non-profit (esp. investigative) and citizen journalism and new business modelsWeb allows news coverage to be increasingly “hyperlocal” Witness the rise of numerous online publications dedicated to covering only community news: Voice of San Diego, Chi-Town Daily News, MinnPost, New Haven Independent, Arizona GuardianVoice of San Diego: focuses on investigative reporting on local issues in San Diego. Maintains specific geographic focus without state or national coverage. Voice of San Diego, like many, is nonprofit corporation supported by foundations, donors, audience contributions, etc.Increasing popularity of news sites fostering amateur reporters filing pictures, stories, reports on local events: iReport, Twitter, uReportiReport: started by CNN, site contains user-generated content to tell the mainstream media about the “stories [they’re] not used to seeing”Twitter: during Mumbai terrorist attacks, information about militants and bloodshed posted in real time over Twitter News organizations experimenting with non-profit model and new business models, as revenue from traditional sources declines: Huffington Post, ProPublica, Global PostHuffington Post: over concern that layoffs at newspapers stunting investigative journalism, site announced it will collaborate with Atlantic Philanthropies to bankroll a group of investigative journalists (an initial budget of $1.75 million)ProPublica: seeing investigative journalism as being at risk (very expensive to produce), founders started non-profit organization with independent newsroom dedicated to investigative journalism (works with budget of $10 million)Global Post: focuses on international coverage. Content generated by correspondents who are paid in cash and given ownership in company—not staffers. Solicits ideas for stories from readers.“The advent of Internet and interactive web technologies has given rise to a new breed of citizen journalists, who are contributing and making news as the mainstream media.”Merinew, May 2, 2009“There is an option that might make [newspapers] stronger: Turn them into nonprofit, endowed institutions. [This] would enhance newspapers’ autonomy while shielding them from the economic forces that are now tearing them down.”New York Times, January 27,2009
Not organizations (or markets)Not 2-way partnerships or alliancesInformal networking (cocktail parties)
Top picture: “How to Improve Health for All” competitionBottom picture: “Tracking Trends and Ideas: Meeting Disaster” competition – entry: “Time to Take a Holistic View of disasters**Caption: “Indonesian children smile and cheer as U.S. Navy helicopters fly in purified water and relief supplies to a small village on the Island of Sumatra, Indonesia”
Determining the boundaries of the network: who is in and who is out?Communicating the value of networks: (Barr, Ocean Conservancy/ ICC)Internal organizational resistance: (Ocean Conservancy/ ICC; Habitat)Incentives not always aligned; organizations resist changeInnovators dilemmaBuilding trust:Between participants and the network leadership (Kiva, MoveOn.org, Save Darfur Coalition) Scaling and meeting resource demands: (Kiva)Tracking and evaluating impact: (All)Letting go of control; worrying about getting “credit”
Work on networks over the past couple years… been trying to tease out:What does a healthy network look like?Very subjective concept, just like for us – young, old, male, femaleThat said – just like with people, does seem to be a general consensus on what healthy tends to be, and conversely what unhealthy tends to be
Need more chaotic picture …. Lots of people (people organizing outside of office) -- like a rally, community organizing Biological metaphor (like ant hill or honeycomb) put 2 or 3 and she’ll pick one