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Smart Mobs and Cool Tools for Change Paul Schumann The Innovation Road Map

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Smart Mobs <ul><li>Smart mobs consist of people who are able to act in concert even if they don’t know each other. </li></ul><ul><li>Non zero sum games result in social structures with rich potential facilitating the growth of social complexity. </li></ul><ul><li>Creation of an augmented reality </li></ul><ul><li>Complexity </li></ul><ul><li>Emergence </li></ul><ul><li>Abundant resource commons </li></ul><ul><li>Resources </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Smart Mobs (http://www.theinnovationroadmap.com/Magazine/Articles/SmartMobs.pdf) </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Innovation Commons (http://innovationcommons.blogspot.com & http://www.innovationcommons.net) </li></ul></ul>

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General Observations on Cool Tools <ul><li>The &quot;Open Source&quot; model of development is gaining acceptance </li></ul><ul><li>One of the first applications of this model is in nonprofits (it fits the logic) </li></ul><ul><li>&quot;Open Source&quot; applications are spreading (concept of forges) </li></ul><ul><li>Forges are being started for nonprofits (i.e. OrgForge.org) </li></ul><ul><li>&quot;Open Source&quot; software is fueling the development of nonprofit applications </li></ul><ul><li>The benchmark system for nonprofits is DeanSpace (www.deanspace.org), a highly successful, grass roots, fundraising and organizing system developed by volunteers for volunteers, for the Dean presidential campaign. It used &quot;Open Source&quot; software modules obtained from SourceForge. There is a lot of excitement and energy around this project. I believe it represents the precursor of highly evolved self-organizing systems of the future. </li></ul><ul><li>CivicSpace (www.civicspace.org) is replacing DeanSpace </li></ul><ul><li>This movement may be the precursor to the way work and education is done in the future. </li></ul><ul><li>Nonprofit web sites need to be organized around the various customers and how they use the web site, rather than around the functions of the organization. </li></ul><ul><li>A lot of &quot;cool tools&quot; are being developed, but there is little or no structure for how these tools interact with each other, or how social change occurs </li></ul><ul><li>Cool Tools for Change is a source of information and software (www.cooltoolsforchange.org) </li></ul>

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Types of Cool Tools <ul><li>GroupWare </li></ul><ul><li>Blogs </li></ul><ul><li>Web Sites </li></ul><ul><li>Wikis* </li></ul><ul><li>Bulletin Boards & Discussions </li></ul><ul><li>Meetups </li></ul><ul><li>Calendaring </li></ul><ul><li>Content Management Systems </li></ul><ul><li>Online Fundraising </li></ul><ul><li>Project Management </li></ul><ul><li>Surveys </li></ul><ul><li>E-Mail </li></ul><ul><li>Networking </li></ul><ul><li>PDs </li></ul><ul><li>Podcasting </li></ul>* Austin Education 2025 (http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/austineducation2025/

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Resources <ul><li>Sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/index.php) </li></ul><ul><li>HotScripts.com (http://www.hotscripts.com/) </li></ul><ul><li>CommunityNetworking.org (http://www.communitynetworking.org/) </li></ul><ul><li>All About Computers, the Internet and the Web (http://www.mapnp.org/library/infomgnt/infomgnt.htm) </li></ul><ul><li>TechSoup (http://www.techsoup.org/) </li></ul><ul><li>NTEN (http://www.nten.org/) </li></ul><ul><li>CompuMentor (http://www.compumentor.org/) </li></ul><ul><li>The Nonprofit Open Source Initiative (http://www.nosi.net/) </li></ul>