I finally started reading Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody, but am already underlining parts that jump out at me. For example:
Collective action… is the hardest kind of group effort, as it requires a group of people to commit themselves to undertaking a particular effort together, and to do so in a way that makes the [...]

Or what DT said:
Maybe we can organize some joint events and get the 4 or more groups connected. A discussion ensued about the power of connecting nodes – with Metcalfe’s law suggesting the value of the network is proportional to the square of the number of users of the system, and Reed’s law suggesting [...]

Connections are important, incredibly useful things. They stop us drifting, provide anchors, but also form new points for us to push off from.
Toby Moores, David Terrar and Alex Craxton had already made a connection when they got together one Wednesday morning in London at the Creative Coffee Club and got chatting about the power of [...]