From YouTube to FanFiction to Twitter and Facebook, social networking tools are everywhere. The Web 2.0 is uniting people throughout our world to share and discuss ideas. We can connect with experts from other countries, friends from all parts of the world and even strangers with common interests. The internet has become a powerful tool.
In this book, also titled "The Power of Organizing Without Organizations", Clay Shirky relates a number of anecdotes to demonstrate the power of social media to connect people and organizations. Whether in business, education, media or our personal lives can these tools be used responsibly and ethically to improve society? Or, will they create more problems than benefits? How will communication change in the future and how will this affect mankind?
How will we keep up with the voluminous fountain of information cascading all around us? We are living in one of the fastest changing eras in time and this is in turn exciting and overwhelming all at once.
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