MIT Collective Intelligence Laboratory launches the first wiki project to publishish a book

[Robert Staple <robertstaple@yahoo.ca>]

MIT Collective Intelligence Laboratory launches the first wiki 
project to publish a book. The book will be written and published 
by a community of users. Here is an invitation that was sent to 
MIT Sloan community:

   The focus of our new book, tentatively titled We Are Smarter 
Than Me, is just that: a guide to the landscape of community 
knowledge and the identification of key principles to harness it. 
Organized initially around the major business functions and 
processes, the book will contain case studies of successes and 
failures, and commentary on the lessons learned. But most 
importantly, this book will (we hope) be written by hundreds or 
thousands of people, each listed as an author. Using wiki 
technology, the purpose of our experiment is to determine whether 
a community approach applies to book-writing, and to harness the 
knowledge of the community to advance the state of management. 
You can learn more about how this will work by visiting 
http://www.WeAreSmarter.org

   You are invited to participate in the project in a variety of 
ways. This would include, but not limited to, making 
contributions to current chapters, or creating new chapters if 
you believe the current structure is too constraining (you can 
review the current chapter structure on the website). Or you can 
simply monitor the chapter(s) you feel are most relevant, and you 
can provide commentary and content as you feel necessary. If you 
are interested in participating in this project, please visit 
http://www.WeAreSmarter.org to learn more about the project and 
to sign-up as a project participant.

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