Changing behaviours: the power of social & platforms

Editor's Notes

• #24: Cathedral and Bazaar is an essay, then book, by Eric S. Raymond on software engineering methods Illustrates the struggle between top-down and bottom-up design The Cathedral model: restricted access to code, code only available with each software release – controlled / limited / restricted / closed The Bazaar model, in which the code is developed over the Internet in view of the public Raymond's proposition that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" - the more openly and widely available the source code is for public testing, scrutiny, and experimentation, the more rapidly all forms of bugs will be discovered. Raymond claims that an inordinate amount of time and energy must be spent hunting for bugs in the Cathedral model, since the working version of the code is available only to a few developers.
• #26: Why platforms are the new power Old power won’t deliver what we need to
• #29: Social platforms Social platforms include more tightly defined communities of interest that come together around specific shared interests like certain genres of music, types of sports or academic disciplines like history or economics. They tend to foster mesh networks of relationships rather than hub and spoke interactions E.g. Facebook, Twitter, 2. Mobilisation platforms Mobilization platforms ultimately focus on mobilising participants to engage in some kind of collaborative effort that will take considerable time to accomplish Because of the need for collaborative action over time, these platforms tend to foster longer-term relationships rather than focusing on isolated and short-term transactions or tasks 3. Learning platforms Explicit goal to create environments where participants can learn faster and individually achieve higher and higher levels of performance as more and more participants join the platform E.g. School for Health and Care Radicals, World of Warcraft 4. Aggregation platforms The basic focus of these platforms is to bring together a broad array of relevant resources and help users of the platform to connect with the most appropriate resources.  E.g. EBay Transactional & task focussed (Need > response > deal > move on) Hub & spoke model – all transactions are brokered by platform owner/organiser 
• #38: Social Business Discussions Are The New Documentation http://www.informationweek.com/software/social/social-business-discussions-are-the-new-documentation/d/d-id/898942 Gadgets & devices once came with printed user instructions / manuals Inside organisations, the problem is the opposite – very little to no documentation (particularly about tacit knowledge) When employees work out loud in a transparent social platform, they are documenting their tools and processes on the fly as they build them. 
• #39: Olly: “If you are a computer programmer you don’t even bother reading the manual; you simply use stackoverflow to answer all your questions: http://stackoverflow.com/” Stack Overflow is a self-moderating question and answer site for professional and enthusiast programmers. It's built and run by you as part of the Stack Exchange network of Q&A sites. With your help, we're working together to build a library of detailed answers to every question about programming. We're a little bit different from other sites. Stack Overflow is run by you! If you want to help us run Stack Overflow, you’ll need reputation first. Reputation is a (very) rough measurement of how much the Stack Overflow community trusts you. Reputation is never given, it is earned by convincing other Stack Overflow users that you know what you’re talking about.