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Wikinomics Book Launch
Published on 11/01/07
by willpate
I took some pictures of the Wikinomics book launch in Toronto this evening. For a book about collaboration, the presentation was a missed opportunity to demonstrate some of the ideas, but nonetheless accessible for the audience. Never before have so many people in suits gathered in one room to hear about wikis, perhaps only the Web 2.0 Conference could rival it.
I’ve heard rumbles of discontent amongst the people who work in these spaces about the author Don Tapscott making a mint off their ideas without him having any citizenship in the culture, but I think he serves a vital role in explaining technology trends to the business world. He’s a translator and a diplomat, roles I understand well.
It was interesting to overhear Tom credit the early strong sales of this book to the buzz about it on blogs. That would be a perfect story for CaseCamp.
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» Wikinomics Launch: Web 2.0 for Business has gone critical
12/01/07
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Mike Dover
12/01/07
Hey Will:
I’m glad you made it…and don’t worry, most of us at New Paradigm are loathe to wear a suit…
Luckily Don only publishes a book every other year or so.
Mike
Wikinomics pushes Web 2.0 mainstream » Mathew Ingram: mathewingram.com/work
13/01/07
[...] Along with Toronto blogosphere luminaries such as David Crow of Ambient Vector and DemoCamp fame, Mark Kuznicki of Remarkk, ex-Flockster Will Pate (soon to be a Torontonian, I hear), Eli Singer of CaseCamp and Tom Purves of firestoker, I attended the launch of Don Tapscott’s new book Wikinomics — subtitled “How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything” — on Thursday at U of T. My first thought? Bob Rae looks a bit like a Muppet character. [...]
Stephen Pate
13/01/07
Don Tapscott is a has been who hasn’t had an original idea in 15 years. He just grinds out one tech book after another - look ma! I’m a techno John the Baptist.
Read his first book if you want a history lesson “Paradigm Shirt” - for a year everyone was saying Paradigm Shift this and Paradigm Shift that until only losers did.
Mike Dover
13/01/07
Steve:
The book has got good reviews, even from the hardcore Toronto tech blog community.
It was based on a lot of serious research from a strong team including Joe Pine, Bruce Rogow, John Seely Brown, and many others.
I’m not asking you to buy a copy, but at least have a look at the free chapter that you can download from the New Paradigm web site.
(Full disclosure — I was the leader of said research team)
Mike
Richard
15/01/07
“Don Tapscott is a has been who hasn’t had an original idea in 15 years.”
So what? As Will says, he’s a translator and a diplomat. I read Growing Up Digital, and none of the ideas at the time were mind-blowing, but at least he was right, that kids understood computers as second-nature because they grew up with them. Not an original idea at the time, but there were still people who needed convincing that the Internet back then wasn’t necessarily a scary thing for kids to use.
I saw the book in the store and balked at the cover price, but I have it on reserve at the library. It’ll be interesting to see what a popularizer thinks of the tools and processes *I* consider second-nature.
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