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	Opening a project up to a broader community of participants has significant benefits. Open source projects have been using communities for years to write high quality software benefiting from collaboration and innovation among a diverse group of participants. A similar model has been used by other online communities focused on user generated content. For example, sites like Wikipedia would never have been successful without a large number of people from diverse backgrounds and cultures working collaboratively to share expertise, monitor the content, and correct errors as needed. We hope that the content in this book applies to a variety of communities open source, commercial developer communities, wiki communities, social communities, and more.		Opening a project up to a broader community of participants has significant benefits. Open source projects have been using communities for years to write high quality software benefiting from collaboration and innovation among a diverse group of participants. A similar model has been used by other online communities focused on user generated content. For example, sites like Wikipedia would never have been successful without a large number of people from diverse backgrounds and cultures working collaboratively to share expertise, monitor the content, and correct errors as needed. We hope that the content in this book applies to a variety of communities open source, commercial developer communities, wiki communities, social communities, and more.
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	Opening a project up to a broader community of participants has significant benefits. Open source projects have been using communities for years to write high quality software benefiting from collaboration and innovation among a diverse group of participants. A similar model has been used by other online communities focused on user generated content. For example, sites like Wikipedia would never have been successful without a large number of people from diverse backgrounds and cultures working collaboratively to share expertise, monitor the content, and correct errors as needed. We hope that the content in this book applies to a variety of communities open source, commercial developer communities, wiki communities, social communities, and more.		Opening a project up to a broader community of participants has significant benefits. Open source projects have been using communities for years to write high quality software benefiting from collaboration and innovation among a diverse group of participants. A similar model has been used by other online communities focused on user generated content. For example, sites like Wikipedia would never have been successful without a large number of people from diverse backgrounds and cultures working collaboratively to share expertise, monitor the content, and correct errors as needed. We hope that the content in this book applies to a variety of communities open source, commercial developer communities, wiki communities, social communities, and more.

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-	Opening a project up to a broader community of participants has significant benefits. Open source projects have been using communities for years to write high quality software benefiting from collaboration and innovation among a diverse group of participants. A similar model has been used by other online communities focused on user generated content. For example, sites like Wikipedia would never have been successful without a large number of people from diverse backgrounds and cultures working collaboratively to share expertise, monitor the content, and correct errors as needed.	+	Opening a project up to a broader community of participants has significant benefits. Open source projects have been using communities for years to write high quality software benefiting from collaboration and innovation among a diverse group of participants. A similar model has been used by other online communities focused on user generated content. For example, sites like Wikipedia would never have been successful without a large number of people from diverse backgrounds and cultures working collaboratively to share expertise, monitor the content, and correct errors as needed. We hope that the content in this book applies to a variety of communities open source, commercial developer communities, wiki communities, social communities, and more.

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		+	Opening a project up to a broader community of participants has significant benefits. Open source projects have been using communities for years to write high quality software benefiting from collaboration and innovation among a diverse group of participants. A similar model has been used by other online communities focused on user generated content. For example, sites like Wikipedia would never have been successful without a large number of people from diverse backgrounds and cultures working collaboratively to share expertise, monitor the content, and correct errors as needed.

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Summary

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	==Summary==		==Summary==
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	Collaboration, innovation, and diversity all work together as benefits for creating an online community with collaboration and diversity both feeding innovation. Thomas Friedman says:		Collaboration, innovation, and diversity all work together as benefits for creating an online community with collaboration and diversity both feeding innovation. Thomas Friedman says:

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Notes

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	It is this triple convergence – of new players, on a new playing field, developing new processes and habits for horizontal collaboration – that I believe is the more important force shaping global economics and politics in the early twenty-first century. Giving so many people access to all these tools of collaboration, along with the ability of search engines and the Web to access billions of pages of raw information, ensures that the next generation of Innovations will come from Planet Flat. The scale of the global community that is going to be able to participate in all sorts of discovery and innovation is something that the world has simply never seen before."<ref>This quote comes from [http://www.thomaslfriedman.com/worldisflat.htm The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century] by Thomas L. Friedman pages 176 - 177 and 181 - 182.</ref></blockquote>		It is this triple convergence – of new players, on a new playing field, developing new processes and habits for horizontal collaboration – that I believe is the more important force shaping global economics and politics in the early twenty-first century. Giving so many people access to all these tools of collaboration, along with the ability of search engines and the Web to access billions of pages of raw information, ensures that the next generation of Innovations will come from Planet Flat. The scale of the global community that is going to be able to participate in all sorts of discovery and innovation is something that the world has simply never seen before."<ref>This quote comes from [http://www.thomaslfriedman.com/worldisflat.htm The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century] by Thomas L. Friedman pages 176 - 177 and 181 - 182.</ref></blockquote>

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-	~~Ch 2 Outline~~: <br>	+	Podcasts / Vignettes: <br>
-	* ~~Benefits of Creating a Community <br> (Suggested Vignette –~~ Eric Von Hippel, Chris DiBona~~)<br>~~	+	* Eric Von Hippel
-	* Intro<br>What are the benefits of creating a community and allowing many people to participate rather than having involvement only from a few people within a small, elite group?<br>	+	* Chris DiBona
-	* Collaboration<br>	+
-	* Communities provide an opportunity to collaborate on a variety of topics. In open source software communities, developers can work together, share ideas, review code contributions from others, and submit new code in a coordinated fashion. Social communities like digg and Newsvine provide a place for users to contribute news stories, vote for the best ones, and comment on them with additional information.<br>	+
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-	* Communities have a unique opportunity for innovation, especially innovations that are created by users or that build on the ideas of other people. Eric von Hippel discusses how innovation communities where users innovate to create products that will be useful to other users. Firefox extensions and themes are a great example of user innovations shared within the community of Firefox developers and users.<br>	+
-	* Diversity and Global Talent<br>	+
-	Each person has a different perspective and different ways of looking at a problem based on her background. Culture, experience, education, gender, country, and more make each of us unique allowing us to bring very different perspectives to a community. Global communities can be especially beneficial in corporations as organizations try to take advantage of talent regardless of the location.<br>	+

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