About

This blog is a vehicle (a hub) for rants, discussions and resources having to do with social and organizational systems dynamics, and (often, but not always) how said dynamics intersect with developing social technologies. This broad topic includes: collective intelligence, social software, smartmobs technology, social engineering, social networks, etc.

These ideas are getting a lot of academic and corporate action right now. They’re working their way into scores upon scores of developing mobile devices and cutting-edge internet tools. At the same time, “social systems” as a coherent discipline is still hovering on the periphery of public awareness like a shy prom date. The ideas are generally portrayed as esoteric and academic, and even when they’re presented well, they can be a serious mental stretch to think or talk about. Either you don’t get it, or it’s like reading science fiction.

So, social systems concepts are whizzing around everywhere. They’re the foundations behind half of the hardware tools and applications we use all day long, and are developing with dizzying speed, but very few people without master’s degrees can use the basic lingo. This blog, and my associated website, Yggdrasil, are written so that anybody at all can access social/organizational systems ideas and start to grok their implications. The site/blog also provide tools for laymen and intermediates to talk about the ramifications of (or logically dismantle) those ideas in a public forum.

Moreover, it’s a place for folks to access and logically dismantle my social/organizational systems ideas. The more public debate my posts generate, from friends, strangers, experts or the idly curious, the happer I am.

So, in other words: comment, folks.