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15 May 07
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I've been thinking about what it means to be a thought leader in a time where the tools to deliver thoughts globally are easier to use and more available than at any time in human history.
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you have a perfect storm of communication methods that is perfect for thought leaders to deliver big thoughts and facilitate the conversation.
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What's missing? Aggregators of thought leaders coupled with community networks. Corante is one organization that has done a fine job of pulling together thought leaders into one core group around subject categories. Another fine one is ManyWorlds. These and others do not, however, facilitate the conversation in my opinion. They're set as experts or thought leaders somehow above us who read them.
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I don't believe that experts exist. For the same reason unconferences (read Dave Winer's take on them) have exploded on to the scene and are beginning to disrupt the conference-as-a-huge-revenue-generator
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Oliver Schwabe has one of the best posts about this topic I've read in some time entitled, The guru is dead. Long live the network:
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America's founding fathers understood humans innate propensity to create mobs and set up a representative democracy to ensure stuff got done and kept anarchy at a minimum.
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I look for signal and try to minimize noise. THAT is what will separate aggregators of thought leaders authentically engaging a community and facilitating conversation.
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I still marvel at Slashdot as one example that works and where the community crushes trolls and has a fairly decent reputation system that minimizes gaming of it and tilts toward meaningful conversation. I've yet to develop my thinking on what the sweet spot is between control and anarchy and would be interested in your thoughts...
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