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• 08 Jul 09
  

  Bill Anderson

  Is there a "Dunbar" number for collaboration? That is, in how many separate initiatives can one person be an effective participant? An important question for distributed, multi-player work practice.

  wikinomics collaboration social objects practice

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  Will Richardson

  # At an individual level people suffer from cognitive overload. As people get busy and collaborate across a multitude of projects, the brain gets distracted, and the quality of the output suffers. In short, one person can only do so much.
  # At a project level where you run into a situation of ‘too many cooks spoiling the broth.’ In short, only so many people can do one thing.

  collaboration

• 07 Jul 09
  

  Nancy White

  collaboration multimembership overload

• 22 Jun 09
  

  Chuck Brands
• 17 Jun 09
  

  Rene Weinand
• 15 Jun 09
  

  Meri Walker

  collaboration social media swarm thinking

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