A crowdsourcing Obama

In Peter Kollocks study of human contributions to online communities in The Economies of Online Cooperation: Gifts and Public Goods in Cyberspace, he points out that Web 2.0 did not invent anything. Rather, Web 2.0 simply made possible what people wanted to do anyway.

When I think about President Obama's approach to his campaign he really created Election 2.0 where it was the first time people could get involved with him if only indirectly via crowdsourcing. Similarly in his campaign he made possible what people wanted to do anyway; have a say in the country's outcome. The result was President Obama was able to ensure that his campaign appealed to his followers.

Now it is time for Presidency 2.0 where we use crowdsourcing to help re-shape

our nation. We are still far from the finish line but at least we are in the race!

I for one am very excited.

The Crowd is gathering.........