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Entry #48 in the 100 Most Creative People in Business in 2010, Fast Company (magazine). Entry written by Stephanie Schomer. For more on Park, follow tag park

Website for the book The Power of Positive Deviance by Jeremy Sternin, Richard Pascale and Monique Sternin published by Harvard Business Press in 2010.

The Content Management Comparison Tool "To put it simply Wordpress is much smaller and some would argue less powerful than Joomla or Drupal. Joomla or Drupal tend to be used for large business and community sites with lots of different types of content where there is more specific needs. Wordpress tends to be used by SME's, bloggers and charity's because it's very easy to use but you can hit that usability ceiling despite it's excellent plugin library."

Table of Contents, including list of section headings.

Innovation Communities Teamworking of Key Persons - A Success Factor in Radical Innovation, Klaus Fichter and Severin Beucker (Eds.). Berlin: New York: Springer, 2012

WHEN a college textbook, "Principles of Biology," comes out from the Nature Publishing Group in January, one place it won't be is on the shelves of school bookstores. Enlarge This Image An interactive graphic in "Principles of Biology," an electronic textbook from Nature Publishing, teaches students about the symptoms of a stroke. Enlarge This Image An interactive graphic from Wolfram Research lets readers change the display parameters of an oil spill. That's because the book was designed to be digital-only. Students will pay not for a printed edition at a bookstore, but for permanent access on the Internet ($49).

By M. Ginsburg and S. Weisband, Proceedings of the 37th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - 2004. Written in 2004, this article is somewhat dated (e.g. before the notion of the "social network" really took hold). That said, the article looks at a subscription-based virtual community, the Internet Chess Club, and finds that the real key to success is a carefully structured 3-tier approach to volunteering. Some volunteers help/coach new users; others are available to handle administrative tasks and volunteer managers run on-demand tournaments. Volunteers gain status and recognition, as well as the benefit of a private sub-community in which they can communicate with each other. NOTE: As of Jan 2012, the club is still in existence.

Librarian notes: While much here does not apply to the current manifestation of our e-communities, the structure and function of the various volunteer roles is very interesting, as is the "communication segmentation strategies" to filter out information overload. An impressive database of the community's work (in this case chess matches) is discussed as well.

From the home page, "Our focus as a Center is to conduct research, publish articles and develop teaching materials around a more distributed model of industry innovation, that we call 'Open Innovation.'"

Published by Volans Ventures Ltd., 2009. This report looks at "five key trends that are driving change-and 50 organizations that are spearheading that change." The report is available via slideshare on this page. There is also a link to the pdf.