How to Save the World October 17, 2006
Posted by Andy Roberts in : blogs and community, tools, Wiki , trackbackNumber 3)
Some weblog tools could morph into full collaborate environments where groups of people with common interests, practices, projects or purposes could co-develop information and entertainment ‘products’. So-called ‘groupware’ has not been very successful largely because many groups lack sufficient shared passion, or a shared sense of urgency, or sufficient motivation to develop competence in using online tools. Co-development of a world-class compilation of ideas or expertise on a particular subject, or shared software or multimedia products (music, films, or books), on a shared space, would not suffer from this lack of motivation, and could produce collective wisdom and genius that is far more exciting than weblogs (even group blogs) can hope to offer. And there’s no reason why the tool to do this couldn’t be built on a blog wiki platform, a composing environment that a lot of people have become comfortable with.
is an online professional who initiated DARnet 
Hi Andy,
Good find. What dawned on me as I read the post is the question of what’s missing?
If we have groups of people with common interests, practices, projects etc. and great vision such as save the world (i.e. ourselves) and a whole raft of communication tools - blogs and groupware and skype etc.
The thought that comes to mind for me is the domain of “online facilitation” or some new form of online people co-ordinator/ participation encourager role that hasn’t been quite named yet. Someone skilled at online group dynamics and to hold the group and it’s process.
Stephen