Monday, December 04, 2006

We are smarter than me...

Wharton School Publising is experimenting with Wiki style involvement for a book on management. The press release mentions that over a million business professionals an scholars have been invited to participate in this effort. I am not sure what the time line is but it would be interesting to follow how this effort pans out...

More Than a Million Invited to Write and Edit First Collaborative Book on Management Best Practices
Taking a page from Wikipedia®, publishing giant Pearson, under its Wharton School Publishing imprint, has embarked on a new book publishing project that could involve tens of thousands of authors and editors. Starting last month, more than a million business professionals and scholars -- including faculty, students, alumni, and newsletter recipients from Wharton and MIT's Sloan School of Management -- started receiving messages inviting them to collectively write and edit the book, tentatively titled We Are Smarter Than Mewww.wearesmarter.org). The book's content will examine how Web 2.0 technologies such as social networks, wikis, and blogs can benefit the business enterprise.