Collaborative innovation networks — How to mint your COINs?

How can you leverage the swarm creativity of Collaborative Innovation Networks? How can you recognize them? How can you join them? This talk introduces Collaborative Innovation Networks, or COINs. COINs are cyberteams of self- motivated people with a collective vision, enabled by technology to collaborate in creating a cool trend - an innovation - by sharing ideas, information, and work. COINs have been around for hundreds of years. Many of us have already been a part of one without knowing it. What makes COINs so relevant today is that the concept has reached its tipping point - thanks to the Internet and the World Wide Web. COINs are powered by swarm creativity. People work together in a structure that enables a fluid creation and exchange of ideas. It may look chaotic from the outside, but the structure of a COIN is like a beehive or ant colony, immensely productive because each team member knows intuitively what she or he needs to do.