Sep 18, 04:15 pm: Providing opportunities for initiative

From my perspective, one of the biggest benefits of the big bucket o’ web 2.0 tools is ability to set up a situation in which people can act with initiative around their passions. Flattening of the world, to some folks.

I’ve pointed, before, to the domestic violence tag on flickr. People can share what they care about.

Lately, I’ve been trying to figure out how that works inside an organization. That is, how can you set up an organizational system that allows people to have initiative? That provides a clear path for people to bring their ideas and enough context to make those ideas relevant and do-able?

We have an internal wiki, for example. And I regularly cruise it to find people who updated pages that were outside of their work group. To my mind, those are folks who are taking initiative and who are sharing. Often with little credit.

But, of course, tools aren’t enough. What else do you do, in a medium or large organization, to provide an opportunity for individuals?

I have more questions than answers. And I welcome any thoughts or resources. What do you have?

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