The First Crowdsourced Book? Help John Winsor Revise “Flipped”

John Winsor is a deeply creative guy; he does wonderful work applying the lens of design thinking and raw creativity to advertising.  We are lucky enough to have him hanging around the d.school a bit lately, where he gave wonderful talk to the students in our Creating Infectious Action class, and yesterday, gave a great talk at our conference.  His blog Cultural Radar is fantastic, check it out. I was intrigued by everything he told us yesterday, but especially taken with how he is revising one his books, now called Flipped: How Bottom-Up Co-creation is Replacing Top-Down
Innovation
. Check out his post about it. Reflecting the spirit of the book, he has the entire old book on a wiki and is inviting people to help him revise and update it.  John told me yesterday that he has already had 75 people sign-up and help.  So if you want to help co-author a book, check it out!

 I wonder if this is the first crowdsourced book?

Update: Stephanie points out that it is not the first crowdsourced book, apparently that title belongs to We Are Smarter Then Me.

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18 responses to “The First Crowdsourced Book? Help John Winsor Revise “Flipped””

  1. Phillip Kast Avatar
    Phillip Kast

    Just thought I’d mention that Lawrence Lessig’s book Code used an open (I think) wiki to do the revision for the second edition a few years ago. Looks like details live here now: http://www.socialtext.net/codev2/index.cgi
    I remember reading through the revisions at the time; it was very neat to see the depth of commentary! Flipped sounds like a cool project too.

  2. Phillip Kast Avatar
    Phillip Kast

    Just thought I’d mention that Lawrence Lessig’s book Code used an open (I think) wiki to do the revision for the second edition a few years ago. Looks like details live here now: http://www.socialtext.net/codev2/index.cgi
    I remember reading through the revisions at the time; it was very neat to see the depth of commentary! Flipped sounds like a cool project too.

  3. Phillip Kast Avatar
    Phillip Kast

    Just thought I’d mention that Lawrence Lessig’s book Code used an open (I think) wiki to do the revision for the second edition a few years ago. Looks like details live here now: http://www.socialtext.net/codev2/index.cgi
    I remember reading through the revisions at the time; it was very neat to see the depth of commentary! Flipped sounds like a cool project too.

  4. Phillip Kast Avatar
    Phillip Kast

    Just thought I’d mention that Lawrence Lessig’s book Code used an open (I think) wiki to do the revision for the second edition a few years ago. Looks like details live here now: http://www.socialtext.net/codev2/index.cgi
    I remember reading through the revisions at the time; it was very neat to see the depth of commentary! Flipped sounds like a cool project too.

  5. Phillip Kast Avatar
    Phillip Kast

    Just thought I’d mention that Lawrence Lessig’s book Code used an open (I think) wiki to do the revision for the second edition a few years ago. Looks like details live here now: http://www.socialtext.net/codev2/index.cgi
    I remember reading through the revisions at the time; it was very neat to see the depth of commentary! Flipped sounds like a cool project too.

  6. Phillip Kast Avatar
    Phillip Kast

    Just thought I’d mention that Lawrence Lessig’s book Code used an open (I think) wiki to do the revision for the second edition a few years ago. Looks like details live here now: http://www.socialtext.net/codev2/index.cgi
    I remember reading through the revisions at the time; it was very neat to see the depth of commentary! Flipped sounds like a cool project too.

  7. John Winsor Avatar

    Bob –
    Thanks for the props. It was great to be with you at Stanford on Thursday. It’s always inspiring hanging out with the d.school crew. I look forward to continuing the dialogue.
    John

  8. John Winsor Avatar

    Bob –
    Thanks for the props. It was great to be with you at Stanford on Thursday. It’s always inspiring hanging out with the d.school crew. I look forward to continuing the dialogue.
    John

  9. John Winsor Avatar

    Bob –
    Thanks for the props. It was great to be with you at Stanford on Thursday. It’s always inspiring hanging out with the d.school crew. I look forward to continuing the dialogue.
    John

  10. John Winsor Avatar

    Bob –
    Thanks for the props. It was great to be with you at Stanford on Thursday. It’s always inspiring hanging out with the d.school crew. I look forward to continuing the dialogue.
    John

  11. John Winsor Avatar

    Bob –
    Thanks for the props. It was great to be with you at Stanford on Thursday. It’s always inspiring hanging out with the d.school crew. I look forward to continuing the dialogue.
    John

  12. John Winsor Avatar

    Bob –
    Thanks for the props. It was great to be with you at Stanford on Thursday. It’s always inspiring hanging out with the d.school crew. I look forward to continuing the dialogue.
    John

  13. Joseph Logan Avatar

    We-Think by Charles Leadbeater in the UK was done in a similar fashion, I think. I also recall him having to really work on the publisher to support the approach.

  14. Joseph Logan Avatar

    We-Think by Charles Leadbeater in the UK was done in a similar fashion, I think. I also recall him having to really work on the publisher to support the approach.

  15. Joseph Logan Avatar

    We-Think by Charles Leadbeater in the UK was done in a similar fashion, I think. I also recall him having to really work on the publisher to support the approach.

  16. Joseph Logan Avatar

    We-Think by Charles Leadbeater in the UK was done in a similar fashion, I think. I also recall him having to really work on the publisher to support the approach.

  17. Joseph Logan Avatar

    We-Think by Charles Leadbeater in the UK was done in a similar fashion, I think. I also recall him having to really work on the publisher to support the approach.

  18. Joseph Logan Avatar

    We-Think by Charles Leadbeater in the UK was done in a similar fashion, I think. I also recall him having to really work on the publisher to support the approach.

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