Volunteering is becoming less hierarchical and more collaborative. People are increasingly volunteering informally through online networks and sharing platforms. This has led to more distributed, leaderless organizations where people self-organize around shared values through online networks and cooperation without top-down coordination. Now the default way to get things done is through online networks rather than traditional organizations.
7. “The growing trend who find work outside
of the boundaries or seek to find new
solutions”
“This generation will accelerate the trend of
reflexive volunteering and create a new
set of volunteer based institutions rather
than join and support currently
established institutions and organizations.”
Howe and Strauss, 2000
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11. So what’s changing..?
The dominant model
used to be: “group then
share”.
Now the dominant model
is “share then group”.
(= cooperation without
coordination)
12. The cost of information is low
Flikr
Wikipedia
Linx
Mysociety
Taylored e-books
Etsy produce
The long tail
The ‘reply all’ function on e-mail
Mass-customisation
Prosumerism
19. six degrees of separation
The average distance of a single
twitter user to any other is 4.67
steps. (A study of 5.2 billion social media relationships)
25. The default unit of doing things
used to be the organisation.
Now it is the network.
Distributed, non-hierarchical leadership of
people who share values = volunteering
28. Volunteering is framework for
doing anything
• People are already doing things
• They want to do more
• The coordination of cooperation doesn’t fit