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Hello by AsaerrorAsaerror, 07 Jun 2022 05:52

Hey everyone. I totally found this awesome youtube video. It is about 40 minutes long and is the taping of a lecture the author did speaking about the book. It's great to watch to get you caught up with what the point of the book is. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_0FgRKsqqU] Check it out. ~Lise

Awesome Video by lshafferlshaffer, 19 Nov 2008 01:46

Imitation: following the actions of someone or taking cues from everyone else's behavior.
The author used the famous example of Imo the monkey and how her actions influenced the rest of her monkey "society" this had such a positive impact on those around her and in this case imitation was used as a learning tool. In other cases we follow those who might not have the best ideas or have done their homework and in this case imitation can be damaging. It can also be damaging in the fashion industry when people copy or knock off others ideas. So just like all the other therories in the book Wisdom of Crowds it is still very important to stay diverse and still think for yourself so you can just reap the benefits of crowds and not fall victom to them.

Imitation by BonnieCraigheadBonnieCraighead, 17 Nov 2008 04:13
Here comes everybody pic by smnth_1smnth_1, 16 Nov 2008 23:31

These are couple of the notes I took from the checkpoint meeting with Courtney. Make sure you all include these factors in your paper and presentation. I didn't break it down by chapter, but hopefully after reading you can pick up on which parts are your's and which ones are not. Let me know if you have any questions. See you ladies later.

Economic Transaction
Institutional Cost
Former Audience and former consumer (relate it to fashion)
Coordinating groups and how to fix it making sure to refer to Wikinomics
Back to hiearchy of traditional management structure
New Media New Mermaid Parade related to how companies are changing
Sharing, Cooperative, Collection, Action
Big basis of group collective action in regards to free writers
using the microwave example ( ex. from class)
Ch 3 pg. 57 fashion
exist because of scarce resource, how does that refer to what you wanna do.
Media changing! blogging newspapers are failing in regards to fashion communication majors. What 200 Ch 4 user generated content.
pg 100 HP
More collective knowledge than organization, can that be applied to more business
102- Paper with more than a million readers attract tons of people that care about different things and make sure you get the audience involved.
Wikipedia-Why would people update Wikipedia if they were'nt being paid (reason)
121- Who contributes the most power? Do the top people make all of the decisions? Discuss the 80/20 rule, and relate it to the fashion industry.
Why is it easy to join a group? How do people communicate so easily? How or why is it so easy to join a group? How much harder is it to write a letter? How is it so easy to get involved on campus, or how do campus activities relate to chapter 6?

checkpoint topics by lshaun_05lshaun_05, 16 Nov 2008 03:08

Hi all!

For the paper and powerpoint these are the sections you should cover. We have split the project in half with group F (we will cover the first half of the book).

Here is a breakdown for our next presentation/paper over Wikinomics…

Intro- The Perfect Storm (pp 1-64)
-Buitink
-Huber
-Ragains
-Zachritz

Peer Pioneers-Ideagoras (pp 65-123)
-Manderschied
-Pierce
-Wagaman

The Presumers- The New Alexandrians (pp 124-182)
-Epperson
-Linker
-Merciel

Individual Contribution: Each person should create one slide only for their part of the presentation and ideally contribute one page per person or three pages per group (however you want to look at it). Try to post to the wiki at least three times per person. Be thinking of a creative/interactive activity we can do (like the group today using the dress forms)!

Important Dates:
-Wed., Nov. 11 (in two days)- short grp. meeting after class in Windsor Aud.
-Mon., Nov. 17- meet w/ Courtney after class for checkpoint
-Wed, Dec. 3- email your part of the paper to me (ude.snehpets.cs|ecreipe#ude.snehpets.cs|ecreipe) or Megan (ude.snehpets.cs|namagaw.nagem#ude.snehpets.cs|namagaw.nagem) and your slides (w/text and transferable pictures) to Meg (moc.liamtoh|deihcsrednamgem#moc.liamtoh|deihcsrednamgem).
-Mon, Dec. 8- Presentation and paper due

Thanks and if you have any questions don't hesitate to email me!

Emily

Breakdown of Assignment by epierceepierce, 10 Nov 2008 23:23

Hi all!

For the paper and powerpoint these are the sections you should cover. We have split the project in half with group F (we will cover the first half of the book).

Here is a breakdown for our next presentation/paper over Wikinomics…

Intro- The Perfect Storm (pp 1-64)
-Buitink
-Huber
-Ragains
-Zachritz

Peer Pioneers-Ideagoras (pp 65-123)
-Manderschied
-Pierce
-Wagaman

The Presumers- The New Alexandrians (pp 124-182)
-Epperson
-Linker
-Merciel

Individual Contribution: Each person should create one slide only for their part of the presentation and ideally contribute one page per person or three pages per group (however you want to look at it). Try to post to the wiki at least three times per person. Be thinking of a creative/interactive activity we can do (like the group today using the dress forms)!

Important Dates:
-Wed., Nov. 11 (in two days)- short grp. meeting after class in Windsor Aud.
-Mon., Nov. 17- meet w/ Courtney after class for checkpoint
-Wed, Dec. 3- email your part of the paper to me (ude.snehpets.cs|ecreipe#ude.snehpets.cs|ecreipe) or Megan (ude.snehpets.cs|namagaw.nagem#ude.snehpets.cs|namagaw.nagem) and your slides (w/text and transferable pictures) to Meg (moc.liamtoh|deihcsrednamgem#moc.liamtoh|deihcsrednamgem).
-Mon, Dec. 8- Presentation and paper due

Thanks and if you have any questions don't hesitate to email me!

Emily

Breakdown of Assignment by epierceepierce, 10 Nov 2008 23:22

Relating us, as students of fashion, to Surowiecki's ideas in The Wisdom of Crowds.

1. Surowiecki writes that diversity is most important in small groups. Does this mean if our groups in class are made up of very diverse individuals with varying sources of knowledge, we will have better projects than if our group members were similar?

2. What about our willingness to participate? If money is one motivator for individuals to make better decisions, what other factors could motivate a crowd?

3. In what ways has “groupthink” affected us as fashion students? Particularly, as fashion design students, do we lack diversity in our thinking and have we fallen into a routine way of doing things, in turn stifling our creativity?

Madison Tannenbaum
The Wisdom Of Crowds- Questions
Global Issues in the Fashion Industry
October 27, 2008

1. Sports betting is often calculated and studied before the actual bet when talking about the NFL. Why is college sports and horse racing not calculated the same way?
2. Are there any other small factors that go into making a crowd decision ?
3.If being independent is a large factor in making a group decision, why is the example of the “ Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” being used for the “ask the audience” choice?
4.Is the Linux program going to be sold on the market? If so, will the many contributors receive any compensation?
5. When using coordination problems in life, I found the section to be confusing. When the author refers to the two examples of bar crowdedness is there a right or wrong answer? Does it depend on personal choice?

Remember that we all have to read the book. Allyce and I are going to talk with Courtney and figure out the best way to spilt up the presentation within our group. We will keep you posted!

Reading by DaniellePDanielleP, 05 Nov 2008 01:34

Hello ladies the results of the poll:

Who are you going to vote for in the 2008 Presidential Election?
Obama/Biden: 20
McCain/Palin: 16
Not Voting: 4
Nader/Gonzalez: 1
Undecided: 1

If you had $100 who would you bet will win the 2008 Presidential Election?
Obama/Biden: 33
McCain/Palin: 8
No Answer: 1

*I guess we will see tomorrow!!!!!!!

*Also: Meeting Tuesday night @ 9:30 in the library!
For the meeting: bring main points about each chapter for discussion!!!!

Hey ladies, I talked to Group B (Kayla G) and we are going to take a poll on the upcoming election. The poll will take place on Wed Oct. 28 and will feature these two questions:

Who are you voting for?

If you had $100 who would you bet on to win?

I will make these handouts and bring them to class tom. We also need to make a meeting time for later this week.

Election Poll by ktaltmnnktaltmnn, 28 Oct 2008 17:54

Globalization of the Local
Main Worry- “globalization means Americanization.”
“Innovate without having to emigrate”
Internet- access to local community
-online newspapers
-phones SKYPE
India

If It’s Not Happening, It’s Because You’re Not Doing It.
Companies don’t manage their own reputations.
Old paradigm vs. new paradigm
Grameen Bank
Endeavor
Digital Divide Data
The Flat Classroom Project
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY3gWIJhMTo

If It’s Not Happening It’s Because You’re Not Doing It
Andrew Rasiej
Google Earth- Bahrain’s Government
Activists partnering multinational corporations
-McDonalds
-Walmart
-Starbucks

Globalization of the LocalRelated to Fashion
Designers Inspired by different cultures and local communities
No need to even travel

Technology and the Fashion Industry
Style.com & WGSN.com
 
“After dragging their stilettos for years, fashion designers are starting to embrace online tools. Fashion cycles are faster, and designers want help scoping out competitors’ designs, discovering trends, experimenting with colors and fabrics and mocking up designs. Trend forecasting publications, which designers have relied on for four decades to scout new trends, are trying to bolster their own businesses by offering Web sites with real-time video and photos, downloadable sketches and prints, and collaboration and design tools” (New York Times Reporter Claire Miller, 2008).

Overall Idea
Flattening of the world has opened up opportunities to share ideas  
Opened opportunities in the Fashion Industry’s job market  
Great communication & sharing the best of skills

How this can effect us as individuals
There are two sides to every story:

Side 1: The flattening of the world could lend to more boring monotonous every day products.

Slide 2: The flattening of the world could nourish diversity.

Globalization can effect us as individuals
Even by the candy we eat!!
-The 2001 Cocoa Protocol promoted labels certifying chocolate product as “child labor free.”

Globalization can effect us as individuals continued ….
Medically
- International health policy
Domestically
Job opportunities/economy

*1990’s we got all the upside of globalization.

  • Now were getting some of the downside.
Ashley Huber Slides I worked on by FAS493FAS493, 27 Oct 2008 18:54

Just for thought here are my discussion questions:
1. “With most things the average is mediocrity. With decision making, it’s often excellence” (pg 11). Can you think of a scenario this does not apply? If not, why do you think this is true?
2. The search engine, Google, is ruled by the “Wisdom of Crowds”. Are there any other sites ruled this way? Fashion related?
3. With decision markets available and proof that they are frequently correct. Why don’t companies look to them for market research instead of conducting their own?
4. Surowiecki writes that diversity is very important in the decision making process and having all experts may lead to reduced creative ideas. Demographic Winter states that families are having fewer children and investing more into each child to make them experts in their field. Will all of these experts and less crowds affect the creative future of the world? Technology? Fashion? Politics?
5. “As time passes the market winnows out the winners and losers, effectively choosing which technologies will flourish and which will disappear” (pg 26). What products have we seen change or disappear due to market response? How can we see this at work in the fashion industry?

Globalization and Child Labor:
The Cause Can Also Be A Cure
By Susan Ariel Aaronson *
YaleGlobal
March 13, 2007
In providing jobs for millions of Africans, the globalized chocolate industry must also avoid engaging child labor.

Many chocolate lovers still have a bitter taste in their mouths from revelations that the candies they adore might have been produced by child labor in West Africa. In an ensuing uproar, cocoa producers, traders, suppliers, governments, unions and civil-society groups agreed to a solution brokered by two members of Congress. In 2001, they created a multi-sectoral partnership, the Cocoa Protocol, to address the conditions that perpetuate forced child labor on these cacao plantations. Yet five years later, children still toil, picking cacao in unsafe and unfair conditions. Clearly, a sector-specific strategy cannot address the broad cultural, social and economic factors in West Africa that perpetuate child labor.

The number of children forced to labor in the cacao plantations is small. In 2000, the US State Department, Knight Ridder and the BBC reported that some 15,000 children worked in conditions of forced labor picking beans in Ghana and the Ivory Coast. Trafficked from extremely poor countries, like Mali and Burkina Faso, the children worked on some of the 1.5 million small cocoa farms in West Africa. These farms produce more than half the world's cacao that's processed into candy, cookies or cocoa butter used for cosmetics. Consumers and regulators don't know how to protect these child workers without jeopardizing the livelihoods of millions of their compatriots.

The news that forced labor was used to produce chocolate, a clear violation of existing legislation, raised a red flag for US policymakers as well as processors and manufacturers of cocoa products. Under the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, the US Customs Service is supposed to refuse entry to any goods identified as made by forced labor. But it rarely investigates or interdicts such products. Congressman Elliott Engel and Senator Tom Harkin pursued a new tactic. The House passed legislation requiring the US Food and Drug Administration to develop a social label to reassure consumers that their cocoa products were free of child labor.

However, before the Senate could act, a panicked chocolate industry appealed for a non-legislative solution. The industry feared the US chocolate market, with some $13 billion in sales, would collapse if the bill became law. Harkin and Engel wanted to address child labor without undermining the fragile economies in question. They recognized that in the Ivory Coast alone, some 7 million individuals were engaged in cacao-related economic activity; but less than 1% of these workers were children. They also understood that a collapse of this trade could exacerbate rather than address the root factors - illiteracy, poverty and lack of economic alternatives - that perpetuate exploitation in the cocoa sector.

In September 2001, after intense negotiations, plantation owners, cacao traders and processors and chocolate manufacturers agreed to implement the Cocoa Protocol. All of the major chocolate company firms signed on and agreed to work with unions, civil society and government officials in a multi-sectoral partnership designed to ensure that all cocoa bean products are grown and processed without violating international accepted labor standards. Moreover, the signatories to the Protocol agreed to develop and put in place a certification to assure consumers that processed cacao was not produced in these conditions by July 1, 2005. But the companies did not meet that deadline. They were hampered by civil war in the Ivory Coast and the non-participation of companies that use cacao for cocoa butter products such as cosmetics firms.

After an in-depth investigation of conditions of cacao plantations in Ivory Coast in 2006, BBC reporter Humphrey Hawksley found little evidence that industry efforts were changing farm conditions and concluded: "No one is in charge of the efforts put in place under the Cocoa Protocol. There's no place the buck stops. In the cocoa belt, it's only a short drive to find children working with machetes amid some of the worst poverty anywhere in the world."

Some NGOs and activists are frustrated and want to abandon the Protocol. The International Labor Rights Fund filed suit against Nestlé, ADM and Cargill. Meanwhile, other NGOs such as Global Exchange want governments to adopt a social label and ban imports of cacao that can't be shown to be fairly traded. But a government approved or sanctioned social label is not a panacea. Although some countries, namely Belgium and South Africa, have put in place social labels for manufactured goods, they have not done so for bulk commodities such as cacao where it is difficult to separate out those commodities legitimately produced and those not. Moreover, policymakers don't yet know if such social labels could be challenged as a trade distortion at the WTO. In the face of these concerns, the two legislators as well as some NGOs such as Free the Slaves and the National Child Labor Coalition are willing to wait another year for the chocolate industry to develop its certification.

Forty-two countries in the chocolate supply chain endorsed the protocol and abide by its strictures. Industrialized country governments, international organizations, chocolate companies and foundations provide money and expertise to resolve complex problems in the sector. Under the watchful eye of Protocol participants, Ghana and the Ivory Coast have stepped up efforts to monitor labor conditions, reduce or eliminate school fees, and invest in the education of local children. Meanwhile, in countries such as Mali that have exported child labor, government officials teach families how they can raise family incomes if they let their kids go to school. These efforts are beginning to address the supply-side factors that can perpetuate forced child labor in the cocoa sector, while pushing cocoa processors and manufacturers on the demand side to stop procuring cacao from farms where forced child labor exists. And the changes do not undermine the cacao trade that sustains so many West Africans.

But a sector-specific strategy cannot address the economic and cultural factors that perpetuate forced child labor in West Africa: First, because of an oversupply of cacao, the real price of cacao remains low by historic standards. West African farmers have little leverage to bargain effectively for higher prices and thus they try to reap cost efficiencies from their workers. Secondly, the Protocol cannot address the cultural mores that perpetuate child labor in the countries of West Africa. Lacking educational opportunities, parents view their children as an extra hand, not as individuals who deserve time for education or play. Childhood is both a construct and a luxury good, available only to children of adults who earn sufficient livelihoods for their families as a whole.

Consequently, while the Cocoa Protocol may reduce child labor in one sector, it cannot guarantee that children won't continue to work in other sectors. Their exploitation will only stop when policymakers in the industrialized and developing world meet their human-rights obligations and enforce the law; when companies take responsibility for their supply chains and develop strategies to ensure that their suppliers don't rely on forced labor; and finally, when policymakers address the lack of opportunities, power, and education as well as cultural mores that allow individuals to be abused. The Cocoa Protocol offers a model as to how policymakers working in collaboration with industry, unions and civil society, might address these problems in one sector without distorting trade. But it's just a sector-specific start.

Very accurate and very sad. We should be teaching and learning at least at par with the top countries or we are going to fall behind, farther than we already have.

Re: Cartoon by FAS493FAS493, 27 Oct 2008 02:50
Re: Group E
FAS493FAS493 27 Oct 2008 02:46
in discussion Group E / Group Discussions » Group E

Questions for the presentation in reference to how globalization can effect us as individuals:
Do you think it is a positive and why?
Do you think it is a negative and why?
-Michaela

Re: Group E by FAS493FAS493, 27 Oct 2008 02:46

I want to talk about the possible effects on the economy for each candidate… is it true that democratic presidents usually have a positive effect on the economy? -Michaela

Re: Election by FAS493FAS493, 27 Oct 2008 02:34
Re: Group E
MwagamanMwagaman 27 Oct 2008 00:16
in discussion Group E / Group Discussions » Group E

For those who were not at the meeting I just wanted to let you know that Meg emailed everyone the powerpoint and Emily is going to email the paper to everyone as well as post it on the wiki. Here is a breakdown of the powerpoint:
Ashley Huber: Slides 1, 21 (Ashley is going to introduce the group then everyone will introduce themselves)
Morgan Epperson: Slides 2, 3, 4, and 11 (with Janna?)
Milena Linker: Slides 5, 6, 7
Janna Merciel: Slides 8, 9, 10, and 11 (with Morgan)
Emily Pierce: Slides 12, 13, 14
Meg Manderschied: Slides 15, 16
Megan Wagaman: Slides 17, 18, 19
Marijke Buitink: Slides 20, 22
Jane Zacharitz: Slides 23, 24
Michaela Ragains: Slides 25, 26, 27

Re: Group E by MwagamanMwagaman, 27 Oct 2008 00:16
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