They outperform their competitors because when everyone knows how to make money and everyone knows what the score is, then people can self organize and respond quickly as events unfold and unexpected things happen.

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Nor does his site offer supporters a way to self-organize, the way My.

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She installed community chalkboards in the Diepsloot neighborhood in Johannesburg, South Africa, that gave people a medium to self-organize and share information.

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Social media have enabled protesters to self-organize, and have engaged the global youth in the fight to be able to freely express themselves and the aspirations of their wider communities.

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Sometimes these are solo efforts, but often civic coders collaborate, either online through resources like GitHub or in person at events called "hackathons" where coders self-organize into teams and compete to build software over the course of a day or a weekend.

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What if the Lean In community or any group of feminist-minded women were to organize around the cause of single motherhood instead of the cause of their own self-congratulation?

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