Here Comes Everybody, by Clay Shirky, is a book about how social media allows for groups to work together to accomplish a goal.  The first example displays an effort to retrieve a cell phone that was left in a cab in New York.  By retrieving photographs and an email address from her stolen cell phone, they could identify and contact who currently had it in their possession.  After many failed attempts to have the cell phone returned to its rightful owner, they turned their story to a personal blog site.  First the story was forwarded around to their friends, but eventually got national attention.  I love this story.  Even though it is just a stolen cell phone, you cannot help but get emotionally attached… mostly because we have all been there.  They were able to get attention from officers, lawyers, online detectives,  and journalists.  Through the collaboration online, people were able to work together to eventually get the phone back.

The book continues to display how groups working together can bring about change.  Whether it be giving up to date information on global events, organization in the workplace, or solving the dilemmas in our world, we are able to pursue these problems faster with our social media tools.