Acknowledgments

Since the premise of this project was to involve a large number of people in the creative process, writing a brief acknowledgements section is a unique challenge. But the contributions of a small group of people stand out and deserve to be highlighted.

Tim Moore, Vice President at Pearson and Publisher of both Prentice Hall and The Financial Times Press, provided discipline when we most needed it—best summed up by his typical refrain, “Hey, folks, we need to get this community up and running and a book from them finished.”

Tim and the Pearson team were the project’s emotional drivers relying equally on enthusiasm, irritation, and encouragement to keep us moving toward an actual, tangible end product from this groundbreaking social ...

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