It can be used to run simple rankings or self-organizing Q&As.    From Wordnik.com.  [Community COUNTS Launches "Ask Congress"] Reference

Obama volunteers in Texas were self-organizing in August 2007.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Outspending Hillary 4-1 On Ads In Madison and Milwaukee] Reference

One answer lies in the self-organizing processes already mentioned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Playing by Nature's Paradigm: Systems Science and the Grateful Dead] Reference

It is a little bit like when we talk about self-organizing networks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mahamudra and the Four Noble Truths ��� 3 Application to Mahamudra Practice] Reference

And with today's social networking tools, self-organizing would be a simple task.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steven G. Brant: Wall Street and the US Government: Where's Jimmy Stewart When We Need Him?] Reference

Korten: the other, the other frame for the bottom up, of course, is self-organizing.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Interview with David Korten, Author of When Corporations Rule the World] Reference

His first computer model representing self-organizing criticality was of a pile of sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ning Demo Video] Reference

These practices were not accidental or self-organizing or the product of "market forces.".    From Wordnik.com.  [MIDDLE CLASS ANGST: THE POLITICS OF LEMMINGS, Part I] Reference

No connecting members to each other or giving them a platform with tools for self-organizing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Avaaz.org: MoveOn Goes International] Reference

While Washington works on policy, citizens have begun self-organizing solutions for themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scott Heiferman and Jeremy Heimans: We Are the Stimulus] Reference

We are seeing the emergence of a digital democracy, an Internet-powered, self-organizing paradigm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jose Antonio Vargas: TRANSCRIPT: Q&A with Al Gore] Reference

There seems to be a law of nature, self-organizing criticality, by which new forms come into being.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ning Demo Video] Reference

In that respect, consciousness is an autopoietic system, i.e., a self-creating and self-organizing system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Consciousness] Reference

They, in themselves, are an example of the self-organizing principle which shapes all of cosmic evolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ning Demo Video] Reference

Slowly, we're collectively building a more networked democracy out of self-organizing experiments like these.    From Wordnik.com.  [From HeckleBot to Twitterverse: Net-Centric Democracy Goes Global Tonight] Reference

The community is in fact a federation of 1,350 local communities that are self-governing and self-organizing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketers Can Learn From Lutherans] Reference

All this malfeasance was no organized conspiracy, but a self-organizing, automatically expanding gravy train.    From Wordnik.com.  [Financial Reform, R.I.P.] Reference

As you watch, just remember that there are many new towns, villages and hamlets are self-organizing under these ideals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cameron Sinclair: Resilience Takes Form -- A Handbook for Transition] Reference

It postulates that randomness is necessary in any system for any self-organizing phenomena to occur within that system.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Brilliant Strategy of Incompetence] Reference

Does MyBarackObama. com break down at the point where volunteers might otherwise turn into self-organizing surrogates?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily Digest: Does a Bill That Fails on the Web Make a Sound?] Reference

AJMA, how would you, if you were Obama, dissuade those folks from self-organizing and continuing their separate efforts?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Election Central Sunday Roundup] Reference

Planets, animals, galaxies, ecosystems, villages, and the Deadhead community are all examples of self-organizing systems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Playing by Nature's Paradigm: Systems Science and the Grateful Dead] Reference

When we see people self-organizing and helping each other out we're reminded how important it is to provide simple, reliable tools.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYC, LA Press Using Twitter Vote Report to Zoom Local] Reference

Solutions emerge in the human brain from the unpredictable interaction of millions of simultaneous self-organizing chaotic processes.    From Wordnik.com.  ['I Married a Computer': An Exchange] Reference

Analysis of Kalundborg as a self-organizing, spontaneous system contrasts with the attempt to build new eco-industrial parks from scratch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Industrial symbiosis] Reference

Didn't Grateful Dead concerts also work in this way, with the band recreating a complex self-organizing live experience over and over again?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Playing by Nature's Paradigm: Systems Science and the Grateful Dead] Reference

People are self-organizing, taking action to help others to deal with misfortunes, from credit card terrors to mortgage and foreclosure horrors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birute Regine: The Power of Vulnerability] Reference

Our Meetup chart shows him taking off in the last two months, with about 6,000 people self-organizing in nearly 140 groups supporting his candidacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Checking the techPresident Charts] Reference

The Obama campaign was out of sync with the public discussion, which was self-organizing and self-mobilization that completely transformed the election.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liveblogging the Harvard Internet & Politics conference part 2] Reference

According to resilience thinking, systems are in constant flux; they are highly unpredictable and self-organizing, with feedbacks across time and space.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humanity And Resilience Theory] Reference

And what -- what these tools online like Twitter and blogs are being -- you know, are allowing us to do is just mobilize in self-organizing kind of ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 27, 2008] Reference

In the late 1970's scientists Lynn Margulis and James Lovelock (1979) put forth the idea that our planet functions as a self-organizing self-renewing system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Playing by Nature's Paradigm: Systems Science and the Grateful Dead] Reference

It also overlooks the ENERGY UTILIZATION processes of creative self-organizing systems, how they use chaos and energy, working with it as a sailboat rides with the wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Playing by Nature's Paradigm: Systems Science and the Grateful Dead] Reference

The self-organizing and internal structure of ecological and socioeconomic systems makes ‘the whole more durable (and valuable) than the sum of the parts’ (Chapter 4).    From Wordnik.com.  [Economic, social, and environmental elements of development] Reference

He describes them as self-organizing, almost as if they were a military unit, where one person is responsible for finding water, one person is responsible for another task.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 2, 2005] Reference

I am with him on the coming impact of live video online, as well as the rising power of Twitter enabled self-organizing crowds at events (watch out Denver and Minneapolis!).    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily Digest: Who Says Experience Matters?] Reference

In recent years, biologist Rupert Sheldrake (1991,1994) has proposed that all self-organizing structures (from atoms to rock groups) are maintained by unseen MORPHOGENETIC FIELDS.    From Wordnik.com.  [Playing by Nature's Paradigm: Systems Science and the Grateful Dead] Reference