Smart mobs are beginning to have an impact on global politics.

This ability to stay on top of current events makes smart mobs extremely effective.

You can participate in a smart mob within the confines of your own home.

The term was inspired by the earlier term smart mob.

Essentially, the smart mob is a practical implementation of collective intelligence.

Or, more accurately, a "smart mob" - the newest form of social organization.

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Smart mobs like these are sometimes considered a variety of performance art, or at least a harmless prank.

The key to smart mobs is their organization.

One example is the use of cellphone technology to engage "smart mobs" for political change worldwide.

It is this democratization of technology that set the stage for the development of smart mobs.

Smart mobs can also be organized to congregate simultaneously at multiple locations.

He sees a similar shift with smart mobs and what he calls swarming.

In these cases of a planned purpose for the social activity in question, the term smart mobs is often applied instead.

The term flash mob is claimed to have been inspired by "smart mob".

Information access can be obtained through smart mobs in which a group of people create online discussions centered around their interests or causes.

As a result, smart mobs are planned from these discussions and are executed in the physical world.

Peace movements are also generally thought to have benefited from the rise of Internet communication and coordination, the so-called smart mob technology.

In Rome, a smart mob converged on a book store; the members insisted that shop employees help them find nonexistent books.

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According to Rheingold, examples of smart mobs are the street protests organized by the anti-globalization movement.

Members of smart mobs in the loosest version of the definition needn't go anywhere to participate, however.

According to Rheingold, smart mobs are an indication of the evolving communication technologies that will empower the people.

Since its inception, however, "flash mob" has been used by news media and promoters to refer to nearly any form of smart mob.

Other examples of smart mobs include: