http://thebigchange.com/profit-motive/ Business Strategy, Technology Trends, Marketing and Branding Wed, 05 Oct 2011 05:47:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://thebigchange.com/profit-motive/comment-page-1/#comment-273 Benoit FELTEN Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:25:31 +0000 http://thebigchange.com/profit-motive/#comment-273 The fact that not all are motivated solely by greed (ir financial self interest) is evidenced in the burgeoning web 2.0 social dynamics. As amply demonstrated by Chris Anderson in the long-tail the motivation for many content contributors to the web is simply collaboration, sometimes notoriety, often recognition, rarely (but not never) a genuine willingness to help others who are experiencing things we have faced. It is rarely, if ever, financial. The fact that not all are motivated solely by greed (ir financial self interest) is evidenced in the burgeoning web 2.0 social dynamics. As amply demonstrated by Chris Anderson in the long-tail the motivation for many content contributors to the web is simply collaboration, sometimes notoriety, often recognition, rarely (but not never) a genuine willingness to help others who are experiencing things we have faced. It is rarely, if ever, financial.

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