Comments on: What makes people work for free? http://www.openbusiness.cc/2006/07/11/what-makes-people-work-for-free/ the Open Business Project Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:42:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ben Zevenbergen http://www.openbusiness.cc/2006/07/11/what-makes-people-work-for-free/comment-page-1/#comment-978 Ben Zevenbergen Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:32:46 +0000 http://www.openbusiness.cc/2006/07/11/what-makes-people-work-for-free/#comment-978 There have been some interesting thoughts about 'What makes people work for free?' since it was published on openbusiness.cc. The idea of 'micro-innovation', the act of making very small contributions to a much larger. much broader innovation sprung op at principledinnovation.com. A reply to this idea was the idea of 'micro-volunteerism' i.e. you can put a touch on something and never spend time on it again. It would be interesting to see more organisations working on models of stimulating people to contribute with as much ease as possible, especially in times with low incentive to volunteer as identified by principledinnovation.com. German website best-practice-business.de have also taken an interest and shown another example of encouraging people to work for 'free'. A german company, nachtausgabe.de, which reviews and comments upon German nightlife had set up a scheme where young gents got free VIP tickets to certain clubs, and in return they wrote a review. I'm not sure this is entirely free, but it does show people willing to do work in exchange for something fun and exciting. There have been some interesting thoughts about ‘What makes people work for free?’ since it was published on openbusiness.cc. The idea of ‘micro-innovation’, the act of making very small contributions to a much larger. much broader innovation sprung op at principledinnovation.com. A reply to this idea was the idea of ‘micro-volunteerism’ i.e. you can put a touch on something and never spend time on it again. It would be interesting to see more organisations working on models of stimulating people to contribute with as much ease as possible, especially in times with low incentive to volunteer as identified by principledinnovation.com.

German website best-practice-business.de have also taken an interest and shown another example of encouraging people to work for ‘free’. A german company, nachtausgabe.de, which reviews and comments upon German nightlife had set up a scheme where young gents got free VIP tickets to certain clubs, and in return they wrote a review. I’m not sure this is entirely free, but it does show people willing to do work in exchange for something fun and exciting.

]]> By: www.best-practice-business.de/blog » Wie motiviert man Menschen, umsonst zu arbeiten http://www.openbusiness.cc/2006/07/11/what-makes-people-work-for-free/comment-page-1/#comment-934 www.best-practice-business.de/blog » Wie motiviert man Menschen, umsonst zu arbeiten Wed, 12 Jul 2006 07:03:48 +0000 http://www.openbusiness.cc/2006/07/11/what-makes-people-work-for-free/#comment-934 [...] Der Open Business Blog hat in seinem aktuellen Artikel “What makes people work for free?” zwei Erfolgsfaktoren für die freiwillige Arbeit ausgemacht: [...] [...] Der Open Business Blog hat in seinem aktuellen Artikel “What makes people work for free?” zwei Erfolgsfaktoren für die freiwillige Arbeit ausgemacht: [...]

]]> By: Principled Innovation LLC » Would you work for your association for free? http://www.openbusiness.cc/2006/07/11/what-makes-people-work-for-free/comment-page-1/#comment-933 Principled Innovation LLC » Would you work for your association for free? Wed, 12 Jul 2006 03:47:35 +0000 http://www.openbusiness.cc/2006/07/11/what-makes-people-work-for-free/#comment-933 [...] A post today on the Open Business Blog raises a critical question for all association leaders: what makes people work for free? The post, which takes Wikipedia’s volunteer-driven model as its subject, focuses in on a few factors that motivate contributors to invest their valuable time and attention into an uncompensated role. These factors include: [...] [...] A post today on the Open Business Blog raises a critical question for all association leaders: what makes people work for free? The post, which takes Wikipedia’s volunteer-driven model as its subject, focuses in on a few factors that motivate contributors to invest their valuable time and attention into an uncompensated role. These factors include: [...]

]]>