Designing for Civil Society: Fractional work and small slices of expertise

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The Internet potentially offers a host of solutions to a couple of linked challenges: how do I use the enormous ability to connect to find answers to my problems … and how do I make money by selling what I know online? Unfortunately the reality can be rather messy … fruitless searches, lots of to-and-fro discussions by email, forum or blog, and uncertainty about whether or how to buy or sell expertise. However, things are changing with a range of smart sites aimed at more focussed knowledge exchange and what Leon Benjamin – the author of Winning by Sharing – calls in his book Fractional Work. In an update on his blog Leon wonders if Fractional Work is the next small thing and offers a great round-up of developments…

http://www.designingforcivilsociety.org/2007/02/fractional_work.html

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