Det låter ju trevligt. Trots att jag inte har fått några mutor ännu, så har jag ändå engagerat mig i en del saker. Och just nu ägnar jag mig ganska lite åt det som först drog mig hit utan åt annat.Men jag har sökt lite på nätet för att hitta några tankar kring det här. Då hittade jag följande. Det är lite lösryckta citat men kan kanske väcka några tankar. Man skulle kunna sammanfatta det så här:
- Erkännande
- Känsla av att kunna påverkan
- Ömsesidighet
- Känsla av gemenskap
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egoboo skrev: Egoboo is a colloquial expression for the pleasure received from public recognition of voluntary work.
Se också det här länkarna:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_community skrev: Several motivations lead people to contribute to virtual communities. Various online media (i.e. Wikis, Blogs, Chat rooms, Internet forums, Electronic mailing lists) are becoming ever greater knowledge-sharing resources. Many of these communities are highly cooperative and establish their own unique culture. They also involve significant time from contributors with no monetary gain.
A person is motivated to contribute valuable information to the group in the expectation that one will receive useful help and information in return. Indeed, there is evidence that active participants in online communities get more responses faster to questions than unknown participants (Kollock 178).
Recognition is important to online contributors such that, in general, individuals want recognition for their contributions. Some have called this Egoboo.
One of the key ingredients of encouraging a reputation is to allow contributors to be known or not to be anonymous.
Individuals may contribute valuable information because the act results in a sense of efficacy, that is, a sense that they have had some effect on this environment. There is well-developed research literature that has shown how important a sense of efficacy is (e.g. Bandura 1995), and making regular and high quality contributions to the group can help individuals believe that they have an impact on the group and support their own self-image as an efficacious person.
There is another motivation, implicit in the above, which Mark Smith mentions in his 1992 thesis: Voices from the WELL: The Logic of the Virtual Commons: "Communion", as Smith terms it, or "sense of community" as it is referred to in social psychology. People, in general, are fairly social beings and it is motivating to many people to receive direct responses to their contributions. Most online communities enable this by allowing people to reply back to contributions (i.e. many Blogs allow comments from readers, one can reply back to forum posts, etc).
Most online communities grow slowly at first, due in part to the fact that the strength of motivation for contributing is usually proportional to the size of the community. As the size of the potential audience increases, so does the attraction of writing and contributing. This, coupled with the fact that organizational culture does not change overnight, means creators can expect slow progress at first with a new virtual community. As more people begin to participate, however, the aforementioned motivations will increase, creating a virtuous cycle in which more participation begets more participation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_forum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense_of_community
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