How do you Profit from Creativity When Technology Delivers it For Free?
By Judith Parker Harris | February 5, 2010
Block: Giving Away your livlihood
Buster: Free is the pathway to abundance
I want to share an excellent blog post with you written by the Social Media Boomer, Barbara White. Exploring the conundrum of how you make money through social media when you are encouraged to give so much of your information away for free. The title of her article is, Social Media is about Giving and Supporting Others.
thesocialmediaboomer.com/social-media/social-media-is-about-giving-and-supporting-others
Barbara walks her talk. She set up my social bookmarking for me — for free, gave our group a seminar on tweetdeck and offers what I think is the question of the decade: With all information accessible to everyone from so many different sources, how do people make a living off of their own intellectual property? The music industry sees their songs downloaded for free, piracy in the film industry is rampant and all the big players in the book publishing industry are struggling to remain relevant when up against I-pads and the next latest and greatest invention to disseminate books for next to nothing.
So, I ask all of you, is free the answer? And how about the partner of free, which is forming communities, partnerships, groups and teams to help each other succeed?
There is one thing I know for sure and that is that in today’s Information Society, connecting with others is crucial to success. I am happy to be connected to Barbara White and I encourage you to do the same.
The rest of my article is the comment that was inspired by Barbara’s Blog post.
About 20-years ago, I had my first epiphany. I was in an impossibly hard exercise class in Hawaii with all other women participants half my age. I tried to keep up, but couldn’t. My goal was to get into a body-hugging, jeweled dress for the Academy Awards. (I was attending for the first time) When I felt my lungs about to explode, I suddenly looked around me for help and I saw that I was surrounded by beauty — the Pacific Ocean on one side and beautiful tropical gardens all around. I took in deep, body cleansing breaths and suddenly had more energy flow into my body than I knew what to do with. The epiphany: Everything you need is all around you and if you connect to the energy you will thrive on abundance. I caught up with the girls, finished the workout, fit into the dress and had a great time at the Awards. However, my life changed. I would always be aware of my environment, my connections and the energy field of my life. Thank you, Barbara, for the epiphany from our Master Mind. I, too, have been haunted by giving away my hard-earned intellectual property for free. In the movie business, the copyright and ownership is everything, but that, too, is being eroded. For me, the bottom line is to get your gift out there. Make connections everywhere that you can, be conscious of the opportunities all around you and build through team work and community like we have in our own little, mastermind family. This is a huge topic. Let’s all continue to get it out there and help each other reap the rewards of our talent, knowledge and hard work.
I leave you with the question: What do we own other than the impact we have on others and on our planet? It seems that everything else we are simply borrowing or renting for the short time we’re here.
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