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How Website Owners Can Share the Wealth with Currently Unpaid Writers

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Because our site, O OpEdNews.com is custom built and designed, it would be very easy for us to implement a project like this. I'm sure open source communities like scoop and drupal could also easily make it happen, as could blogger and other blog building sites. This could also work for news media and other media sites as well, that use content management systems.

If something like this already exists, I haven't heard of it. If you know of anything like it, please leave a comment.

If you like the idea, send this article to one of the sites you think could make it happen, and to any site you post content to. On the web, content is king. As the provider of content, you deserve your share of the rewards. If enough of us make it known that this is an idea that is wanted, they'll build it.

As someone who has made his living as a writer, I know how tough it can be, and how so many budding writers do NOT make it, generating enough a living to live off of. For me, this is a no brainer, rewarding the people who currently post articles to my site because of the non-monetary reasons-- to get their ideas out, to be visible on the web, to give reasons for people to check out their personal websites, their books, services, products etc.

But what if people who wrote knew that all that they wrote would keep paying them dividends, for years? And what if website owners knew that if articles they first published could be shared and reprinted and theat they'd make income from the reprinting, without going through contracts? I think it would encourage writing, encourage sharing and the bottom line would be that more people would write, more people would be putting their ideas out for the world, for humanity to share. Who knows? Maybe one person might write something that changes the world-- because she knew that she'd get paid for writing it and putting it out there.

I expect that not all website owners will want to give up their share of the pie, but once a few site owners start doing it, they'll have to get in the loop, or they'll lose their content providers to the site owners who honor their writers and members by sharing the wealth.

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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, (more...)
 

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