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“Generous” and “Stingy” Advice Sharing Among Peer Freelancers in Professional and Creative Project Work Considering Competitive Advantage

“Generous” and “Stingy” Advice Sharing Among Peer Freelancers in Professional and Creative Project Work Considering Competitive Advantage
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Copyright: 2022
Pages: 16
Source title: Practical Peer-to-Peer Teaching and Learning on the Social Web
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Shalin Hai-Jew (Hutchinson Community College, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6496-7.ch004

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Abstract

To make ends meet as a freelancer, people have to build a serious and credible skillset (through formal education, credentialing, deep practice) and offer sufficient public information to draw the attention of potential clients. Depending on their particular expertise, they have to have social contacts in the field, and they have to be active on various platforms to bid for work. Freelancers have a variety of social media platforms that they may socialize on for mutual support and advice sharing. Sometimes, to build their credibility, freelancers will create and share peer-to-peer teaching and learning resources. These individuals and teams have to share relevant information without giving away any competitive advantage, given the sparsity of paid jobs and projects. To consider generosity and stinginess of social advice sharing, this work explores some peer-shared teaching and learning resources on the Social Web surrounding freelance work, including a set of 126 slideshows on a popular social slide-sharing site and 16 video transcripts from a popular video-sharing site.

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