The Business Insider has posted an AOL user survey of its Seed.com freelancers. It has some interesting findings on what drives people to contribute and what AOL might be pursuing as operating tactics.

While it's not clear how many contributors participated in the survey, their top motivators to get them to provide content: contests to encourage and ratings systems to reinforce.

Similarly, the survey suggests AOL is looking at outsourcing some functions like copy-editing and fact-checking.

The survey is attached.
 

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