Kent Lewis, president here at Anvil Media, just got off the phone with Seth Godin (the best-selling author of more than seven books on marketing, the spread of ideas, -- e.g. Purple Cow!). Seth gave a brief write-up of the conversation on his blog:
"The most important part of the story is this: he doesn't do the community work for that reason [a profit motive]. He does it for the right reason--because it feels good to help his community. The magic of the zero-marginal-cost scalable nature of the web is that your volunteer effort goes a long way and generosity almost always pays off."
Seth is referring to pdxMindShare, an invaluable resource for numerous people here in Portland's business community.

