In case you haven’t noticed, there are approximately 3 billion different ways in which friends, relatives, clients, freelancers, employers, and anyone else riding the World Wide Web can communicate. Okay, so maybe I can’t back that number up, but the point is, there are enough communications-based software suites, stand-alone programs, …
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Using the Internet to Open your Lines of Communication
Freelance animation and illustration are among the creative fields booming here at oDesk, so we thought our talented animators and illustrators deserved their very own list of helpful and inspiring blogs and web sites devoted to their craft. If we’ve missed any of your favorites, let us know! THINKING ANIMATION From …
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Work From Home Tuesday: 10 Blogs for Freelance Animators and Illustrators
Despite the economic hardship we hear about every day on the morning news, this is one of the most exciting times to be alive. There are three reasons. First, everyone unanimously agrees that the status quo is broken. That means new approaches to old problems are in high demand.
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Buyer Voice: Virtual Assistants Turn Economic Hardship into Opportunity
From building a portfolio to moving onward on oDesk towards a profitable freelancing career, Sara Haley shares some perspective from the provider’s view in her eBook series, How to Make Money on oDesk. Here, she shares what she has learned during her time in the oDesk oConomy. It’s a vicious …
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The Power of Feedback: Get Started Freelancing Without Any Feedback
Announced today, oDesk Staffing gives U.S.-based freelancers access to group health coverage options, retirement plans and education savings accounts, in addition to the automatic billing and guaranteed payment enjoyed by all oDesk users. The new service also lets businesses take advantage of oDesk’s guaranteed accurate billing and overall savings on …
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The Benefits of Full-Time Work, The Flexibility of Freelancing
Two months ago oDesk released a new job search page and today we’re excited to follow up with the next step – new job alert emails. The new system gives providers an ability to save their job searches. Additionally this gives full control over what job alert emails they receive by …
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Find the job you want – Phase II – Saved Searches & Job Alert Emails
I recently blogged the annual global conference of IIT Alumni, PanIIT 2008. It was a 3 days event focused on innovation across various domains including Rural Transformation, Entrepreneurship, Technology, and Infrastructure etc. With roughly 300 CEOs in the delegates and 6 parallel tracks of sessions, this conference offers unmatched depth …
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Conference Blogging: A powerhouse waiting to be plugged!
What is ADAMO? Well, you would have seen notebooks, laptops, Mac’s and I am sure just like me, you would be a huge fan who would have gasped on the Mac Book Air, when it was launched. History repeats itself, just that in technology, we always better historical experiences DELL’s ADAMO gives the …
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ADAMO – How DELL is leveraging Design and spreading it through a Viral Marketing Campaign
So, I want to implement Social Media Marketing for my business. But how do I start? The social media strategy for your business should be a function of the business objectives as well as the targeted audience. For e.g. If your audience is more business professionals, choose LinkedIn as the platform
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How do I determine what Social Media Marketing Plan will work for my business?
Another year ends today, another year begins tomorrow. As your New Year’s resolutions begin to form, don’t forget how much nearly every decision affects your career as a work-from-home, self-employed, freelancing, independent contractor. Take a look at some bad habits and poor decisions you might have made in 2009 to help you determine the tone …
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Bad Freelance Habits: Say Goodbye to the Old You
Recently oDesk asked internationally known business coach Dr. Lois Frankel, best-selling author of Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office, about the future of freelancing in the business world. Here are the highlights of that conversation: oDesk: Where do freelancers fit into the current business climate, and how can they make themselves …
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Freelancing Conversation with Business Coach Dr. Lois Frankel
Following the launch of the e-commerce program in the U.S., we are excited to announce that the European e-commerce program is planned to go live in March 2010. The e-commerce program has been tremendously successful in the U.S., with about 600 new paid apps available in just 2 months, and the extension to Europe gives developers a compelling new opportunity to distribute and monetize their apps. In Europe, Palm Pre is currently available in the UK, Ireland, Spain and Germany, providing excellent opportunities for developers to do business in multiple large markets. The general app catalog model is not new, but what we’re doing with it is. The Palm developer program extends the unique web orientation of the Palm webOS platform, providing developers innovative opportunities to leverage the web as a promotional channel for applications
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Paid Applications Coming to webOS in Europe
What an amazing time to be alive! This year has been so full of changes, challenges and openings. This is the time when many make resolutions and set goals about their health, finances, careers, family and spiritual life. It is our wish that, whatever your resolutions or goals, that you will all enjoy the success to which you aim. Everyone love the week between Christmas and New Year’s
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How to Make SMART New Year Resolutions
2010 will undoubtedly be a year of technology innovation. In 2009, Twitter revolutionized the way we get news, it brought us closer to those who were a part of the news, almost making traditional media irrelevant. We don’t know who (or what) will be the Twitter of 2010, but below are a few predictions for the coming year . Google’s Chrome Netbook OS will be a hit- Their OS will mostly be dependent on a Google Account
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Chrome Netbook OS; Tablet PCs; LBS; Open Source
There are 3 phrases that have rarely been spoken in the same sentence recently: Jobs 2009,Social Media and Mobile Technology are the exception. According to a report by Indeed, 7 of the 10 fastest growing opportunities of 2009 were social media or mobile-tech related, with Twitter showing the strongest growth. This isn’t surprising, of course, as growth is relative and where we were before as social media was not nearly the buzzword in 2008 as it was in 2009. The important aspect here is that as 2010 rolls through, we should expect the gains to continue and the relationship between the economy and the social web to stay tied hand-in-hand. Until the “next big thing” comes out to replace sites like Twitter and Facebook as valid business needs, we shouldn’t expect anything to change.
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Social Media and Mobile Tech Jobs Show Strongest Growth in 2009
China will make it easier for foreign investors and entrepreneurs to start businesses in the country, especially in its western provinces, the government said in a statement released after the latest State Council meeting on Wednesday. It said China would open a wider range of sectors such IT, software outsourcing to foreign investors and entrepreneurs and would encourage them to establish labor-intensive businesses in the west, the State Council, or cabinet, decided at a routine meeting. The cabinet’s decision will serve as a guideline for local governments to develop specific policies for implementation. China drew $77.9 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first 11 months of 2009, 9.9% less than in the same period of 2008. Inflows, which surged in the years after the country joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, are in the midst of recovering after being hit hard late last year by the global economic slowdown.
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China Encourages Foreign Entrepreneurs & Investors to Establish Businesses in Country’s West Regions
Open Source has been around for quite some time, but odds are most people you ask won’t know what “open source” is. This isn’t because open source is obscure, but rather it has slipped into the mainstream, and unless you’re already in the know, there’s no real reason you will have noticed it. But open source is here, and it’s growing. Linux maximus Linux was written by Linus Torvalds in 1991. Linux itself was based on earlier incomplete kernels that themselves were available for reworking and building upon.
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Say hello to the Open Source Decade
New Year 2010 Desktop Wallpapers: 3d, Green and Shiny Wallpaper Backgrounds Collection For 2010 . Happy New Year 2010!. Decorate your Desktop With these amazing and hot Desktop Wallpapers. The First Green Wallpaper (3d typography New Year Wallpaper) is a Natural Inspiration Ahead of the New Year
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New Year 2010 Desktop Wallpaper Backgrounds (Original, Widescreen Edition)
The post-Christmas annual statement by Amazon.com has revealed that its Kindle e-book has become the most-gifted Amazon item ever this Christmas. Reportedly, the e-book sales have outnumbered the sale of real books, and 9.5 million Kindle e-books were ordered on Dec. 14, which amounts to 110 e-books being ordered every second. Jeff Bezos, the chief executive officer and founder of Amazon says, “We are grateful to our customers for making Kindle the most gifted item ever in our history.” “The Kindle Store includes over 390,000 books and the largest selections of the most popular books people want to read, including New York Times Best Sellers and New Releases,” he adds. E-books are very affordable and also cheaper than real books.
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Kindle becomes most gifted Amazon item ever
One of the things even a novice in Internet Marketing would have predicted at the end of 2008 was the fact that more and more traditional marketing spending will move online at a rate more increasing than before. As told , the spending was expected to increase in organic SEO, and it has, and it will continue to do so (more in later posts in the series). Ok, so as search engine marketers, there were few predictions that are mostly evident by the content of our blogs: Prediction 1: Google will take a step closer to ruling this world: kidding, no bet I am not, we at TG realize the importance of knowing how Google is changing, and that is why we watch the search engine behavior closely, some examples are here , here , and here . Point being, we all use Google for search, so more and more of SEO world will try to learn the Google insides more than ever. Convert or not?
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Year in review—SEO– 2009 in Hindsight
According to China’s Ministry of Information and Industry (MII), China ’s IT & information outsourcing service industry expects to hit 200B RBM ($28B) mark in 2009. Globally, outsourcing market is about $405B with a 3-4 % yoy growth. In the past three quarters of 2009, software and information outsourcing revenue reaches 146.4 B RBM, representing a 24.5% yoy growth. Domestic markets grew to 125.5B RBM in the past three quarters, a 25.7% yoy growth; international offshore market reaches 13.2B RBM, an equally impressive 18% yoy growth
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China Service Outsourcing Market to Exceed $25 B in 2009, a 24.5% YoY Growth