While most amateur bloggers make their fair share of internet and blogosphere faux pas before they learn the ropes, professionals can’t really afford to make too many mistakes — especially when it comes to copyright infringement and libel. When I was a newbie blogger, I naively thought any photo on the internet that did not state its …
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What Every Blogger and Freelance Writer Should Know About Internet Copyright and Libel Laws
In response to provider feedback, we have redesigned the “Apply to Job” form to make it easier to send just the right application. All-new styling brings this form in line with our design direction and sets the stage for future updates and additions. Set your rate right in-line instead of after you …
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Applying to a job just got a little easier
Thank you all for your fantastic entries in yesterday’s contest! Hearing about your oDesk milestones and successes was nothing short of inspiring. Some of our favorite entries were: #oWin #oDesk I’m finishing up another web design/development job today. Its great to work from home! oDesk Rocks! – @getterdonegurus made my first major …
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And the Winner Is…
It’s Thursday, and tweople are talking. What are they talking about? Your oDesk Milestones! They are talking, and YOU might be winning. What could you win? A $50 Amazon gift card and an oDesk t-shirt! Here’s the deal: Tweet about your oDesk Milestones.
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#oDesk Twitter Contest – Your Odesk Milestones
Finding just the right oDesk providers got easier! We’ve unveiled a new advanced search box for Provider search to let you drill down into your search and find candidates who match more specific criteria. You can choose multiple categories, locations, and more. We have a lot more improvements planned for …
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Introducing Faceted Provider Search
As freelancers, many of us overlook the value of commenting on blogs as a means to boost our visibility within the right circles. Making valuable, intelligent commentary on blogs is a great way to get your name and website link out there, and in front of someone else’s nicely targeted audience …
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Freelancers: Make Your Comments Count
A rebound in the economy could lead to the emergence of new startup companies and result in an uptick in tech-industry hiring. Last Friday, the Commerce Department revised upward its already impressive gross domestic product growth estimate for the fourth quarter of 2009. Previously, the department said that growth was 5.7 …
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Trend Watch: New Startup Activity Could Spur Hiring
The oDesk Online Jobs Report was released last week, and after having a chance to review the numbers, there is a very interesting trend that popped up. The skill “web design” is down 26 places from last year, however the category “Web Design” has remained unchanged …
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Online Jobs Report: Web Design Isn’t Dead
Yesterday, Gary shared his vision for the future with attendees at SXSW 2010 as part of the panel “What Coworking Tells Us About the Future of Work”. Today, he shared with me some of his thoughts on coworking, co-location, and the future of work: Coworking is the future of work. There’s …
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Coworking and the Future of Work
To be a successful freelance writer, you must be proficient at more than just forming sentences. A writer needs to know their way around a computer — or at least the computer’s word processing program — and needs a working knowledge of email, so written documents can …
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Skills to Boost Your Freelance Writing Resume
I should disclose my own personal bias regarding Google’s Buzz. I’ve already disabled Buzz. However, to be fair I adopted early and rejected early due to the initial privacy oversights that Google made. cNet provides good instructions for disappearing yourself from Buzz, they can be …
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BUZZ – Pros and Cons for Remote Workers
President Obama’s recent signing of a $938 billion overhaul of the U.S. health care system is both historic and controversial. Here’s the skinny on how the latest health care legislation affects you: I’m a freelancer/independent contractor/self-employed. As of 2014, you will be required to have health insurance, or face a financial penalty …
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The Health Care Bill for Freelancers and Small Businesses
Giving your skills to a project can be a great way to gain experience and boost your resume or portfolio. “Free” is a relative term and, in this case, your payment should — at the very least — be the experience and contacts you gain. As a general rule, if someone …
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Free Work: When Developers Give it Away for Free
In the age of recession, everyone wants to know what job skills are in and what job skills are on their way out. No one wants to stockpile know-how in a field with a short shelf life, and some of the once-popular, ultra-specific tech skills have been needed one day and obsolete the next. Predicting the future …
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Online Social Media Skills Not a Passing Fad
Last weekend we attended another Startup Weekend in beautiful Miami, FL, and again came away excited to have been a part of such an innovative and exciting event. The intense, three-day event was jam-packed with brainstorming exciting ideas and executing on them to form multiple brand new startup businesses in …
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oDesk Partners with Startup Weekend
Recently oDesk had a chance to corner Nick Krym, the outsourcing guru behind Pragmatic Outsourcing. He’s a technology professional with over two decades in the IT industry, and he’s been outsourcing to offshore teams for more than 15 years. We knew if anyone could tell us the secret to successful communication …
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Communicating With Your Outsourced Team
We get it. Freelancing can be a tough gig to come by, and sometimes you can do everything right and still come up short of jobs. If you are one of those people, we wish you the best of luck and a world of patience in your continuing search for clients. …
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10 Reasons You Aren’t Getting Freelance Work
Recently oDesk had the opportunity to talk about writer-targeted scams with marketing expert Marcia Yudkin, author of 11 books inluding Freelance Writing for Magazines and Newspapers, whose work has appeared in the New York Times and Boston Globe. Her insightful article “You Too Can Sniff Out a Scam” got us wondering what freelance writers need to …
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3 Scams Every Freelance Writer Should Know About
When you ditched your 9 to 5 job, did you also ditch “office hours”? Join the club. One of the benefits of freelancing is the ability to plan work hours around your day — rather than the other way around
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Freelance Challenge: Does Keeping Office Hours Increase Productivity?
In my eagerness to land a particular gig last year I forgot the cardinal rule every smart careerist follows: Research the client before you apply for the job. Foolishly believing that my resume would speak for itself, I did not specify my unique qualifications to meet the needs of the …
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Research Your Client: Get the Job, Keep the Job
oDesk lets hundreds of thousands of talented providers find the work they want to do, but sometimes when we’re looking at the oConomy’s satellite perspective (almost $150 million earned via oDesk!) on our vibrant marketplace, we wonder about the individual stories, not just the numbers. Nearly every month, we run …
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Has oDesk Changed Your Life?