Blellow, the microblog for freelancers (but not only)
A new social network for the business world has just been created. It is Blellow, a microblogging system similar to Twitter which, instead of asking its users the general question “What are you doing?”, asks “What are you working on?”
Although it is addressed mainly to freelancers, Blellow can easily be used also by companies. Its objective is to help people solve problems connected to their work with the collaboration of other users.
Through the creation of groups or, even better, by navigating in them or in the social network in general, companies can use the database of professionals it contains for recruiting.
It is a system that, in a way, is similar to the valid and reliable LinkedIn which is now, in my opinion, still one of the most useful and effective networks for business.
Together with this, just as it happens on Twitter, Blellow is used as a support when you have a problem working on a project. The number of users in the community can answer and help anybody who has already build his or her own network of contacts.
Finally, it is possible to post jobs, that is, create a sort of announcement with an optional sum offered, as in this case.
As I said at the beginning of this post, the service is mainly addressed to freelancers and, consequently, the kind of collaborations required usually refers to temporary or occasional jobs and not to open-ended hiring, also because this would change the essence of the project.
Blellow is not meant to be simply a site for job announcements, such as Monster, but rather it is a way to establish a network of professional contacts to interact with or rely on.
But still, once a certain harmony has been created with one or more contacts and their skills have been proved, companies can decide to establish with them a more durable relationship.
Tags: microblogging
March 18th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
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