SkillWho Blog - Chronicals of a Web Start-Up
Phase 1 of Video and Multimedia Rolled Out
Showcase Your Skills and Talents in Multimedia. Exciting news! (Well, for us at least). SkillWho.com is now more valuable and entertaining than ever. Now members can upload videos of their skills and talents. Also, in the talent show section of the site, members can view, vote, and comment on the skills of other members. Soon we'll be having competitions as well.
10 Steps to Doing What You Love
We’ve all heard the sage advice: “Find a career that you love so it doesn’t feel like work and you’ll be happier.” Difficult to disagree with that. So why are so many of us doing work just to pay the bills? Sure, most of our jobs aren’t so bad, but I would say that most [...]
Site Finally Moved to New Data Center
Tonight we successfully moved the site from an outsourced hosting server to a more powerful, secure, and inexpensive solution in a local data center. There was almost no downtime. We put up a maintence screen for a few minutes. Site seems to be working fine on the new server and it’s faster.
Took us a few [...]
The “Glamorous” Life of a Start Up CEO
Being the CEO of a start up is quite “glamorous.” Most may not be aware, but founding a start up is no picnic. We don’t get to ride around in jets and sit in leather chairs drinking fine whiskey while rubbing elbows with billionaires. That is, unless we’re already a wildly successful executive, then that [...]
SkillWho.com State of the Union
Welcome to the SkillWho blog! We’ll start with our story and where we’re headed. Since most of us don’t read online anymore, we just scan, I’ll try to use bullets for your easy scanning pleasure.
SkillWho (www.skillwho.com) was started to enable people to share and find skills and talents within their social network (did I mention [...]