Re:I 'Hired' A Virtual Personal Assistant To Do My Job
by abat on Friday October 18, 2013 @02:46PM
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If they're smart they're going to put their best people (and probably spend a lot more time than they bill) on an article that's going to get them press.
I like the concept of testing out the service, but I'd like to see what their typical results look like in comparison.
Re:I 'Hired' A Virtual Personal Assistant To Do My Job
by anandkulkarni on Friday October 18, 2013 @03:27PM
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Ha, that would've been sneaky! As it happens, I was pretty insistent that we stay out of the process, and that the experiment run naturally.
The reason was that I've seen this kind of thing go awry when the company interferes to try and make itself look good (ie: http://www.fastcompany.com/1773610/column-was-crowdsourced-s...). Our writing pool and management system is solid, so there was little to worry about.
The other reason that this worked well is that Dylan wrote from a set of notes that outlined the story he wanted to tell, rather than letting them write something totally from scratch.
Re:I 'Hired' A Virtual Personal Assistant To Do My Job
by toomuchtodo on Friday October 18, 2013 @11:03PM
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If on a Team or above pricing plan, is it possible to integrate with our Github private repo to have the work results returned to us? How are results of requests typically provided back to a customer?
I like the concept of testing out the service, but I'd like to see what their typical results look like in comparison.
The reason was that I've seen this kind of thing go awry when the company interferes to try and make itself look good (ie: http://www.fastcompany.com/1773610/column-was-crowdsourced-s...). Our writing pool and management system is solid, so there was little to worry about.
The other reason that this worked well is that Dylan wrote from a set of notes that outlined the story he wanted to tell, rather than letting them write something totally from scratch.
Disclaimer: looking at signing up