For aspiring freelancers and knowledge workers this looks to have a lot of potential: Skype Prime apparently allows you to advertise your expertise on specific topics, and to charge people for your advice. What a pity that I know nothing of value to anyone – only a vast amount of useless trivia!
I found out about this via a post on Preetam’s blog, which has other interesting snippets. For example he finds that the Chinese he meets usually put their chat address on their business cards. I wondered about this when I printed my own personal cards: should I include MSN and Skype information? In the end, I didn’t – I already go through periods of being invited to join the friends list of Chinese people I’ve never met, and I usually refuse. Perhaps I should set up accounts that I only advertise on my cards, though. Not sure, I’ll have to think about that: Preetam is right when he says “This chat thing is changing the way we work and learn and maybe even earn”. I need to think a bit more about my positioning first, though.
That reminds me of two articles I saw recently on Web Worker Daily:
- Three steps to introduce social software to your employer
- The dangerous myth of the dream job
Check out the Skype Extra called BitWine, it actually let you build a web page with your expertise and lat people call you even if they do not have your Skype name.
Among other benefit you get paid instantly and you are not limited in the type of services you can provide.
You can start your exploration at http://www.BitWine.com
or Tools->Do More->Get Extras->Featured Extras->BitWine.
hi – noticed you refer to hub culture a few times in your blog posts – fory our blog roll there is an ‘official’ site at http://www.hubculture.com – should you wish to add it to your list
tks for the mention!