Doxmart provides you with a great opportunity to let others know what you offer, and the ability to share your knowledge with others worldwide as well as make money at the same time. Now with the new and improved personal profile you can really promote yourself with Doxmart.

Promote yourself on Doxmart

You can use the new keyword sketch to give a quick overview of your talents and areas of interest. Even better, we have included a newsflash on your profile to enable you to promote a specific opportunity or service therefore sharing significant information with others. And to add to this you can also showcase your talents by letting them know your current activity. Check out your new profile now!

You can use your profile to give information about professional and personal interests, specialist skills, special interests, professional and educational history and more importantly give your contact details with links to your website.

Take up the option of using the media gallery to demonstrate what you are really good at through video or audio or use it to help others to get to know you and your areas of interest. As always you can choose how much of your profile you make public to others.

You will now be kept up to date with your profile completeness.  As you probably know the more you let others know about you and your expertise the more contacts and opportunities that are likely to come your way.

Keep an eye out for the new features coming online throughout 2009 which will even further increase your ability to promote yourself and maximise your involvement in the Doxmart community.

The spirit of the entrepreneurial “garage” was celebrated at the recent Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford event, held at Saïd Business School on 20 November 2008. Doxmart founders Clive Mendes and Vito Fortunato were there to learn and share with other leading web masters.

Says Clive Mendes: “The keynote message that really struck a chord with me was that the forecast is that the successful web sites of the future, particularly in these recessionary times, will be those that help people to monetise what they are good at.

“This is exactly what Doxmart is doing and our new generation site, due to be launched early next year, will really offer this to our members. It will provide tools for people to publish their expertise, promote their skills, get answers and solutions to challenges and make useful contacts.

“Furthermore, by offering documents for translation (or offering translation services to members) we will encourage the sharing of knowledge between language cultures worldwide.”

There is still time to qualify for our December Refer A Friend prize draw. Simply refer three friends, who subsequently register to Doxmart, during December and we will enter you into a free prize draw to win a fantastic MP3 player! The draw will take place on the 3rd Day of Christmas (27th December 2008) and the winner informed by Doxmart message on that day.

This would make a great late Christmas present to yourself and give your friends the chance to share and profit from their special knowledge too.

Remember what Matthew Sparks, journalist at PC pro said about this function: “We’re in a knowledge economy now, so I’m told. Unfortunately, capitalising on knowledge can be hard. A new website intends to change all that by becoming a kind of eBay for information. Just as the original auction site allowed you to turn the old junk clogging up your attic into cash, Doxmart will let you flog all those Word documents, PDFs, spreadsheets, images, videos, thoughts and ideas that fill up your brain and hard disk.

“It’s a wonderful idea – transcribing the knowledge that you’ve spent years collecting into an easily consumable digital package, and spending the rest of your life comfortably living off of the revenue. The reality of this depends entirely of the worth of the knowledge you have stored up there.

“One interesting aspect is that if you refer users you get to take 4% of the revenue from their documents – out of Doxmart’s share – forever. That means that if a cure for the common cold, award-winning novel, best-selling album or scandalous photograph of Gordon Brown is uploaded by someone following this link, I can retire early. “

Original article at http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/08/15/ebay-your-ideas/

You can go directly to the Refer a Friend page on www.doxmart.com by clicking the link below:

http://www.doxmart.com/send-to-friend.aspx

Fresh from the recent joy in the Doxmart camp that we now have personal and business profile pages where our members can create their own profiles and network with each other we are reminded, last week, of the downside of the new ‘transparent’ society.A story on Yahoo news says that Australian call centre employee, Kyle Doyle, 21, is currently facing an internal investigation after he called in sick for work then updated his Facebook status bar to read: ‘Kyle Doyle is not going to work … I’m still trashed. SICKIE WOO!’.

The article goes on the say: “Unfortunately for Doyle his boss saw the incriminating status report.

“He emailed Doyle and requested a doctor’s note to prove that a sick day was required, without mentioning the entry but saying that his line manager was under the impression that the day off was not for medical reasons.” My leave was due to medical reasons, so you cannot deny leave based on a line manager’s discretion, with no proof, please process leave as requested,” Doyle replied.

“The manager then revealed that he had seen the message and said the day off would not be granted.  Doyle now faces an investigation by his employer AAPT, Australia’s third largest telecoms operator.”

This just goes to prove how important and transparent social networking is.  Head-hunters use sites to check the profiles of applicants and clearly, as in hapless Doyle’s case, managers are savvy to the uses of such sites too.

What we’ve found interesting is that people are now ‘multi social siting’ and have different aspects of themselves displayed on different sites.  Clearly more business oriented sites will have business networks and an emphasis on skills and experience.

So what will the Doxmart community look like?  Well, it is unfolding and already we can see that people are balancing some personal info with business profiles.  Most importantly they are revealing what solutions they can offer or what solutions they need help with.  Maybe Doyle will find some of the employee related solutions relating to getting your CV in shape, finding a great job and keeping it helpful!