problogger job board review
Blog: Problogger
Category: general
Alexa ranking: 2,461
Google Pagerank: 7/10
RSS: Yes
Cost: $50 per posting
Time: 30 days
Born: Aug., 2006
Introduction
ProBlogger, the brainchild of Darren Rowse, is a blog devoted to helping bloggers earn money. Rowse himself maintains more than a dozen blogs on various topics such as Digital Photography, the Athens Olympics, Camera Phones, Digital Photography, Spirituality, Pop Culture, and Life in Australia. In 2005 he helped launch www.b5media.com, a network of more than 150 blogs.
Pros
If you accept the premise that a Web site devoted to helping bloggers make money will be visited and revisited by bloggers worldwide, a job board devoted to helping bloggers find employment is a natural service for ProBlogger to provide. At $50 per posting for 30 days, the site is certainly affordable.
Cons
Before evaluating whether http://jobs.problogger.net/ is an effective site for recruiting bloggers, one must consider what a blogger is. Rowse himself defines a blogger as anyone who maintains a web journal in reverse chronological order. So, if you need to hire someone who maintains a web journal in reverse chronological order – without any concern as to what it is that they write about – this might be a site to consider. However, the fact that the site has only accumulated 25 listings over a two-month period would seem to indicate that a corporation looking to hire someone to write about, say Java, isn’t really interested in hiring someone who blogs about, say movies.
Summary
A blog devoted to bloggers is a winning idea, and listing job opportunities for bloggers is something to be commended. However, the notion of a job board that lists blog openings ever becoming a commercial success strikes this reviewer as far-fetched.
review by Michael Wilder, www.recruitsavvy.com