I 'Hired' A Virtual Personal Assistant To Do My Job

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15 points·prayag··5 comments

No better way for the journalist to show the value of the service than to have a MobileWorker write it for him. Good stuff.

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.

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.

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?

Disclaimer: looking at signing up

I think this says a lot more about Business Insider than MobileWorks.

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