I'm moving on from my current job to a tech lead position building a social-networking-esque startup that connects people looking for opportunities to people who provide them. Basically, it's a job-search site for a niche market. The nature of the niche requires users to upload videos of their work, so leveraging an existing service probably won't work. I'm under NDA for now but may be able to provide more details in the future...
Anyway, from the above description, you can guess that I've already identified this as basically a matching process, and I hope to optimize that process to help the users of the site. I have TONS of ideas for how to improve things, since right now there is no real connectivity built in - you enter your profile, send in your video, and hope for the best. I'm looking for some literature or books that might help me look at this process more holistically, learn from others who have built successful matchmaking or job-search sites, and avoid running down the impossible paths. I'll be building the tech team from scratch, so need some gritty details to go with an overall approach to the user's problem (so read: algorithms, plus possible sample personas and process flows). I don't know if the above exists, but if you want to learn more let me know, or if you can recommend any good reading on the topic of sites that connect people (with a purpose) together, please post or let me know via email. Thanks! - Bryan http://www.bryanminihan.com ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
