In an effort to reduce fraudulent job posts and users, we have added a link to flag content as inappropriate. At the bottom of every member profile you will see a link that says “Flag this member as inappropriate” and at the bottom of every job post you will see a link that says “Flag this job as inappropriate.” If a member or job is flagged 3 times the member will be automatically notified, and we will take a look and delete the member/job if necessary. Please flag any fraudulent content you come across to help keep the community safe and legitimate.

The issue with messages not appearing in your inbox is now resolved. We sincerely apologize for the error and thank you all for your patience this week. For those who are curious, the messages table in the database got corrupted and needed repair.

We are aware of an issue that some users are experiencing with messages not displaying in their message inbox. We are working on a fix for it that we can hopefully implement this week.

Thanks for your patience.

Do you want to outsource your work but don’t know where to start?  Do you badly need a VA but don’t have the time to look for and hire one?  Have you always wanted to hire online workers but don’t want to undergo the exhaustive and time-consuming recruitment process?

If you answered “yes” to any of the questions I posed above, then EasyHire might just be the service that you need.  With EasyHire, you just tell us the job opening you are hiring for, the kind of worker you are looking for, and the skill set you’d want them to have and we do the hiring for you.  We will choose workers that fit your requirements, give them tests, and interview them.  All  you do is sit back and wait a few days for us to choose the perfect online worker for you.

EasyHire is a very practical and affordable service.  At $350 for first time customers and $200 for repeat customers, the service is well worth it if it [...] Continue reading

Last week we had an issue with the site, which caused some users to receive the following error when attempting to log in:

503: Service Temporarily Unavailable
Too many IP addresses accessing one secure area!
Please contact Support if you require assistance.

We use a member management plugin called s2member, and it was restricting access to users who had viewed the site from multiple IP addresses (several computers or networks). We deactivated the plugin last week so users could still log in. I re-enabled the plugin today and reset the “IP Restriction Logs” and everything should be working correctly now.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

As many of you will notice, this weekend we released a major update to EasyOutsource. Below is a list of the most prominent feature updates and improvements.

1. Upgrade to WordPress 3.1 and BuddyPress 1.2.5.

We upgraded the site to the newest versions of WordPress and BuddyPress. It took a significant amount of work to get the site ready to upgrade to the new version of BuddyPress, but it’s well worth it. This new version has many improvements and we’re now on the upgrade path to future updates as they come out. Later in the year you should expect improvements to privacy, search and messaging as these updates are rolled out in the “BuddyPress core.”

2. Favorites list replaces the Friends list.

We used to have a reciprocal friends list, much like Facebook. We came to the conclusion that this isn’t the ideal way to manage user connections on a job site, and so we removed it. Instead you will now see an “Add to Favorites” link on all [...] Continue reading

This weekend EasyOutsource officially passed the 2000 member mark. As of this writing there are 1350 workers, 681 employers and 430 open jobs. Congratulations to Jonnee Louh J. Busain on being our 2000th member. We’re working hard to grow this community for everyone. As mentioned previously we will be rolling out a major upgrade to EasyOutsource soon to make your experience here even better. We hope you will all enjoy it.

I had the privilege of writing a guest post for Kathy Dobson’s blog – Dedicated to Freedom.  Kathy is an advocate of outsourcing to the Philippines.  She was interested to hear from a Filipino outsourced worker’s point of view on the topic of outsourcing to our country, so I offered to write an article for her.

I was fortunate that readers and followers to Kathy’s blog were also interested to hear our opinion on the issues that surround the topic of outsourcing to the Philippines.  You can read my article on A Filipino freelancer’s thoughts on outsourcing by clicking on the link.

If you also have a topic you would want me to write about on Kathy’s blog, please give your suggestions on the comments section.

EasyOutsource now has a page on Facebook and on Twitter.

Become fans of our facebook page or follow us on twitter to get updates on the latest job posts, featured worker, new site features, new blog posts, etc.

Don’t be left behind, know what’s new on EasyOutsource by connecting with us on facebook and twitter.

As discussed in previous articles, EasyOutsource is built on a fantastic social networking platform for WordPress called BuddyPress. BuddyPress is updated by an active community of developers on a regular release cycle, and our site will be updated with new features as new versions of BuddyPress are rolled out.

Our site’s version number corresponds with the BuddyPress version number we are using. We are currently at EasyOutsource 1.1, built on BuddyPress 1.1.3. A major update to EasyOutsource (1.2) is right around the corner and will be using BuddyPress 1.2.5.

BuddyPress Roadmap: http://buddypress.org/about/roadmap

BuddyPress Development Updates: http://bpdevel.wordpress.com

Updates for EasyOutsource 1.2

Favorites List:

We are doing away with the Friends system entirely as it doesn’t make much sense on a job hiring site. We will be replacing it with the ability to add users to your Favorites list. It will work similarly to the existing Friends list, with the main difference being that Favorites are one-way (do not require a confirmation) and are private.

Sorting of search results:

You will be [...] Continue reading