The popular social media website Digg was conceptualized by Kevin Rose and was actually created through a proposal on elance.com.
Many more companies now are looking to outsource their IT and internet marketing to India and other developing countries to try and save on costs.
DoubtSourcing.com is a weekly (and weakly funny) comic about IT outsourcing, written by Sandeep Sood. I came across this one recently and had to share it with you! If you’ve ever tried outsourcing your IT work you’ll find it funny:
What have your experiences been with outsourcing your IT?
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Sandeep is really on to something. Outsourcing to ‘software sweatshops’ is all too common.
Outsourcing is about high value, not low cost.
Raza Imam
http://BoycottSoftwareSweatshops.com
The fact is, you’ll get good and bad outsourcing results both offshore and also locally.
Here’s an interesting article about that:
http://www.jamesbrausch.com/outsourcing-to-india/
…where he describes some unsuccessful outsourcing experiences with some “big name” outsourcing firms in India.
Whether you use local, national or offshore help, you need to try out a lot of people before you find the quality talent.
Cheers,
Jim