For what is it worth, I can comment on my own experiences as a contractor, doing freelance taxonomy work.
Both jobs were working remotely out of my home using proprietary systems, developed in-house by the engineers on the respective teams. This meant that the developers were creating systems employed indexing/taxonomy principles and the 'content' team, of which I was a member, was on hand to do alot of work disambiguating terms through these proprietary applications.
The projects were for the yellow pages, yellowbook.com, and an ecommerce site having an application to shop for anything over your mobile phone, MShopper. Both endeavors were very part time with many starts and stops.
The work itself was a small part of a larger project that was outsourced for the yellow pages, and for the ecommerce site was dependent on servers running properly and technical issues being attended to.
Both positions were solely word-of-mouth.
Marianne Iauco
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 9:07 PM
Subject: Re: [taxonomies] RE: Taxonomies SIG meeting issues
I agree with Carol on that topic. Finding freelance work can be tricky.
Paula McCoy
----- Original Message -----
From: Carol Reed <caree15@bluestemclarity.com>
Date: Monday, April 13, 2009 12:50
Subject: [taxonomies] RE: Taxonomies SIG meeting issues
To: taxonomies@yahoogroups.com
> I won't be at the conference, but I'd love more discussion on
> freelancetaxonomy work: what applications are appropriate for
> offsite freelancers
> (database CVs, enterprise taxonomies, etc.), what portions of
> that work can
> be done remotely, and how freelancers can launch in this area
> (networking,subcontracting opportunities, etc.).
>
> Since I don't live in a big city (quite the opposite, especially
> these days
> in southeast Michigan!), remote opportunites are what I'm most
> interested in
> pursuing. I look forward to whatever discussions happen.
>
>
> Carol Reed
> www.bluestemclarity.com
>
>
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> -----------
> --------------------------------------------
> On April 13, Heather Hedden wrote:
>
> As the majority of members will not be in attendance, it would
> be great to
> get some discussion issues, concerns, and questions voiced here
> by the rest
> of us, which the members at the conference lunch meeting can
> then discuss.
> What issues would you like to see addressed?
>
>
>
>
>
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