[consulting] Consulting directory

[John Sechrest]

Actually, having a site review of a company, where someone goes and 
explores the company can do even better that client reviews.

The question is whether people want to pay for that review service in any way.



"Steve Purkiss" <steve at open4.org> writes:

 % IMHO nothing beats testimonials from existing clients.
 % 
 % my 2p
 % 
 % On 3/21/07, KevinImNotSpacey <kevin.amerson at gmail.com> wrote:
 % > Manual vetting of companies or individuals, that is one of the things I
 % > would like to see out of membership (to answer your previous post).  That is
 % > sort of what Yahoo Directory provides with a  $300 listing fee.
 % >
 % > A few other companies like linkedin.com and glgroup.com do at least some
 % > level of manual or automated vetting to improve the quality of professionals
 % > in the network.
 % >
 % >
 % >  On 3/21/07, Boris Mann <boris at bryght.com> wrote:
 % > > On 3/21/07, Colan Schwartz <colan at openject.com> wrote:
 % > > > On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 09:40:08PM -0400, Mehboob Alam wrote:
 % > > > > Let's go back to Boris's request for features.. while it seems there
 % > > > > are many developers and firms that can install and modify a Drupal
 % > > > > site, I think developers who can create/modify/customize modules
 % > > > > (plug-ins?) would be more interesting. How does one rate this kind of
 % > > > > capability?
 % > > >
 % > > > Maybe the directory can include ratings that tie into users' profiles on
 % > > > drupal.org, and come up with figures based on contributed patches and
 % > > > modules.
 % > >
 % > > I *think* we'll wanting to be keeping it simple at first. It would be
 % > > separate from drupal.org (likely off the association website, but it's
 % > > all not settled), but could then link to the user profile, where you
 % > > can see commits.
 % > >
 % > >
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