projektwerk

Hi all,

today we released a small membership account, called the “Starter” membership!

With this release we have added an additional, flexible membership option to projektwerk.

As a “Starter” you can use projektwerk for only 8€ a month, enabling a more extensive use compared with the “Basic” membership. The “Starter” membership probably suits you if you wish to proactively contact other users now and then and want to publish projects or profiles on a small scale.

Your benefits as a “Starter” user:

• Contact up to 3 project partners proactively each month – instead of having to wait for requests as a Basic member
• View complete project descriptions and profiles
• Receive detailed matching information on suitable project partners
• Bookmark interesting projects or profiles

More:

• Publish one profile or project at a time
• Receive daily updates for interesting new matches
• Refine your matches with location and relevance filters

The new projektwerk project archive now provides a better overview for multiple project postings on a single user account.

Last year we released the new status “archived” for expired projects. This means that a past project is still publicly visible for anyone interested; however, it does no longer appear in the drafts.

The new folder „archive“ can now be found in the menu tab „projects”, where it is possible to archive a project manually in its editing-modus. Expired projects will now be moved into the new “archive” folder automatically and not, as previously, saved as a draft.

Attention: The re-publishing of archived projects is only possible within four weeks after archiving. If a project is to be re-published at any later time, it has to be saved as a draft manually before its automatic archiving. Of course, all projects can be deleted permanently – if so desired. Although projects are visible only in an anonymized form, the archive is public and therefore accessible to everyone.

Since the beginning of the year projektwerk has consistently worked on improving the quality requirements for publishing projects and profiles.

To ensure certain quality standards and further finetune matching results, projects and profiles are required to include at least two skills and a description text of minimum 150 signs in order to be approved and published. With these improvements in place, projektwerk wants to filter out uninformative and incomplete project and profile descriptions.

For projektwerk freelance users this means better matching results and a more comprehensive overview of potential project providers. For project providers this means finding the perfect freelance professional faster: So all in all it is a win-win situation for both sides.

The general projektwerk newsletter is sent out to all projektwerk members once a month. Additionally, you will receive a newsletter that is customized especially for your branch once a month. The projektwerk newsletter keeps you informed of the latest news from the freelancer world: Read everything about upcoming business events, tips for successfully working with projektwerk or recent trends.

Do you want to receive the projektwerk newsletter? Here is a short explanation on how to always be up to date:

For new members: Just register on one of the projektwerk branch platforms and activate the checkbox for the newsletter during registration.

For existing members: After the log in on your branch platform, you open the tab “Home” in your menu-board via mouseover. Afterwards, you click on settings à account settings. Activate the checkbox for the newsletter and save your changes.

Have fun reading!

The last projektwerk release makes it possible to choose your preferred language directly on every site of projektwerk. Before the release, the language was chosen by your browser settings and could not be changed that quickly and easily.

At the moment, you can choose between English and German. You will find the selection right on top of every projektwerk site. This is another important step in the course of the internationalisation of projektwerk.

Good luck and success with the acquisition of projects on projektwerk.

With the projektwerk release on August 23th, 2011 not only the social media features and the vCard download where implemented. Another new feature is the search function for your own profiles and projects. By creating the search function we specially thought of our project providers who post several projects every day and who often saved more than one hundred projects in their accounts. The desire for a feature like this is definitely comprehensible. The annoying, manual eye-searching is now finally over. Now you can easily enter a word and all of your projects or profiles will be scanned. In doing so, not only the titles where scanned but also the entered skills and the description text.

Please notice: The Search is only working in the logged area and only in your own entered projects or profiles. You can still not search in the unlogged are in “all projects” or “all profiles”. This means: If you want to use this function, you will have to be a registered member of projektwerk. Here is a link to sign up.

As a premium member on projektwerk, you now benefit from a new feature. To save contact details from interesting freelancers or project providers fast and easy, you can now simply click the vCard symbol. After the download, the details will be automatically saved in your email program. For Windows users, these programs can be Microsoft Office Outlook or Thunderbird, for example, and the address book for Mac users.

That means you have access to these contacts at any time and you will save time because the typewriting and copying are eliminated.

The download option can always be found next to the contact details:

We have just updated projektwerk. Among other new features, some very practical social media functions have gone live, e.g. the new social media buttons. Now you can easily recommend interesting profiles and projects to your friends and colleges at twitter, google+ and facebook by one click.

You can find the Buttons on all profiles and projects on projektwerk. Shortly, the buttons will be placed in your personal matching-list, too.

Additionally new: The projektwerk twitter stream! You can find it on all projektwerk homepages (LINK) and on your individual welcome page after the login. There you can read the latest tweets from your projektwerk platform.
projektwerk wishes you a lot of fun by sharing!

An experienced freelancer collects a lot of knowledge in multiple fields. Thus, it might happen that a freelancer can attribute himself to more than one of the projektwerk branches (IT, consulting, creative, engineering, medical and fashion).

Typical examples are the IT-consultants. On the one hand, they advise their customers, on the other hand they are experienced in numerous programming languages. You can find analogical examples in every branch. This also goes for the project providers. They often represent big companies who need experts from different branches.

To guarantee the best results, we can only recommend you to become a member on all project platforms that suit you and publish your freelancer profile on each of them, or – as a project provider – find matching freelancers for your project.

We offer all those who want to become premium members on multiple projektwerk branches the projektwerk multi-account. With the multi-account, you can save more than 40%. For the first platform you pay 100% of the membership fee. For the second, you will get a discount of 50%, and almost 75% reduction for every further platform!

Example: J. Doe is a consultant for website design. He is registered on three projektwerk platforms and pays the following fees for 3 month of premium membership: Creative 105€, Consulting 52.50€ and IT 26.25€. So, he only pays 183.75€ instead of 315€.

You feel at home in more than one projektwerk branch? Register on your favoured platforms now and write us an email . Just tell us which platforms you have decided on and we will create an individual promotional code for you.

You can use projektwerk in German or English. The language is automatically selected by your browser language. If your browser language is German, projektwerk is displayed in German. Have you chosen English or any other language, the website will be displayed in English.

Of course it depends on your browser how to choose a language. You will usually find the language setting via extras -> settings -> languages. Just choose your preferred language for the display of websites.