projektwerk relaunch

In the course of the relaunch of projektwerk, your account is being transferred from www.projektwerk.de to it.projektwerk.com and adapted to our newly developed matching technology.

Login, membership and data

Your user name will be the email adress you entered in your account on www.projektwerk.de while the previous user name is being deleted. Your password stays the same. In case you forgot your password, click here to create a new password. Your selected membership option, basic or premium, stays the same, too. In your ‘settings’ you will find your account data. Please check here, too, if it is up-to-date and complete.

Change of industry platform

As a first step, we transfer all accounts to it.projektwerk.com, including all data, invoices, pictures, attachments as well as projects and profiles. In case you wish to set up your account on another industry platform, creative, consulting, engineering or fashion, we have made a relocation service available to you on it.projektwerk.com. Your account will be transferred to your requested platform and deleted on it.projektwerk.com.
If you desire to use several industry platforms, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Projects and profiles

You will be able to see your existing projects and profiles migrated from www.projektwerk.de on your personalized homepage. Please check them and edit, if necessary. All keywords were generated automatically, so please check and modify them concerning your skills. By clicking the ‘edit’-button you can edit all parts of your project or profile and also add documents and a picture.

Notification about new projects and profiles

The daily notifications about projects and profiles have been optimized. You will now receive individual notifications about new matches that fit your projects and profiles. You can activate or deactivate this feature when editing your projects and profiles with the button ‘Daily notifications about new matches via email’.

Messages and applications

From now on there are no messages and application functions any more. projektwerk does not offer an internal mail system, so communication will take place directly through the channels you have chosen. You can contact other members directly via the prompted contact information. You can use the checkboxes in your ‘settings’ -> ‘contact information’ to choose which contact information shall be visible for other members. Interested freelancers will thus be able to get in contact with you directly.

Messages do not exist any more. Former applications with profile were represented by an ‘bookmark’ to the corresponding project. Former applications without profiles were transferred to a new profile with a ‘bookmark’ to the corresponding project.

Learn everything you need to know about the new functionality of projektwerk when taking our Tour.

More information about the projektwerk relaunch you will find on our Blog or in our FAQ.

We basically informed you about the main features and characteristics of the new homepage yesterday. Today, we would like to explain how to create a project or profile in order to optimally utilize the matching service.

Because projects and profiles merely differ in the kind of content they contain, we will describe how to set up a profile as an example.

1. Select: Profile or project
After logging in, you will be directed to your personal page. Choose “Create profile to offer your skills and find a project”.

2. Significant title
Give your profile a meaningful title, because this is one of the parameters used to calculate the matching results. Note: A significant title helps to attract attention and gives a first impression of your profile.

3. Keywords
List your skills as keywords first. You can name up to seven keywords including the level of your expertise ranging from basic to expert knowledge.

Like the title, the keywords are of special importance as they flow into the matching calculations. Therefore they should be chosen wisely.

4. Description
Describe your skills and work experience to give interested providers of projects an exact idea of your skills. The description will also be factored into the calculation of the matching results.

5. Location
Next you will be asked to name the location you would prefer to work at.

6. Period of publication
Appoint the period of publication to publish the profile for a defined period of time. If you do not choose an individual period of time, the profile will be published directly after saving it

In case you save the profile „as a draft“, it will be marked as „inactive“. Your profile will then only be visible to you. Nevertheless, suitable matches for your draft will be displayed. This way, you can get informed about potential project partners without your profile appearing on other users´ matching results.

7. Define visibility
Also, you can define the visibility of your profile. You can decide, whether your profile will be viewable only by other projektwerk members or if you wish to extend your visibility to the projektwerk home page and search engines.

8. Image and file upload
After saving the profile, you can upload a picture or other attachments – e.g. your CV.

Once you have submitted this information, suitable projects will instantly be advertised to you. As you login, newly added and updated matches are displayed.

Tomorrow, we would like to explain how the matching technology actually works.

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Read more about the upcoming relaunch:

Introduction Relaunch

Part 1: General Information

Part 2: The Homepage

Part 4: The Matching

Welcome to the first part of our four-part series on all the novelties on projektwerk you will run into as from September 2010.

Our focus was the development of a matching technology that would replace the long lists of search results and connect you with appropriate project partners even faster and more efficiently. Therefore, the new service is dedicated to the motto “Stop searching-just match!”. In addition to the new matching service, a new design provides for fun and ease of use.

Today we want to give you an insight into the fundamental changes that have taken place:

Industry extensions:

More and more industries rely on concepts that embrace project-related work in one form or another. projektwerk is experiencing a trend in which the number of projects and profiles that are not related to the IT sector is constantly increasing.
To meet this demand and create an environment that allows you to gain contacts pertaining to your specific industry and field of expertise, we recently launched new industry solutions for IT, consulting, creative, engineering and fashion.

You can find an overview of the various industries on www.projektwerk.com or via the drop-down menu of the individual industry pages.

If you wish to have access to projects and freelancers from different sectors, you can register on the relevant industry platforms with additional accounts.

Language selection

To meet the standard of an international freelance market, content on projektwerk will be available in both German and in English. The default language is dependent on your browser settings and can be adjusted manually.
Please visit our English corporate blog for interesting information and news on the various sectors at www.projektwerk.com/en/blog.

Membership

Basic and premium membership models remain unchanged, so that all existing memberships retain their validity.
The prices will also stay the same, however, we have extended the scope of functions available to you:
With a free basic account, you can either submit a project or a profile, view your matching results, and be contacted by freelancers and project providers.
The paid premium membership enables you to post an unlimited number of projects and profiles, use the matching service en detail, as well as proactively and directly contact other users.

Now it’s up to you:
Find out about your industry platform and set up your browser to utilize the desired language.
Tomorrow we will provide you with information about our simplified home page and its new content.

We would be happy to assist you with any questions or suggestions you may have!

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Read more about the upcoming relaunch:

Introduction Relaunch

Part 2: The Homepage

Part 3: Create a Project or Profile

Part 4: The Matching

Are you tired of skimming long lists of search results? Same here!

Fortunately projektwerk’s newly developed matching technology solves this inconvenience. Under the motto “stop searching – just match” our new service will be available to you in September 2010 and surely bring back the joy of finding suitable project partners: Once you have entered your profile or project, the service will automatically show appropriate matches in your overview.

What will change?

What does this mean in detail?

By using a descriptive title, proper keywords and a short concise description, the projektwerk matching technology is able to reliably calculate suitable project partners for you. By storing your entries, retyping search queries is no longer necessary, and you remain informed about new matches in realtime.

As project-related work is increasingly taking place across borders, projektwerk too has expanded its scope: Our service now makes it even easier to find and connect matching project partners – worldwide. Apart from IT, various other industries increasingly place emphasis on project-related work concepts. projektwerk’s industry solutions for IT, consulting, creative, engineering and fashion, enable you to gain valuable contacts in your field of expertise.

Find out all about the new features available on projektwerk later this week on the blog. Become acquainted with the improvements and visit our free webinars (in german). During the introductory phase we will be glad to assist you with any advice or support you may need.

Kind regards,

Your projektwerk-Team

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Read more about the upcoming relaunch:

Part 1: General Information

Part 2: The Homepage

Part 3: Create a Project or Profile

Part 4: The Matching