Buyer Voice: How to Hire a Graphic Designer

We needed some design help for a couple projects that we knew would be short and simple for someone familiar with Photoshop and had a graphical eye, and turned to oDesk for help. Through our experiences, we wanted to give buyers some advice on how to find a graphic designer to help improve a website, [...]

Top 10 iPhone Development Blogs

The demand for iPhone developers on oDesk has only increased over the past year. If you are currently developing for the iPhone and looking for some more resources to keep your skills sharp, or you’re wanting to get started developing, the links below should be helpful.

The Mobile Orchard – Top notch tutorials, news and a [...]

The Top 5 Most Ridiculously Over-the-Top Uses for Excel

If you think you’re the office “excel ninja” with your fancy vlookups and your pivot table prowess; thing again powderpuff. These guys will smack you all the way back to Lotus 1-2-3 with their skills.

The Future of Work

The oDesk team recently pulled together our thoughts on the ways business, technology and the working world intersect. The result of our brainstorm? The Future of Work: An educational presentation that explores how technology is changing how the world works.
The Future Of Work
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Check it out, share it, discuss it – [...]

Provider Voice: Bidding for Work – It’s Not About Price

Recently I’ve seen some tweets from those curious about the presence of extremely low bids on oDesk.
My response is that it doesn’t matter. Or at least, it shouldn’t.
Face it, if the only thing that makes you a viable canidate for a project is your price, then you’ll need to have the lowest bid. But is [...]