I 'Hired' A Virtual Personal Assistant To Do My Job

http://www.businessinsider.com/mobileworks-virtual-personal-assistants-2013-10

by prayag • 13 years ago

15 5 13 years ago

No better way for the journalist to show the value of the service than to have a MobileWorker write it for him. Good stuff.

badman_ting• 13 years ago

I think this says a lot more about Business Insider than MobileWorks.

abat• 13 years ago

If they're smart they're going to put their best people (and probably spend a lot more time than they bill) on an article that's going to get them press.

I like the concept of testing out the service, but I'd like to see what their typical results look like in comparison.

anandkulkarni• 13 years ago

Ha, that would've been sneaky! As it happens, I was pretty insistent that we stay out of the process, and that the experiment run naturally.

The reason was that I've seen this kind of thing go awry when the company interferes to try and make itself look good (ie: http://www.fastcompany.com/1773610/column-was-crowdsourced-s...). Our writing pool and management system is solid, so there was little to worry about.

The other reason that this worked well is that Dylan wrote from a set of notes that outlined the story he wanted to tell, rather than letting them write something totally from scratch.

toomuchtodo• 13 years ago

If on a Team or above pricing plan, is it possible to integrate with our Github private repo to have the work results returned to us? How are results of requests typically provided back to a customer?

Disclaimer: looking at signing up

I 'Hired' A Virtual Personal Assistant To Do My Job

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