Peter Buckley attempted to hire some virtual assistants from ODesk. They were way too slow. My guess would be that EAs have a much better sense of what types of groups to look for and where to find them. The task also requires a decent amount of research, which is a comparative advantage of many EAs.
Would love to get tons of VAs on this though if you can think of a better way to use them.
Have you tried hiring a temp and an Oxford student and putting them in the same room and seeing who can get the most good entries each day—checking a sample of 15 or something at the end of each day—for some kind of reward?
Why not (also) just take some of that earn-to-give money and hire some virtual assistants to plow through this?
Peter Buckley attempted to hire some virtual assistants from ODesk. They were way too slow. My guess would be that EAs have a much better sense of what types of groups to look for and where to find them. The task also requires a decent amount of research, which is a comparative advantage of many EAs.
Would love to get tons of VAs on this though if you can think of a better way to use them.
Have you tried hiring a temp and an Oxford student and putting them in the same room and seeing who can get the most good entries each day—checking a sample of 15 or something at the end of each day—for some kind of reward?