OutVoice Named a WordPress VIP Technology Partner

We are proud to welcome OutVoice as a new Technology Partner! 

OutVoice joins our growing group of partners with proven excellence implementing solutions for enterprise marketers and publishers using WordPress at scale. They integrate freelance payments directly into WordPress to save content publishers time and headaches while managing their freelance teams.

OutVoice was a mission before it was a company. Co-founder Matt Saincome was previously a writer, editor, and publisher who had experienced the pain of freelance payments first hand. After looking for a solution for his own publication, The Hard Times, he couldn’t find anything that fit his needs. He did find his cofounder Issa Diao, though. The two began building the business and have since saved content teams over 100 years’ worth of time they would have otherwise spent handling invoices and waiting for checks to arrive.

OutVoice allows publishers to pay freelance content creators inside WordPress with the same click of a button that publishes their work. The plugin automatically generates, pays, and tracks invoices for tax season via its connected central platform on OutVoice.com. It also features easy onboarding, team management, recurring payments, print media invoices, and non-content related freelance payments. It’s benefits have spread via word of mouth and is used by Foreign Policy, Adweek, Inked, Clickhole, Vonage, Brooklyn Vegan, and many others.

Becoming a WordPress partner is another great step in our journey to eliminating invoicing headaches from all of publishing. People need to know there is no longer a reason for invoicing to be a pain. OutVoice is as exciting for freelancers as it is for publishers. Everyone wins when bad processes are replaced.”

— Matt Saincome, co-founder and CEO, OutVoice

Learn more about OutVoice’s partnership

oDesk Reports “WordPress” Fastest Growing In-Demand Skill in 2008

Thanks to Becca for sending in word that oDesk, “an online staffing marketplace and management platform”, reported the other day on the fastest growing set of skills that are in demand on the oDesk platform.  Based on job/project listings WordPress came out on top with a 427% increase since last year :

The numbers in the table below show the number of job postings on oDesk in which the skills were listed as “required,” and their relative increase from the end of 2007 to the end of 2008. You will notice some variance in the numbers between the table and the charts below as the numbers on the charts show keyword mentions in the job post titles, not required skills.

Skill/Experience	Openings Last 60 Days 2007	Openings Last 60 Days 2008	Change
WordPress	37	195	427.0%
Writing*	32	138	331.3%
Excel*	30	118	293.3%
SEO	73	250	242.5%
XHTML	24	61	154.2%
Linux	23	58	152.2%
Drupal	70	169	141.4%
Joomla	157	352	124.2%
CSS	119	250	110.1%
Graphic Design*	20	42	110.0%

*Because writing, graphic design, and excel have small starting points, we believe their change reflects oDesk growth, not a general trend.

The growth in WordPress demand on oDesk has been steady throughout 2008:

If you are looking for WordPress help on projects, in addition to the resources we’ve listed here, oDesk is a great place to check-out as it currently has over 2700 WordPress developers listed in their system.

[ Visit oDesk blog ]