Last week, I received a review invitation from Wei Tat, the co-founder of Soskod.com. We always happily to share the new source of freelance jobs with the community. Here is our review:-

Freelancing has become a great boom to many individuals who has the zeal and capacity to go along with this fast-paced mode of independent occupation. The Internet has also become a real powerhouse to back this freelancing flourish and as such many freelancing web portal has stepped on the scene till now. Soskod.com is a recent addition in this ongoing trend.

It’s a Malaysian based online freelance portal dedicated to all kinds of IT related freelancing jobs opportunities such as Programming, Software, Framework and API, Multimedia, Technical Writing etc. Besides all these you can find other non-IT areas of freelancing such as Accounting, Legal Advice, Quality Assurance, Advertising, Surveying, Data Management, Copywriting, Blogging, Proof Reading, Translation etc.

Though the design and the colour scheme of the web portal is not so attractive at the first look, but content-wise the portal is very deep. Moreover, there is no chance of scamming, as there is no service fee associated to either post jobs or become a member as a freelancer.

However, Soskod.com will not guarantee the quality of service as it claims just to be a platform between the client and the service provider. If the client and the service-provider (the freelancer) are happy, Soskod.com urges them to help spread the name all around. Signing up requires a valid email address and in fact the member gets a free copy of an eBook called “PC protection Guide”.

The FAQ section is generally quite detailed and contains all the major customer queries. It has a mini news section that includes all the latest churn-outs regarding online marketing and freelance issues.

The portal has partnered with different other freelance sites such as Webbies Resources, Career Site Links, Free PHP Scripts to name a few. If any member of Client breaches the terms of uses the account, their account will be deleted. Moreover, all the other partners of Soskod.com will be informed about the particulars of the perpetrator’s account.

Though the Web portal is a recent annexation and yet to take off for the league of big players in the field of freelancing work providers. As a partially competitor for them, AsiaPartTime wish them all the best and have a success in this freelance industry.

This post is summarized from the Ten Great Technical Writing Tips. Photo by Dr. Goldschmidt.

Technical writing is generally defined as the practice of writing that mostly concerns with technical artifacts such as Software or some Electronic products. This task requires the writer to have a profound knowledge of the inner working of the product itself. Even if he may not be directly related to the development of the product, he must hold a very good knowledge about the product and how it works. These people are known as knowledge workers and has a high reputed stature in the organization they have the complicity.

This article will discuss some tips which can be handy in enhancing this class of technology oriented writing.

Be Focus

Be focus on the final aim of the documentation. As you may get too much deep into the explaining the system and thus the readers become clueless after awhile. So stay on the aim of the documentation and explain with comments and other side-notes. 

Be Simple

When you explain try to keep it as simple as possible and elaborate for the sake of the user, cause users are not the system’s expert, and they reply on you to make them understand. 

Comparative

Draw up table in order to compare different groups of data, this visual way will make the points clearer. Put graphical representations also if needed. 

Proof-Reading

Proof-reading is a must. It is actually quite embarrassing to submit a copy that is full of spelling and grammatical glitches. 

Solid Reference

Provide appropriate sources and notes. Also it is better to append few pages exclusively listing the references on the subject matter.

Feel free to browse through the technical writing jobs offered in our job board.