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Many people have been asking about the concept of the Knowledge bucket and the content association in eZdia. The concept is not clear to many people.We need to make people walk through the concept but it is a time consuming exercise to tell the whole story to anyone from the beginning.  So I thought up to put up my thoughts in a article.

eZdia the different from other freelancing websites odesk, dice, guru or elance. In all of the freelancing wesites, except ezdia a project is first posted by someone who needs some work get done. The bidders bid on these projects. The person who posts the project either chooses lowest bidder or uses a combination of rating, bid amount and the credentials to select the right bidder. One issue with these freelancing websites is that there is no way for the person who has posted the project to know the complete background of the person who is bidding. The expertise of the person bidding is not visible.

eZdia has a way to solve this problem. It starts with what LinkedIn has today. An expert creates a profile. This process is similar to LinkedIn. But ezdia goes beyond that. Every day, you read some good online article, that reflects your area of expertise. What you do here is, you associate that article with your profile. By associating yourself with that content of the article you are declaring your expertise in that area.

Practically to do that you click on the Knowledge Bucket on the top right corner after loging-in in eZdia. You then click on the “Add new entry to Knowledge Bucket”. This takes you to a screen where you enter the url of the article that reflects your expertise. When you submit this, the content gets associated with your expertise.

So what is the use of this ? A good question that many novice eZdian keep asking me. I will give you an example – suppose you have an expertise in Action Scripts. You acquired this expertise only recently and is yet not mentioned in your profile. A quick way to make your expertise available to those searching for Action Scripts experts, is, to associate a content corresponding to Action Script.

Now, when someone searches for “Action Scripts” in ezdia, he is able to find you. It increases the chance that you get a freelancing job in the area of your expertise represented by the content you associated.

Next time you log in to ezdia make sure that you learn how to associate a content in your knowledge bucket.

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Many people use eZdia to form a partnership or to get a job or to get a freelancing work. It works very good because it is website of professionals and experts and getting connected is very useful especially for businesses and for getting part time or freelancing work.

However ezdia is under-utilized by many people,  so I am giving you a top five list of ways you can utilise eZdia.

1. Make yourself Visible.

You should add as many connections as possible. You should also get known to others and comment and comminicate with them. If you find something good about their profile send him a comment or a message. By connecting to more people, you are more likely to secure a freelancing work. There is a likelyhood that people will look for someone in their connection to get their work done.

2. Improve your connectability.

Most new users put very little about their present and past company in their profile.  The less details you include the less likely you are able to connect to other people. You should fill out your profile as an expert. You should include details of the technologies you have worked on including all the keywords that represent you.

You can also include a link to your profile as part of an email signature. The added benefit is that the link enables people to see all your credentials, which would be awkward if not downright strange, as an attachment.

3.  Improve your Searcheability in eZdia

eZdia allows you to be searcheable using its own patented search engine. To increase the ability to be searched, make sure that you write your profile in detail. Use the Knowledge bucket feature of eZdia to connect yourself to the urls that best represents your expertise. You should also strengthen the visibility of your ezdia profile page in search engines by using your profile link in various places. Use your ezdia profile link when when you comment in a blog. Include a link to your profile in the forums you join. Set the ezdia profile link in your signature.

4. Take help from Ezdia Expert

Use eZdia to ask questions to experts. Many experts will be able to answer your question for free if it does not take too much of their time. Do not expect the eZdia expert to do a complete research for you for free. Note that you will have to see which relevant expert is available online who can help you.

As an example, here are some questions you can aks a eZdia expert

* What is the use of knowledge bucket at ezdia ?
* Which of the technologies – JAVA or PHP should I use for my banking software
* Can you suggest me how to increase the page rank of a restaurant website.

5. Find relevant person to get your job done

Use eZdia’s patented search engine fo find people with educational and work experience that will best solve the problem that you have in hand. As an example you have a large project that requires small Action Script in your website. Your present programmer can do that, but, will take too much of time to learn it. Use eZdia to search for an Action Script Expert and take his help for a small money. In the long run he will save you much more than what you will be paying to your own programmer.

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