Our Competitors in Portfolios and Networking:

Our Competitors in Portfolios and Networking:

We have researched into whats already out there and if its needed:

Behance Network (www.behance.net)

Carbonmade (www.carbonmade.com)

Shown'd (www.shownd.com)

Coroflot (www.coroflot.com)

Professional on the Web (www.professionalontheweb.com)

Deviantart (www.deviantart.com)

design:related (www.designrelated.com)

Portfolio's Friend (www.portfoliosfriend.com)

The Portfolio network (www.theportfolionetwork.com)

Sunoasis (www.sunoasis.com)

Creative Cin (www.creative-cin.co.uk)

Portfolio Workshop (www.portfolioworkshop.com)

Foliotek (www.foliotek.com)

Linkedin (linkedin.co.uk)

MY Hammer (myhammer.co.uk)

Big Black Bag (bigblackbag.com)

Basekit (Basekit.com)

Folio Focus (foliofocus.com)

With all of these websites and companies looked at providing very similar services, we have gathered information of their strengths and weaknesses to try and get the best out of our service. The following applies to the strengths.

· Showcase online of peoples work

· Links everyone together

· Anyone can view the portfolios

· Jobs can be advertised

· Can be translated into a few languages

· Sign up for free.

· Can comment on services done by the person and put recommendations on.

· Jobs can be quoted for jobs.

· Can be linked and followed on Face book and twitter.

· Free e-newsletter for non members too

· Holds a clear creative directory for people to advertise jobs they want done

· Jobs can be searched through location and company and job type

· Hold special networking events

· User friendly set up.

· Accessible on the Iphone.

· When registering allows user to identify themselves as a person just looking for a job, just an employer and both.

· Very easy registering process

· The personal account page is very clearly laid out and easy on the eyes- nice light colours.

· There is a specialist section on the portfolio site, this is useful to employees as they can search by specialty with regards to software.

· Good layout and easy to navigate

Things to which we may want to avoid…

· Cluttered website – too much at once

· Have a big upload space as a limited upload space, may not be enough.

· Make clear who’s portfolio is being viewed and ensure that it cannot be changed from people on the outside.

· Not having the browsing easy to navigate, as getting to and from the homepage should be easy to use.

· Make sure the portfolios “look” are not all the same and unique.