The document discusses the rise of social freelancing as an alternative to traditional recruitment agencies and classified ads. It notes that job postings on online freelancing sites like Elance and Odesk have increased by 35-105% in the past year, while classified ad sales in newspapers have dropped 43.6%. The document lists several popular sites for social freelancing and notes that freelancing opportunities now exist for more than just technical skills, in industries across the board. It encourages readers that through these sites, they can find work by leveraging skills that others need worldwide.

2. C.V. Recruitment

3. Agency in the Middle theprogramminglemming

4. Like Dating Agencies

5. The Agency matches Employer with Employee

6. Classifieds The other way

7. Death of Classifieds

8. massmailsoftware Fixed difficult problems

9. recruitment classified sales dropping 43.6% to $497.5 million Newspaper Association of America 2 nd Quarter 2008

10. Long Tail of Ripples

11. Solved the problem of finding

12. No agencies Person to Person

13. Job Offered

14. Social Freelance

16. Major Influence in Ripples

17. 1 2 3 4 5 Freelancers

18. Guru.com Admin

19. Social Network Marketing Consultant

20. 1 2 3 4 5 Employers

22. All Industries – not just geek!

23. Just Do the Fun Stuff! You have skills that someone needs somewhere in the world.

24. Translators

25. Major Influence in Ripples

27. Widget Sales

28. Long Tail of Ripples

29. Widget Sales

30. Who pays what to whom