By Riges Younan

It has been 3 short months since we went into beta and what a lot has happened since then!

• Lots of good media coverage, both “new” and traditional.
• Engagement with several recruitment agencies around Australia.
• Discussions have taken place with a number of organisations about using the tool for internal recruiting.
• Deployed several new releases, with significant new features coming in the new year, keep the feedback coming as we are always listening.
• We are getting right into social media
  • Follow us on Twitter along with JobGenie
  • YouTube
  • Facebook group & Fan Page
  • Slideshare account has been setup for presentations on social recruiting
  • Set up a Get Statisfaction forum to help with user support, collect feedback and solve issues
• We have also started working with two Melbourne consultants, Sjors Provoost and Michael Specht.

Sjors has joined the team in November and is working on new features that will make the whole referral process even easier and more powerful! The end result referrers will be able to make better referrals with a higher chance of earning rewards and employers will get better candidates faster. Sjors moved to Melbourne after finishing his studies in Physics and Sustainable Development. He has turned his attention to software engineering.

Finally Michael Specht is consulting with us to further develop and implement our social media strategy. You will see him on the blog, posting on Twitter, hanging out on Get Satisfaction and generally wherever 2Vouch an online presence. Michael is a well known blogger and consultant in the HR and Recruitment industries.

Look for some more major announcements in early 2009

We promise there won’t be this many posts every day, but hey, we are excited and it seems that there is a lot of interest in what we are doing

Thanks to Renai LeMay at Bootstrapper for this review.

As you can imagine, building a site like 2Vouch is not a trivial exercise. A lot of people have put in a lot of hard work and we just want to acknowledge them publicly and say a huge THANK YOU!

One of the great things has been the support and effort put in by our development team, designers and html/css guys. All nighters, lots of back & forth and very high expectations… again, thanks to all of you.

The other thing that has been exciting has been telling the 2Vouch story to our launch partners and having people take a leap of faith to support us before we even had a site live. This includes some of the leading charities in Australia, industry associations and of course advertisers - some of the most innovative, leading recruiting firms and businesses in the online space.

Our launch charity partners are:

• The Salvation Army
• Diabetes Victoria
• The Heart Foundation
• The Breast Cancer Network
• Sids & Kids

Referrers can automatically make donations to any of these charities when they process their referral rewards.

We have had great support from:

• The Australian Interactive Media Industry Association
• The Game Developers Association of Australia
• The Recruiting & Consulting Services Association
• JobAdder
• Pollenizer (Phil, Mick & Bruno)

And our launch clients

• S2M Digital
• Happener
• Online Recruiting
• Reactive
• eServices Interactive
• Tantalus Media

Finally, and certainly not least, to our friends and families who have heard us talk about this idea for ages… thank you for putting up with us.

Cheers,

Riges.

Thanks to those of you who have provided early feedback to us privately. We have had some really positive input and also a bunch of great ideas for making 2Vouch even better.

The other wonderful thing has been to read the comments and ideas that different bloggers have posted. Two more posts since yesterday are on Mashable and CareersThatDontSuck (love that domain )

There are now a couple of different places you can see the JobGenie in action.

We have a FaceBook page called “The JobGenie” and you can go to YouTube and do a search for 2Vouch or JobGenie and you will find the videos.

Enjoy