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Have A Skill, Or Need Some Work Done? Check Out SwapASkill.

Posted on | November 7, 2009 |

The tag line says it all:

Swap what you can give or can do for what you need with swapaskill.com

Swapaskill serves as a hub to connect people from all over the world - some looking for something, and others looking to provide something. Need your house decorated, and like to get rid of that second car you no longer need? Not a problem. Submit a posting or peruse the search results and find a match.

You can swap items, or skills or both.

The intent behind the site is to form a community of people who pay it forward, and help one another out. To that end, there’s no profit involved but there is a rating system of 5 stars. Each participant gets to rate the other’s involvement with a value of 1 (bad) to 5 (excellent) stars. The result is an online visual reputation that’s intuitively simple to understand.

The web site is very easy to use. The search feature even provides tips to help you form your queries. There’s a portion of the page dedicated to the top 30 skills in demand as well as being offered. It’s laid out like tags on a blog, so the text is weighted based on the amount in demand or being offered - i.e. skills that are in really hot demand are bolder and bigger than less popular skills.

A lot of members are in the UK, but it’s really limited only by what you want and what you can give. Obviously, decorating someone’s house in the UK in exchange for a used car isn’t going to work if you live in the US, but if you’re a graphic designer who’s looking for a web site, or a blogger looking for a writer, those geographic boundaries melt away.

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