GoHuman Blog

I love a good play on words.

GoHuman.com’s primary tagline is “change the way your world works”, highlighting our mission at an individual and a collective level.

In today’s blog I’m at it again, referring back to yesterday, where I quoted a respected investment newsletter using its own play on words about there being more labor than jobs.

We can change that. We can fix it.

As our leaders work to deal with the impact of the recent financial train wreck, we at GoHuman.com are launching a site we believe will empower you to help correct the problem from the bottom up.

GoHuman.com provides a fast, free way for you to find work that needs doing, and do it, or to hire someone to help you get something done that you need help with. And it does this efficiently and inexpensively, making projects large or small economically feasible. Many of the costs that do not contribute to the actual value of the service performed are removed from the equation. This can create more opportunity for valuable work to get done, kick-starting the micro economies we all participate in at the local level.

With lower marketing and advertising costs, for example, gohuman.com can connect you quickly and efficiently to the actual task that needs doing, making it easier for someone else to pay you a wage, or fee, in accordance with the time, materials and craftsmanship it will take you to perform the service, in a win/win arrangement.

This is but one of the ways in which gohuman.com can get America working again. As we grow our userbase in each local community the impact to the overall economy will increase – one job at a time.

So get vocal about local. Help us spread the word, and let’s get America working again.

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Labor Sunday, we’re giving away one Flip video camera each week from Labor Day to Halloween. Enter by signing up at GoHuman.com and creating a posting for a service you provide or need in your community and/or giving or receiving an endorsement. The more you do on the site, the greater your chances of winning each week. We hope to see the winners use their cameras to create videos telling the world about their favorite local businesses in our Million Dollar Video Contest.

Visit http://GoHuman.com/launch on Labor Day for information on how to enter.

Money and Markets features “The unbiased market commentary you won’t get from Wall Street”. The truth is, in the human sphere there is no such thing as a lack of bias. This is why the “Free Market” is a myth. The markets are guided, if not controlled, by powerful parties and biases. But I like the newsletter from moneyandmarkets because they do give you clear opinions of great value that you won’t get elsewhere. That’s why I subscribe to Martin D. Weiss’ newsletter. And the title of this blog is the headline of today’s featured article by Mike Larson. It’s definitely worth a read.

And, you can do something about it, even if you’re not in a position to take investment positions. All you need to do is click on share to spread the blog about our launch contest on Labor Day. GoHuman.com provides a means to get our economy moving again – by connecting real people with real people who have what each other needs, and get them busy working with each other in the local community, from within a Marketplace that is both integrated and sustainable.

This is different from the large, global institutions designed to aggregate value at the top, to be siphoned off by a few, while disenfranchising those at the bottom. Every so often this unbalanced, unsustainable approach, fueled by outsized greed and lust for power, results in an implosion. Sometimes such implosions result in the extinction of a species.

Think of the dinosaurs – and the T. Rex with monstrous jaws and tiny, useless arms. They devour, but they can not create value. Some of us are more like the Lemmings, who reproduce so quickly they create unsustainable communities that plummet to near extinction, or produce the famous cliff-jumping scenes.

The unbiased truth about this Labor Day is that there’s no lack of work that needs done – but today’s structures and systems are not sustainable, so companies are not opening up new positions. There are lots of openings in the GoHuman.com marketplace. Hang out your shingle and get to work

We hope you’ll join us – you CAN change the way your world works. Click share and help us spread the word!

They’re not yet extinct

I’m going to be in Los Angeles right before our Labor Day Launch (actually I’m splitting Labor Day between our two largest launch markets – L.A. and Chicago).

Please join me for an informal lunch in Culver City to celebrate this momentous occasion and kick-off our Flip for Your Community Contest. I’d love to meet as many GoHuman.com friends as possible. No need to RSVP, feel free to come as you are. Here is the info:

Friday, September 4, at 12PM Noon
Industry Cafe And Jazz
6039 Washington Blvd
Culver City, CA 90232-7425
(310) 202-6633‎

See you there!
Andy

Gmail users were left without email for an hour on Tuesday, which some might say doesn’t bode well for Google’s bid to sell enterprise-level cloud computing services. But instead of fumbling and obfuscating, Google simply let everyone know what happened.

It only gets harder to be this transparent and honest the bigger you get. At least that’s what most companies would have you believe. But Google proves that people respond better to companies who go the extra mile to make it right than those who don’t. This is a philosophy we embrace and nurture within GoHuman.com, so I applaud Google’s efforts to maintain their culture.

Right in time for our Million Dollar Video Contest, YouTube has added a feature that allows any popular video to become monetized with the creator’s permission. The ad revenues are shared between the video creator and YouTube, which is a great idea. GoHuman.com offers generous referral bonuses for those who help build our community.

IT and knowledge workers have long benefited from tele-commuting. But as we’re seeing in the medical world and other areas, more and more jobs will be done remotely in the future. GoHuman.com is designed to support local independent businesses, but we will evolve with the world to provide services to distance workers providing local services. That’s the power and beauty of the Web. When appropriate, removing people’s commutes is a good thing as it reduces stress on people and the environment. But we need to be careful about isolating ourselves too much through technology. GoHuman.com enables people to connect through the Web to do work in the “real world.”