Questions for OKDorkers:

#1 – What can be done to make people more likely to sign up with a tutor given that most visitors to eduFire have never done online tutoring before?

#2 – What can be done to make the site appear more credible?

#3 – What can we offer someone to try their first session without breaking the bank?

If we use one of your suggestions you’ll receive a free one-hour tutoring session with one of our tutors (worth up to $60).

Product:
10Things.tv is a website that makes it easy to learn other languages using short video clips. You can watch hot girls and guys tell you “Ten Things to Say at a Market in Spain” or “Ten Things in Spanish when on the Vegas Strip” (who doesn’t like speaking Spanish in Vegas?! ).

Problem:
We’re looking to find a lot of people who are interested in learning languages. The site only has Spanish videos now but will ultimately feature a large number of languages. We want to find people who aren’t necessarily looking to become fluent but would love to have some phrases to say while traveling.

Questions for you:

1) How do we quickly and cost-effectively (the site is totally free) reach a large number of people who are learning foreign languages?

2) What else can we do to make 10Things.tv more fun and useful?

Looking forward to your comments and suggestions. Big shout-out to Noah for allowing me to do this.

This post was written by Jon Bischke of Education Revolution.

The Resume App on Facebook lets you import your LinkedIn resume and recommendations to your Facebook resume. For the non-LinkedIn crowd, it also lets you upload your resume in Word format and converts it to html.

Problem:

The app only has 1000 users. Network effects make this exponentially more useful with more users. However, it’s starting to get attention from the press. 2 reporters contacted me for their stories about professionals starting to use Facebook over LinkedIn for their business networking

Questions for you:

1) How do we make this app more viral?

2) Is privacy a concern?

When viewing resumes by network, you can’t actually view the resume unless you add the person as a friend. Should we make all resumes transparent to anyone? Or should we let the user decide on the privacy level? (ie – Only let my friends see my resume; OR let my networks and friends see my resume; OR let anyone see my resume)

3) Should we have a point system?

You’d get points for posting your resume, writing recommendations, or inviting friends. Points let you view more resumes.

Any thoughts, feedback, ideas, suggestions, criticism? Thank you Noah for lending me your blog, and giving me initial feedback when the app launched a couple weeks ago. This post was written by Joe Suh of MyChurch.org.

Noah was nice enough to let me, Scott Hurff, post something here about what I’ve been doing — plus, I love you all and would love to get that grouporation action going.

Last time I was here, I was running Groupvine full-time. I’ve since sold it and started Fuego.

So what is it?

Fuego offers bite-sized, actionable, high-quality content for classy guys intended to make a lasting impression and offer a quick return. It’s meant to be like a “trusted friend,” identifying trends, stuff you should know and all that while having a good time.

I’m a guy and I like cool things. I like classy things, too, and I’m sick of having to wade through the GQs / Esquires / Men’s Healths of the world and pick out the parts I like while skipping all the parts that talk about mid-life crises. I’m 23. I have a full, long, healthy, exciting life ahead of me. Don’t freak me out early, y’know?

Here’s my goal: to build a lifestyle brand. I want Fuego to be an indispensable source of content — but I want to practice what it preaches by offering some elements of what it recommends. That means a cigar label, wine labels, vacations, cruises, workshops, high-end apparel, maybe even a club/lounge/bar or something.

Here’s my challenge: how would YOU build this brand? Some subpoints to drive your thinking:

• Where do you start?
• Who do you reach out to?
• What areas do you seek to become an “expert?”
• Who do you hold up as experts?
• How do you evolve over time (outside content to self-generated content, etc.)
• Do you stay with guys or do the same for women?

For the person who has the best recommendation, I’ll send you a copy of Founders at Work, one of the most amazing books on startupping there is!

I love you all.

The site already has some interesting timelines about history, biographies, and more. Here are some examples:

Timeline of facebook.com
http://www.xtimeline.com/business/Timeline-of-Facebook-com

History of Video Games
http://www.xtimeline.com/entertainment/The-History-of-Video-Games

Life of Britney Spears
http://xtimeline.com/biography/The-Life-of-Britney-Spears

Problem: Content is a crucial aspect of the site — what’s the best way to generate it?

Question for you: A) How would you create a group editing system? What are the best collaborative editing systems that you know of? B) What timelines would you like to see?

This is a group collaboration = Grouporation. Please leave a comment and help if you want your site, product or service to be reviewed in the future.

Question for you: How should they do marketing to grow their site? Who should they market to?

Prize: I will buy you a book of your choice from Amazon.com for the best comment.

Disclaimer: Doug the founder is one of my mentors and hired me at Facebook.

The game is simple: Join the site and Invite your friends, Create a league and draft your team of celebrities, Score points when celebrities on your team are in the news.

At the very least, you get to talk trash with your friends, make bets about who’s going to win or lose, keep up with the latest celebrity gossip, and let the competitive streak in you out while you’re sitting at your computer.

Problem: We need to continue to spread our brand and get people in leagues. People in leagues typically return to the site every day, which drive our growth and traffic. Our demographic is 80% female (18-44) and 20% male (yes, guys really enjoy the game too).

Question for you: How would you spread this brand? Would you use a widget? Secure a partnership with someone? Create a group on Facebook? We have a unique product here, what can we do that will make some heads turn?

Prize: Best comment will get a free VIP league for them and 12 of their friends…and of course a hug from Noah and the founders.

P.S. – You can see how Noah is doing in the Okdork league we started.

BuildV1: Connecting entrepreneurs with the right info and the right people

For the last few months we’ve been working on a major overhaul. We shifted the focus to help entrepreneurs find great info first and connect second. The idea is that great content will help build an audience and create a context to meet and learn from other
entrepreneurs (the community adds and votes on links, similar to digg).

Problem: We just re-launched BuildV1 and we need help getting the word out to the right people.

Question for you: How would you spread the word about BuildV1? We have limited time and resources, how could we best spend our time and resources?

Prize: Best comment can still get a Community Next t-shirt:)

Grouporation = Group + Collaboration | Please leave a comment and help if you want your site, product or service to be reviewed in the future.

Problem: We’ve got a core set of users who’ve adopted it early on, but
we want to break past the super-techy early adopter set, and reach the
more mainstream twitter users. Second issue, how do we improve this,
make it reach beyond just twitter?

Fast Facts: 3,000 users have installed it, 950,000 minutes have been
logged in the sidebar (probably hitting a million by the time you read
this), and we’ve gotten a ton of positive feedback.

Open Q: So what I am looking for help from you is how you think we
should spread this even more? Virally? Contests? Blog more? We want to
hit 5,000 or 10,000 users and we want to do it fast.

Prize: $25 iTunes gift certificate to best comment.

Grouporation = Group + Collaboration |
Please leave a comment and help if you want your site, product or service to be reviewed in the future.

Problem: Not enough people know about Blogsigs. I really love the product and is super helpful in getting more people reading your blog without any work.

Question for you: How can we get more people to use Blogsigs and get it spreading like chlamydia?

Prize: Best 3 comments get Community Next t-shirts. Yes, I have way too many of them left over=)

Please leave a comment and help if you want your site, product or service to be reviewed in the future.