By “Doing Good” we mean Charity. Let’s face it- almost everybody would like to give more of their time or money to help others, but most of us are already stretched pretty thin. How does one give time without sacrificing days or weeks on end- days that could be spent with family and friends? How […]

Earlier this week we commented extensively on MavenScore in an effort to help you better understand what MavenScore is and how it is calculated. Now we’ll take a deeper look at some of the key elements of MavenScore and provide some tips on how you can improve your MavenScore. Be aware that there are some

Earlier this year, we deployed our proprietary Member rating system, known as MavenScore. As you have probably noticed if you are a Maven Member or Maven Client, every Member of our network receives a MavenScore the moment they join, and the score fluctuates over time as the Member participates in the Maven service. We get

Editor’s Note: This is the first in an ongoing series of posts meant to address questions we frequently receive from Mavens. If you have a question about Maven, send it to us and we will either respond directly to you or include your question in a future blog posting. Maven Members often ask us how

Have you visited your “Invite and Earn” tab in your Maven profile recently? At Maven, we recognize that our best resource for growth is our own Members, so we provide you with the opportunity to earn Referral Commissions for inviting other great people to join the network. We say this a lot, but it bears

Imagine you are a Maven Client searching for someone to help you understand an obscure topic- ski lifts, for example. You are trying to learn more about a new ski lift design, and hope to speak with someone who has evaluated the design for a ski resort. You search the Maven network and find several

Last week we gave you 5 Tips for a Perfect Professional Bio. As a follow-up we thought we’d give you a concrete example of the difference between a well-written Maven Knowledge Summary that follows the guidelines we provided and one that does not. Consider the following Maven: This Maven is a Senior Vice-President in the

Here at Maven we get to see a lot of professional bios. Some are great and some are… well… not so great. So how do you make your bio “perfect”? There is no absolute formula or methodology, but here are 5 quick tips that you should follow when writing or editing your Maven bio: 1)