Hi Sunayna,
Thanks for the compliment and yes you are right a very large part of the credit goes to the very knowledgeable contributors on the site.
This is mainly done through a few marketing campaigns now. Initially I made some members join by posting on yahoo groups and the like [I found them inconvenient with all the s p a m emails]
:icon1: Glad to know that. Though its not an official announcement but I am trying to figure out a way to provide email accounts from the website. Though we need thousands of more members to be able to afford such development.
As you know I have *not* studied human resource but I am rather gifted with research assignments and web development. I work for a software design firm and handle the HR issues [also] in our small company. CiteHR started when I was given a research assignment to find alternatives to balanced scorecard and a parallel research on some human resource software. I was interested and started this website as a place where I could learn human resource [couldn't afford to go for an mba... not because of money but just a general fear of educational institutes :icon2:] soon I realized that there was no way people are going to join and help out some of the new members [as often I was incapable or did not have the time to do the research and post answers to queries] unless I give them something in return. So I decided to let them promote their consultancy services in return of their contribution in helping other members. One thing led to another and I ended up spending a lot of time on the development of CiteHR, search engine optimization and the marketing of the website.
Well, these days I don't get the time to post answers to queries. Most of the time devoted to CiteHR goes into general moderation / administration of the website / checking marketing campaigns / answering emails from members who have problems. Most of the answering is done by some of the elite members on the board [as you may have noticed], who are much more capable of helping people out with human resource matters as they have first hand experience.
Yes, I do sleep at night, I'm usually in bed by twelve or my girl friend would kill me over the phone. But I have spent quite a few sleepless nights working on the website [as I have a day job]
Hope I've answered all the questions :icon1:
Warm regards,
CHR