Request Professional Feedback & Coaching via Google Buzz

Coworkers.com now makes it easy for you to share your feedback requests via Google Buzz (in addition to Twitter & LinkedIn). Our Get Feedback tool helps you quickly configure a request for feedback regarding: your work performance, a document or deliverable, an event or milestone, or even just ask a simple question. With one click, you can share that request any way you want - via email, URL, Twitter, LinkedIn, and now Google Buzz!

To Buzz your request:

• Choose "Get Feedback" from the "Feedback" drop-down menu on the site
• In the "Ask Via..." options, make sure "Web..." is checked
• Finish setting up your request, and you'll be presented with one-click links that let you share your request via Google Buzz & other services (see screen capture below)

Happy buzzing

Feature Update: Feedback Template Library

We've made it even easier to browse, preview, edit, create, and share Review and Feedback templates. You'll find a number of predesign templates covering everything from in-depth 360 degree work performance reviews to simple forms for getting feedback on a meeting or presentation.

Our users can create their own templates by either modifying an existing one, or building one from scratch. If a user decides to, they can share their custom templates so that they appear in our ever-growing library. As always, our templates fall into the three major categories of:

1. Work Performance
2. Event/Milestone
3. Document/Deliverable

Visit our Template Library today!

Get Valuable Input, on Autopilot: Schedule Feedback Requests

Have a weekly meeting that you manage or attend? How about a monthly or quarterly milestone? Do you wish you could setup an annual or quarterly review request today, that will go out on a future date?

Coworkers.com PRO users can now Schedule Feedback Requests. This is a helpful way to get into the habit of collecting ongoing comments and ratings from your colleagues. Simply use our Get Feedback wizard and include the optional scheduling information. Set it up once and you can:

• Schedule a one time request to go out on a future date
• Schedule a recurring request to go out: daily, weekly or monthly
• As always, the feedback you receive can be private, and people do NOT need to be Coworkers.com members to respond to your requests

Find out more about Scheduled Requests and other great features included in our Professional Account.

Feature Update: Share Any Feedback You Receive

Privately & Selectively Share Any Feedback
with an Individual or Group of Contacts

One of the key strengths of Coworkers.com is that it allows you to send, receive and manage both Public and Private feedback. Public feedback is usually provided in the form of testimonials or ratings that are visible to all the people who visit your public profile page. Private feedback, on the other hand, is input that you receive from others that can only be seen by you.

In speaking with users, we realize that sometimes you will receive Private feedback that you wish to share with a select person, or group of people. That's why we are happy to announce that we've added robust Sharing controls to Coworkers.com.

Want to share received feedback with your boss, a recruiter, or colleague, etc.?

• Simply go to "My Feedback"
  
• View a particular entry
• At the bottom you will now see a new Sharing box that allows you to share with: a Group of contacts; and existing contact; or anyone with an email address - the people you share with will not be required to have a Coworkers.com account.

Feature Update: Network Activity, see what your colleagues are up to

Coworkers.com is pleased to announce a new addition to your personal dashboard. It's an information stream called Network Activity. Now, in addition to seeing activities directly related to your own account, you can get a quick overview of updates related to your Coworkers.com contacts.

Login (or Signup) today and check it out!

Link to Feeback Requests with Custom Buttons

When you request feedback using Coworkers.com, you have many options for distributing that request:

• Email your request to one or more people
• Link to it via simple URL - which can be pasted into email or social network etc.
  
• Embed a Graphic Button with link on a web page or blog (shown below)
  
• Instantly "tweet" your request on Twitter

Below is a screen capture showing the various Graphic Buttons we offer. Give it a try today, request feedback!

Performance Review Software For the Rest of Us

Are you still emailing around Office documents, or (gasp!) using paper forms, to facilitate periodic performance reviews?

If you have been wary of moving to a costly or cumbersome enterprise-level performance management software solution, you'll be pleased to see how Coworkers.com can make review management flexible and affordable.

• Use our template builder to easily create & save web-based versions of your existing internal review and feedback forms
• Leverage our growing library of existing review templates - use them as-is, or modify to suit you needs
  
• Your entire company or distributed work-group can choose to adopt Coworkers.com as your platform for ongoing reviews and feedback - at the fraction of cost of traditional enterprise packages
• Our privacy controls allow users to request and respond to reviews within a closed loop, or share with others if desired
• Our service is web-based and secure, so you can be up and running quickly
  

Take advantage of Coworkers.com templates and other features today...

Data-Driven Feedback: Analytics For The Work You Do

With our unique analytical capabilities, you can get immediate, quantifiable and chart-able feedback on a report, presentation, campaign, or other work event or milestone, gaining an assessment of your effectiveness while building a comprehensive dossier of career accomplishments and marketable skills.

As you accumulate feedback (both private, and shared), you will be able to quickly visualize and identify aspects of your work that need improvement.


Our basic account has 8 distinctive chart types:

• Breakdown By Feedback Type
• Breakdown By Attribution
• Visibility (private vs. public)
• Score Distribution
• Overall Performance Over Time
• Category Performance Over Time (work performance, document, event, etc.)
• Breakdown By Subject Type, Visibility
• Breakdown By Group (grouped by respondents the user categorizes)

Gain greater insight into your career.
Get started with Coworkers.com Analytics today...

Private or Public Feedback?Using both to learn and share.

With Coworkers.com, you can proactively send work evaluation (aka Feedback) requests to colleagues on an ad hoc basis. A key feature of our feedback tool, is that it allows you to manage both Private and Public feedback. Managing everything from critical input on your work, to praise from your peers - in one central place - allows you to gain greater insight into your work.

Here's an explanation of each type, and why/when you might choose one over the other.

Private Feedback

Private feedback is ideal for situations where you are looking to get an extra edge in the workplace by learning where your strengths and weaknesses lie, and monitoring your performance with actionable metrics.

The recipients of your feedback request will know that your request is private, and you can also choose to have it be anonymous as well. These assurances, that the feedback is just between you and the respondent, will generally lead to more honest input.

Users typically send out private feedback request for things like:

• Overall work performance on a periodic basis
• Feedback on a recent meeting or presentation
• Iterative or final input on a proposal or other document

Create a request for Private Feedback

Public Feedback

Public feedback is ideal for those looking to promote themselves by validating their skills and sharing recommendations.

The recipients of your feedback request will know that you wish to share their responses publicly. This will generally lead to testimonials, from your colleagues, that are appropriate for use in promoting yourself.

Users typically send out public feedback request for things like:

• Recommendation for internal promotion, or job search
• Validation of a job well done on an event or milestone
• Praise for a document or other work product

Create a request for Public Feedback

See Who's Using Coworkers.com

Coworkers.com gives professionals at any level, those in transition, consultants, and small businesses, the tools to instantly create a personal dashboard to manage their work, analyze their performance, gain feedback on overall performance and get reaction to specific deliverables, events, and job milestones.

Motivated Individuals:
Job Seekers, Movers and Shakers, Learn more...


Smart Workgroups:
Consultants, SMB's, Virtual Teams, Learn more...


Innovative Enterprises:
Managers Who Think Outside the Box, Learn more...


Modern Talent Management:
Recruiters & Human Resources, Learn more...

How to "Tweet" (or otherwise link to) Your Requests for Feedback

Have you ever wanted an easier, more organized way to gather feedback from your online & social networking contacts?

We've recently made improvements to our Feedback wizard so that you can quickly share your requests via shortened link on: Twitter, Facebook, or any other online source such as a website, blog, email newsletter, etc.



Simply step through our "Get Feedback" Wizard and choose the option that gives you a custom shortened URL for sharing online. After you make this choice, you will see the options shown above, including a handy link that will populate your Twitter status with one click.

The screen cap above illustrates a request for input on a speech. You can choose to get feedback on a wide variety of topics among our three high level categories of: Work Performance, Event or Milestone, and Document or Deliverable. Use a pre-designed template or craft your own questionnaire. Now, go Tweet your way to better work!

Tools to Manage Your Reviews & Feedback for Greater Insight

As part of our ongoing efforts to ease and improve the management of reviews and feedback that you send and receive via Coworkers.com, we've recently made some enhancements to the "My Reviews & Feedback" tools.



The icons in the first column make it easier to quickly see the attributes of a given review...



In addition to these helpful cues, the ratings column is now colored to reinforce the overall rating (green = 10-7, yellow = 6-4, red = 3-1).

Login to see your Reviews & Feedback, or Signup for free to get started. Keep your eyes out for additional management and analytics features coming soon!

New Demo Video: Getting Feedback with Coworkers.com

In this short demo, we illustrate a scenario in which the goal is to request feedback, from colleagues, about a recent meeting with an important client. Give it a look-see!

Looking for Feedback on _?Yeah, There's a Review Template for That...

Whether you are looking to receive or send feedback, we offer an ever-expanding set of templates (some that we've developed, as well as ones created by our user community). If you can't find the perfect questionnaire, you can either modify an existing template or create your own feedback form using our easy template builder.

Templates are broken into three main categories, as seen below:



How's you work?

Feature Update: Your Feeback Dashboard

We're happy to announce a new feature. Coworkers.com users can now access a revamped personalized homepage when they login.

This is your central point for tracking:

• Quick links to account settings
• Public profile summary
• Feedback alerts
  
• Other recent activity
• Suggested next steps
  
• Other useful tools & shortcuts

Login or signup for free, and gain greater insight into your professional development.

Feedback, Any Way You Want It:A Closer Look at Review Templates:

Different circumstances, often call for different types of input. Therefore, our goal is to make it easy for you to give and receive the right feedback, in the right format.

One of our recent site upgrades added the ability to control exactly what appears on the Review Forms that you use to collect and share feedback. We achieve this with "Review Templates".

Review Templates are essentially questionnaires that can contain any mix of interactive form elements, such as rating sliders, free text, single and multiple choice questions, date selectors, validated numbers, etc.



Coworkers.com offer great flexibility, you can:

• Use pre-designed templates: Get going right away with one of the Coworkers.com Best Practices templates; or select one of the many user-designed templates in our growing library.
• Customize existing templates: If one of the above pre-designed templates isn't quite perfect, you can customize it as you see fit, and save it for future use.
  
• Create and save your own templates from scratch: Perhaps the form you are looking for isn't in our template library at all. You can quickly create a custom one using our form building wizard. Save it for your own future use, and optionally share it with others by adding it to our template library.
  

No matter what kind of feedback you are looking to get or give, Coworkers.com has you covered. Click here to start using Review Templates!