MarketConnector: Marketconnector Business Community

2009-04-27

Social network for New England businesses built in PHP on Social Engine.

It pains me enough, at almost 35, to see athletes my age retiring. So it was a shock to the system to have a client more than a decade my junior. Ben Collins is a business student at UNH studying to be an entrepreneur; this site is his head-start on the competition. Ben already had a business plan, a site design he created and a solid set of technology requirements. I worked with Ben to flesh out the requirements of the four sections he wanted and how to integrate them into the software package he’d chosen, Social Engine.

The site allows users to find jobs, post jobs, buy and sell items and get quotes for works from businesses in their local area. Set up as a social network, users can find trusted resources by getting recommendations in any of these categories from people they know.