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There are many employment-related hashtags you can be using when you post to twitter that may increase your audience. I'm sure there are some for working remotely as well. Beautiful site - nice work.
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I know ... another example of this: http://xkcd.com/927/ . The hope is that, eventually, this would be a place where we could aggregate the remote jobs featured at the various job boards (at least, the major ones: Authentic Jobs, GitHub, 37signals, Stack Overflow) in one place.
That's what http://jobmote.com/ does currently.
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pardon my ignorance, what is "patio11-style marketing engineers"?
patio11 is Patrick MacKenzie: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patio11 He's minorly famous for his essays on how engineers can be better at marketing. A lot of it is about, but not limited to, how to properly A/B test your product. A patio11-style would do some of the tasks mentioned here ( scroll down to paragraph that starts with "“What is it you do, exactly?” ): http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/12/29/bingo-card-cr…
I personally dislike the idea of (further) fragmenting things like job boards (or real estate listings, or travel fares, etc.) where breadth is critical. How is this better than a general-purpose job board with an option to filter by remote-friendliness? Unless people are willing to potentially miss out on listings that don't happen to be on this particular board, this is just one more addition to a long list of plac…
That's true in many ways and partly explains why Indeed.com (aggregation) is the largest source of online hires. The question of do 'niche job boards' have a future is interesting and I would argue yes (in the same way specialty stores still have a future).
There are many employment-related hashtags you can be using when you post to twitter that may increase your audience. I'm sure there are some for working remotely as well. Beautiful site - nice work.
Could you elaborate on this some for those of us that do not use twitter as much?
Adding a hashtag to a tweet can increase the number of people who see it. Here's a good overview of why and how to use hashtags:
http://www.hashtags.org/platforms/twitter/why-use-hashtags-g...
In this case, it appears that both #remote and #telecommute would be relevant hashtags to use.