{"id":317,"date":"2010-07-14T10:29:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T14:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/?p=317"},"modified":"2010-07-14T10:30:47","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T14:30:47","slug":"trying_out_quora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/2010\/07\/14\/trying_out_quora\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying Out Quora, a Social Q&#038;A Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past day, I&#8217;ve been trying out Quora, a social Q&amp;A service, to see what it&#8217;s like to answer questions, pose questions, and vote on other people&#8217;s answers. There are a few other librarians already there on the service. I hope to write a longer post soon on social Q&amp;A services and how they might work for library reference services. In the meanwhile, here are some links to the world of Q&amp;A services:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quora.com\/\">Quora<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quora.com\/Stephen-Francoeur\">My profile page on Quora<\/a> (you can see what questions I&#8217;ve posed and what ones I&#8217;ve answered)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ask.metafilter.com\/\">Ask MetaFilter<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/user\/54563\">My profile page on Ask MetaFilter<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/answers.yahoo.com\/\">Yahoo! Answers<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/answers.yahoo.com\/my\/profile;_ylt=Aj5hbHqPQWeTP7.FqvhyWifsy6IX;_ylv=3?show=jz4coyoGaa&amp;preview=true\">My profile page on Yahoo! Answers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/answerboards.wetpaint.com\/page\/Slam+the+Boards!\">Slam the Boards!<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Radford, Marie L. &#8220;&#8216;\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcPredatory Reference\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 an Interview with Bill Pardue about \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcSlam the Boards.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Second Slam Coming Up on October 10, 2007!&#8221; <em>Library Garden<\/em>, 7 October 2007. <a href=\"http:\/\/librarygarden.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/preditory-reference-interview-with-bill.html\">Web<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past day, I&#8217;ve been trying out Quora, a social Q&amp;A service, to see what it&#8217;s like to answer questions, pose questions, and vote on other people&#8217;s answers. There are a few other librarians already there on the service. I hope to write a longer post soon on social Q&amp;A services and how they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-qa-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}