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Introduction to ‘Questions & Answers’ Feature as a Knowledge Network

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Product Team
on July 31, 2008
in Business, Freelance, Freelancing, Innovation, Knowledge Networking, LimeExchange, Person to Person Outsourcing, Product Update, SMB, Service Providers, Small and Medium Business, Technology and outsourcing
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Imagine asking questions like, “How should I begin freelancing as a Graphic Designer?”, “How would you measure the Usability of web applications?” or “What is so special about 3G iphone? Is it a case of more hype than substance?”

QnA, Q&A, Questions, Answers

Even though an answer might be quite evident to you, there is great value in exploring the problem and possible solutions from people in different geographies, mindsets and situation…… Colleagues and trusted networks are the best ones to reach out in case of doubts, but readily accessible expert opinion and advice always helps save time and money.

SolutionWe, at LimeExchange have been working hard to create a knowledge-networking platform and now provide a Questions and Answers forum for all our users to ask questions and discuss openly in a forum. Here enthusiasts can ASK questions and get tips from Entrepreneurs and SMB’s on how they have achieved their success. The paid “Questions & Answers” feature at LimeExchange provides experts yet another opportunity to monetize their skills.

As discussed in our blog Online Services Marketplace - Further Considerations #2, at the time of starting or executing a business; a professional trying to keep abreast with rapid technology comes across many questions. Being an Online Services Marketplace open communication channels and knowledge networking tools are of utmost importance to ensure business success of our users. We have tried to simulate the same here, where all our users can now pose questions to a community of global technology experts, subject matter specialists and utilize the ‘Wisdom of a Crowd’.

So take a quick tour of our help section to understand how ‘Questions & Answers’ works: Q&A Help and check out some early questions perhaps waiting for your expert response.

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Online Services Marketplace - Further Considerations #2

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Product Team
on July 14, 2008
in Business, Freelance, Freelancing, Innovation, Knowledge Networking, LimeExchange, Person to Person Outsourcing, Product Update, SMB, Service Providers, Small and Medium Business, Technology and outsourcing
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Question & Answer, Ask, QuestionThe vision of LimeExchange is of building a focussed Knowledge Sharing & a Business Networking platform. Our vision has made us realize that for business proliferation, a greater need exists for sharing of knowledge via dedicated medium. Internet penetration has provided real time access to information and knowledge sharing, but with the amount of information getting published, figuring out forums, which share your passion and relate to your business need and has become more pertinent.

This is where a platform needs to adapt and solve to the process of Information problem solving:

  • Recognizing that an information need exists and to define that need.
  • Find the right information medium
  • Evaluating the information
  • Using and Communicating the Information

In a Knowledge for Business environment, having Information at hand as sharing of Tips, Experiences from global entrepreneurs, testimonies from subject matter experts would definitely provide valuable first hand knowledge to make an informed decision.

So, What if there was a dedicated forum to provide feedback and share global experiences, from mission critical queries on Whether setting up a captive in China was better than Outsourcing To whether choosing and Open Source Technology is better Vs a Proprietary technology for a particular business application? & What if you were able to get Industry experts to provide early market feedback or opinion-ate on your soon to be launched product, services, strategy, campaign etc, getting realtime advice should only help hone and adapt better to prevalent market needs.

Is there a need for such a medium or is Internet already crowded with such forums and now the need is for a secondary classification of information? Is this going beyond Knowledge Sharing and becoming a Knowledge Networking medium?

As James Surowiecki amply stated in his book ‘Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations’, a focussed community would benefit immensely from active participation of its users to effectively utilize the Wisdom of Crowds and provide a natural medium for access to On Demand information.

What would set a platform apart would be Information in Context and solving the Information problem process. The information need will always exist, the key is to provide a platform as the medium for context and a platform providing credibility of the Information giver as Subject Matter Expert, to easily evaluate and consume the information. This would be a natural extension of a Socio-Business networking platform to provide avenues to all its users to freely exchange thoughts, ideas & knowledge and create a Focussed Knowledge Networking platform.

We encourage all our readers and users alike to actively suggest and participate with feedback on what would be best suited for solving this challenge. We dedicate ourselves to create LimeExchange as the platform of choice for its users driven by its users.