ThemBid.com

Ask and You Shall Receive

While we develop ThemBid.com there are many cases where we need advice on matters that we don’t have experience. In addition to asking our circle of mentors and conducting research at the bookstore, library and online we have found that there are several social networking question/answer sites that can quickly provide you quality information. We have listed a few here and we would like to know your experiences with them and any others you may have found useful.

1. LinkedIn.com
   1. Here you can find high quality answers from various professionals who have an incentive to make a good answer since it appears on their profile and lends to their credibility.
2. Yahoo Answers
   1. You may not get the best quality here, but its voting mechanism is useful in determining the most correct answer.
3. YCombinator.com
   1. This is similar to Reddit.com but it appears as though the questions are more directed towards business and hacking.
4. Digg.com
   1. You may ask, but you may not receive. Also, make sure you have thick skin as some of the comments… well you’ll see.
5. Reddit.com
   1. Same as with Digg.com.
6. Netscape.com
   1. Similar to Digg.com and Reddit.com but seems to be a more general audience.
7. Google Groups
   1. You can generally find very specific communities here that are willing to help.
8. Answers.com (the wiki)
   1. Good variety here.
9. Ask Slashdot
   1. Choose the Ask Slashdot section. This is generally geared more toward tech questions.
10. Amazon’s Askville
    1. I just found out about this one… Thanks David.