Asking Questions Online

Jessamyn West
librarian.net/talks/oregon

Handouts & Files

• Asking Questions Slides - PDF , Keynote format, PowerPoint format

Links

• MetaFilter & Ask MetaFilter
• MetaFilter InfoDump (explanation), InfoDumpster & wiki analysis & a really nerdy analysis
• MeFi Corpus and iamkimiam's MePhiD project
• My profile on MetaFilter
• My AskMe answers and a different view showing Best Answers
• Other Q&A sites
• AskMe question removal guidelines.
• Greasemonkey mark librarian contributions script
• Over 1000 book and reading suggestions
• MetaFilter Infographic from 2010 & MetaFilter statistics by Andy Baio & MetaFilter User Survey
• Internet People - keyboard cat & we like the moon
• Other good examples on the Library Success Wiki and "13 Ways (and 147 Tools) to Help Your Library Save Money on Technology"
• Questions used as examples
  • How do I keep my bangs from clumping?
  • Flying in a small plane
  • Colored bodies question
  • Fat love conundrum
  • Tracking down an address in 1939 Vienna