Questionland Boise is live!

The latest city to join Questionland is Boise. The Boise Weekly, some of the nicest and coolest people have launched: You Ask. Boise Answers. So go ahead and ask.

You can also ask questions in Seattle at The Stranger and Portland at The Portland Mercury. We’ll be announcing new cities as they join… and remember there can be only ONE (Questionland is limited to 1 per city and um… you won’t get that reference unless you know the film. Do you?).

Release 10-27-09 (Moderation and more…)

NEW MODERATION FEATURES

• Moderation Threshhold: Now moderators can set a threshhold for reported posts and will be emailed when a post is reported over the threshhold (default is 3 times). You can also set “Auto-Reject” to have posts automatically rejected and removed from the site when they’re reported over the threshhold.
• Improved Reported Posts List: Way better display of posts that have been reported. Rejected posts can be filtered out and posts are only displayed once with info on each time they were reported (date and by whom).

OTHER

• Added # of Answers to Questions RSS feed (c/o Marc Briggs at Serra Media)
• New OAuth API Functions:
  • User ID: Retrieve the YouSaidIt User ID with:
    http://yourdomain.yousaidit.com/oauth/user.json?id=YOURID
    http://yourdomain.yousaidit.com/oauth/user.xml?id=YOURID
  • Logout: Clear a YouSaidIt session with:
    http://yourdomain.yousaidit.com/oauth/logout?return_url=http://yourdomain.com/your/usual/logout/url

McGinn enjoys Electionland

McGinn was having a great time answering questions at The Stranger. The campaign staff tweeted a picture of him at the time saying he was having fun. Both he and Mallahan spent an hour answering questions directly posed by and ranked by The Stranger community.

You can check out their answers or ask questions in the upcoming races…

This is an important vote, so get involved and know who you want to get elected and why. If you’re mot aware of the issues – I wasn’t – just go read some of the questions.

Electionland at The Boise Weekly

Check out Electionland at the Boise Weekly.

 

Release 10-15-2009

NEW ADMINISTRATOR FEATURES

• New Cookie-based identity integration. Allows single sign-on integration with Foundation CMS systems and other web services.
• Keyword search on Users and Posts lists.
• More information displayed on users list and user page.
• Easy switching between sites when administrating multiple Q&A’s.

OTHER

• Corporate YouSaidIt website redesign. Check it out at http://yousaidit.com
• Add category description to category nav hover text and main category pages.
• Answer link under answered questions now display first 3 answerers.

The Town Hall you can watch while drinking a beer.

Dominic Holden wrote a great decription of Electionland at The Stranger. They are covering 9 races/initiatives and have virtually all the candidates participating. You ask the questions, they answer them. No media in the middle. So it’s not just watching, you can participate in a Town Hall while drinking a beer. I personally had a great time at the last one – The Housing Levy. I knew little about it at the start and had some pretty simple questions about raising property taxes. By the end I had a real sense of what the pros and cons are and what the impact will be. Very cool.

Electionland in full swing at The Stranger!

Go ask a question of you’re local politicians. They’ll be answering soon!

Consumer Break Up

This is a fun one and all too true. Sorry if you’ve seen it before. (Thanks to Josh Dirks for pointing it out – follow him, read his blog, and get ready for his new venture).

Itsy Bitys Spiders: Everything I need to know about social media I learned in kindergarten

Excerpts from a presentation for an upcoming social media event:

Itsy Bitsy Spiders: Everything I need to know about social media I learned in Kindergarten.
A simple but powerful perspective on social media which shows how it is different from other online tasks like SEO or website design and content. It is NOT about the BIG spider (Google) but all the itsy bitsy spiders that weave their own small webs and catch only the tastiest stuff. What makes social media interesting is not real-time search, but selective, passive content delivery. All we have to do is remember show-and-tell from kindergarten. Find the good stuff, tell your class about it.

If you’d like to vote for this presentation you can do so at this Facebook Poll. Voting is only open until Monday, and since it’s a Facebook app that problem means you should start now. Thanks for your help.

2 Manifestos: From Martin Luther To Cluetrain

500 Years of Social Media

Summary of a presentation at a social media event:

A 5 minute journey from Martin Luther and his 95 theses that resulted in Protestantism (1517); to the Cluetrain Manifesto and their 95 theses that defined modern social media (1999).

Martin Luther demanded that the Catholic Church stop selling religion and Cluetrain demanded that companies stop selling their message. The story of two manifestos with the same message: stop trying to profit from being an intermediary and be honest.

The presenters will be chosen by voting on a Facebook poll. If you’d like to vote for it you can do so here.  It will take a little patience because it is a Facebook app and therefore [insert acceptably uncensored word here]. Thanks for taking the trouble.