Quick Release 11-19-09

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Questionland Experts Launches

The Stranger has launched Questionland Experts. It’s a place where the community can ask experts questions – you get answers from the professionals.

The Q&A is topical and relevant, and what could be more relevant than Thanksgiving – the starting topic. You get to ask local chefs how to solve your problems, or get ideas for new side dishes, or alternatives to turkey, or doing something healthy. Avoid that dry turkey this thanksgiving, or try something new. Have fun.

Release 11/12/09

• Email Notifications to Featured Contributors: Featured Contributors will receive email notifications of all questions asked in their category. This is essential in YouSaidIt’s expert Q&A sites where featured contributors are sometimes the only people allowed to answer questions. The sooner they know about the questions the sooner they’ll get answered.
• Change Username for Facebook accounts: Now you can change your YouSaidIt username when logging in with your Facebook account. Some people don’t want to use their real name on certain Q&A sites.
• Add users to multiple sites (Admin only): Now admins can add users to new sites that already exist in other sites. This only applies to accounts that have multiple sites with a shared user-base.

Q&A is big and profitable.

ReadWriteWeb posted about the success of Answers.com today. They are growing rapidly and profitable which is great, but where is it all coming from? WikiAnswers is the answer.

On a separate note PaidContent posted about Sharecare, a health Q&A launching with some great expert content from Dr. Oz and a team he is assembling.

Q&A is big business. But RWW raises an important issue: How good is the content? At these mega sites it may be questionable (pun intended). We think that the content will be better when Q&A is integrated into site content and their communities.

UGC is gradually moving in the direction of Social Content which is far more relevant and valuable. That’s why we provide Social Q&A for communities with expert content.