Adding comments to your blog or article suddenly changes the one-way world of publishing into an interactive two-way communication. Very cool. But sometimes your readers just want to be able to ask you a question either because they need help on a topic or because they want to get to know you a little better.
We’ve made this possible by letting your readers “interview” you through our Ask Me Anything application. You can see it and try on this blog. The link is on the right. Just click YOU – Ask Me Anything and you can see other questions I was asked and then ask your own.
Note: You can reject question you don’t want to answer.
Categories: Ask the expert
The New York Times provides a great example of the use of online Q&A with their staff in their Talk to the Newsroom section. Readers are given the opportunity to ask a given staff member questions over a period of a few days and the staff member answers the questions as they come in (more or less).
It’s a good example of Newpapers/website editors interacting directly with their readership which in turn furthers the goal of transparency. The New York Times continues to try out new things and can be more cutting edge than many of their more recent web-only competition.
Have you seen other examples of this? Let me know in the comments.
Categories: Ask the expert
