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<td><small><font face="Verdana">Announcing O'Reilly Answers - A
useful site that's, well, a different kind of animal</font></small></td>
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<td><small><font face="Verdana">Marsee Henon
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<h3>Announcing O'Reilly Answers
A useful site that's, well, a different kind of animal</h3>
<p
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href="http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zm3p95pjnf4o3usqu5qau4q9sho9ke2tgm6edi3g">O'Reilly
Answers</a>, and I'm inviting you to be part of it. In brief, O'Reilly
Answers is a community site for sharing knowledge, asking questions,
and providing answers that brings together our customers, authors,
editors, conference speakers, and Foo (Friends of O'Reilly).</p>
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style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><strong>Why
Answers, and why now?</strong><br>
O'Reilly is at the center of an amazing exchange of knowledge sharing
and idea generation. We've created the usual means of facilitating
communication between customers, O'Reilly folks, and the outside
experts we call "alpha geeks" who contribute to O'Reilly books,
conferences, and websites. We can connect through reader reviews,
errata submissions, book forums, blog comments, Get Satisfaction, our
customer service department, and more. But too much of this
conversation is siloed, and not enough is public (e.g., discussions on
our internal mailing list for editors, or personal responses to
customer questions). O'Reilly Answers will be the place where much of
that communication happens from this point forward.</p>
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participate?</strong><br>
The lofty reason: Like O'Reilly, you want to "change the world by
spreading the knowledge of innovators." That's our mission, and we've
been fortunate enough to build a community of passionate, committed
people who love to learn and share their knowledge as they work towards
a better world for us all.</p>
<p
style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The
"nice, but what's in it for me" reasons: reputation, recognition, and
rewards.</p>
<p
style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><strong>Get
Recognized:</strong> "Find interesting people" is a core activity at
O'Reilly, and an important component of our success. We see Answers as
an important way to discover and connect with our next authors, online
instructors, videographers, and speakers.</p>
<p
style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><strong>Build
Your Reputation:</strong> You've learned a lot, why not get credit for
all that knowledge? As your submissions to Answers are voted up, your
personal reputation on the site increases. At launch, your reputation
will be based solely on your participation in O'Reilly Answers. Soon,
we're expanding across oreilly.com, so the book errata and book reviews
you've submitted, books you've registered, and conferences you've
attended, will add reputation points. You'll also earn <a
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<p
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Rewards:</strong> Glory is great, but discounts and deals are nice,
too. We want to reward your contributions to the O'Reilly community.
Shortly we'll have a point-based system in place that you can redeem
for books, training, courses, and conferences. Details soon, but in the
meantime, any actions you take now will count towards your total
points.
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style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><strong>This
is just v.1:</strong>
The best part of any project on the web is watching it take on a life
of its own. With that in mind, we're looking forward to *your*
suggestions about where O'Reilly Answers should go, what features
should be added, and what benefits and rewards we can offer all of you.</p>
<p
style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">I'd
like to acknowledge the projects that have proceeded Answers and
inspired us, such as SitePoint Forums (we distribute their books),
StackOverflow, Yahoo! Answers, Knol, and many others. They're great
resources, and we think the O'Reilly community can create a useful site
that's, well, a different kind of animal.</p>
<p
style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">One
last thing: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zqt3o9iehn32nmk9om6vt42o5hi8aaf083c4ls48">O'Reilly
Answers</a> is in beta and you may encounter bugs. We're still working
on many improvements to the site, such as feeds for each tag, but would
love to hear your suggestions for features and improvements. Please
send any suggestions/questions/bug reports to <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:answers@oreilly.com">answers@oreilly.com</a>.</p>
<p
style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Until
next time--<br>
Marsee Henon</p>
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