Twixperts lets you either ask or become a subject expert, both for free. So we are immediately not sure where the revenue model comes in, if one will exist. But you do sign in with oAuth and away you go.
As a person posing the question you simply enter it and choose a category. Now I did not see anyway to add additional categories, which is nice in one respect. People couldn’t randomly make up categories and have questions flying all over. However, I did not see a way to request or find additional ones either. Once you ask, simply sit back and wait for an expert.
As an expert, you need to follow one of the category “bots” on Twitter to get the questions in your stream. You then reply to the bot and it takes care of the rest. I think. I couldnt find the names of the bots either in the time I was on the site.
One of the problems was the lack of help in the flow of how it all works. They did have a help page, but some more description on how you know one was answered, or even better when it was answered, was not there. So threading and conversation type viewing would be nice. It shows who asked the question, with their avatar, and how long ago. But then nothing more to follow along.
There was some decent questions being asked that I was interested in seeing the answer to. But I could not track that part down. Just the questions themselves.
In all the site UI is clean and pleasing. The flow needs some work. Categories need some expansion and people need to be in there as experts!
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Professional bio: , known as IdoNotes across the web is based in St Louis, MO as the Director of Messaging & Collaboration for Connectria and the Founder of Spiked Studio Productions.. Connectria is one of the largest IBM hosting and remote management partners. Chris speaks globally at conferences and events including: View Admin 2003-2009 View Admin Europe 2003-2008 Domino 7 Upgrade Seminar (globally) Domino 8 Upgrade Seminar (globally) Real-Time Collaboration Seminar Lotusphere 2003-2012 ILUG 2008, 2010 ULUG 2009, 2011, 2012 Collaboration University 2006-2010Domino Optimization Tour 2010 BLUG 2011, 2012 NLLUG 2010 AusLUG 2011, 2012 Other awards, events and information: Founder of
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Sametime Guide - a video training tutorial on installing and administrating IBM Sametime
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