Seems there are more and more incarnations of social reference these days. In my definition of the term, not sure if it IS a term, but to me, it must always include that it is free.Here are some Types of Social Reference:
- Global Reference Services like Question Point, Ask Now etc. are available free through many local libraries’ both public and academic. The link on the library’s website is the portal to online reference
- Instant Message Chat (Yahoo, Google, AIM, etc using Meebo and Meebo widgets) ‘Ubiquitious’ was waiting for chat to give it new meaning, yeah? Found on their own desktop however your users set up their accounts
- Knowledge Markets– Surfing Librarians that haunt community hubs like Yahoo! Answers, WikiAnswers, Answers.com, Live QnA etc. The good thing is that more librarians are offering answers where people are asking them. Things in this venue have switched. Librarians are looking up the questions.
Additional Resources here Wikipedia
as opposed to information mines like local regional global Knowlege bases, organized archives of document sharing like bitzi. which I don’t recommendIf you care to add more via a comment, that would be great.
Sure! I’d like to add FunAdvice. It’s a great Q&A site that has tons of categories plus profiles, photos, photo rating, and widgets
Hi!
Thanks Dara, I went through the FunAdvice site. A lot is similar to the others, though the dating line-up at top is a bit in your face.
Otherwise, I checked out the Education area where my background may be of help. http://www.funadvice.com/interests/education. I found some stuff there that I may hang around for, yeah?
Otherwise, I’m just giving up my opinion of the best lip gloss, or DVD of the year sorta thing. You know?