Category: Quora

Curation, Facebook, Journalism, Medium, Quora, Social Media Tools, What’s New in Social Media

July 2, 2013

Time has come to change how we read

Google Reader is dead. Long live reading. If you are from the real world and happened upon posts from any-and-every tech blog, you wouldn’t be mistaken in assuming that today marks the demise of the written word, now that Google’s offed Google Reader. But as Joe Coscarelli of New York Magazine, notes, most people don’t know Google Reader from…
Public Relations, Quora

May 21, 2013

Quora’s Big Problem

I haven’t been on Quora in a long time. I used to be there every single day, so much that many Quora users’ feed was filled just with stuff I curated. But that was months ago. Slowly but surely as Liz Gannes from AllThingsD suggests in an interview with co-founder Adam D’Angelo, “it can be…
Branch, Knowledge Networks, Linkedin, Medium, Quora

December 29, 2012

Quora’s Vision, Competition

Quora’s Adam D’Angelo penned an interesting year-end post where he articulates Quora’s mission better than they’ve ever done before. As a huge fan of the site, I’m glad to see Quora returning to its roots. Quora’s mission is to share and grow the world’s knowledge. Much of Adam’s thoughts reminded me of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s The…
Google+, Quora

July 10, 2011

Why Google will always remain Spock. Never Kirk.

The past few days have witnessed a barrage of non-stop Google Plus nonsense, with marketers vying with one another to carve out their territory on Google+ with the fond hope that it’ll be the next Twitter. In the meanwhile, I’ve not had one meaningful conversation on the platform with nearly 721 followers and I don’t…
Quora

January 23, 2011

Rumors of Quora’s death are greatly exaggerated

I’ve already blogged about Quora and would recommend you try out the service to help you come to your own conclusion. Also, I’ve responded to a similar thread on Quora. Please up-vote if you dig the answer. In the meanwhile, thought I’d help debunk some of the assumptions that Vivek Wadhwa makes about Quora without…
In the News, Quora

January 16, 2011

In the News: Why Quora? Why Now?

Another month passes, and here are a couple more leading publications – Mashable and Ragan – who quoted some of my thoughts on social media, both of which came about through my participation on Quora. So, if you’re serious about building your expertise online and sharing that with the rest of the world. Start sharing…
Best-of, Quora

January 10, 2011

5 Stages of Quora adoption for Professionals

Update: Aliza Sherman (Web Worker Daily) has a similar post on using Quora at work. Must-read. Quora seems to be blowing up since the beginning of 2011, but it’s still early-stage enough to benefit you as a professional since you now have the attention of a small group of professionals with expertise in your area…