Blogs Launched

Tonight was a big night for TechLore! In just over 4 months from our launch date, we are already on our fourth release of our custom-built community platform.
Several new features were released tonight on the website - The TechLore Blogs and subscriptions/notifications being the biggest of the bunch.

With the Blogs, accessible on the blog main menu, we hope to give you insight into the minds of several of our community experts. These bloggers will start appearing and blogging over the next days and weeks. We hope that you are enlightened by what they have to say and provide them with feedback through our discussion mechanism.

This TechLore Team blog in particular will give you an inside track into the inner workings of TechLore and the community itself.

Welcome to TechLore! What do you think?

I was frustrated. I could not for the life of me figure out how to connect by new Media Center PC to my TV. I had nowhere to turn. The PC manufacturer pointed me to the Video Card manufacturer which in turn pointed me towards the TV manufacturer. Nothing on the web that I could find could even help me.

How is the Content on TechLore Organized?

Background

In building this community, one of the most difficult decisions we encountered was the organization of content. There are several axes of information around which we could organize, but settled on the following:

Consumer electronics product category (MP3 player, Digital Camera, etc.)
Type of article (Knowledge, Experience, Opinion)
Order in which article was submitted
Usefulness of the article

The Community Approach

If you are like us, you already have a bunch of questions about gadgets that you already own or about products you expect to purchase in the next few months. There are three ways that we have found in order to get the answers that you are looking for:

Go it Alone - through exploration, experimentation, and trial-and-error, you can always learn the hard way. Sometimes it pays off to spend the time to investigate it yourself but in many cases, this is the longest and hardest road.