While I was reading the tragic news on bullying on ask.fm, it occurred to me that the site might be used as a virtual enquiry desk - for healthy communication with library users. It certainly has all the necessary basic functionality:
- optional registration (questions can be posted very quickly, without a prolonged registration and login)
- immediate notification of the posted question by email (currently the notification emails from ask.fm don't reach my college email boxes; I have raised the question with my IT colleagues)
- RSS output (a widget can be created to display the questions and answers on the library webpage)
- a widget - a bit too inflexible to my mind, but very easy to use - for embedding the query box anywhere on the internet.
I imagine, this may be handy for teaching too: learners can post their questions and comments; the tutor then will respond to them or ignore as appropriate.
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