Technical forums are places where you can sense that there’s a hope for humanity! No kidding. If you think about it, it’s a place where humans help each other out without expecting anything in return (in almost all cases), what I just said is a fact. So now if you agree that forums are a great place, How about contributing? So if you’re not contributing already, here are the five reasons that may prompt you to start contributing:
1. Help someone out.
2. Solve a real-world problem
@paras_doshi and also learn from the real life challenges that people are facing with a certain technology 😉
— Florin Dumitrescu (@fdumitrescu) June 26, 2012
[Thanks Florin Dumitrescu for pointing this out!]
3. Discover great resources on Inter-webs. This is so because, while answering questions – people drop awesome links in their answers and invariably they are great free resources:
@paras_doshi and learn. I discovered one of the best coding links for help are StackOverflow and Quora.
— Hardik Pandya (@HPsay) June 26, 2012
[Thanks Hardik Pandya for pointing this out!]
4. Learn from other super-smart people and Network with them
5. Test (or “Validate”) your technical know-how
Technical forums like MSDN or StackOverflow are best places to “test” technical know-how. And yes, help someone!
— Paras Doshi (@paras_doshi) June 26, 2012
And One more:
Earn reputation (Build your Brand, they say)
What do you think? If you are already contributing on technical forums – what motivates you? And if you’re not contributing already – what’s stopping you? And I believe that everyone knows about tons of things which others are interested in. You just need to find a place to share that!
Lovely article! Thanks for citing my quote. But I think we owe it to the big communities to have formed such a content rich database in everything.
Thanks. And yes, we do owe it to communities- well said.
I think that we owe a lot to the content rich communities like Quora and StarckOverflow. For everything we get from them for absolutely free. As they say, sharing is caring!
Couldn’t agree more!
In IT if you dont knw abt a solution
Then it may say take 24 man hours to find solution to same
Now if someone already faced similar problem before he may have already spent 24 man hours
But if u get his help ur prob solved in say 4 hours
You save 20 hrs
Now on a statistical level
more people with face the same prob again and again
Now if each one with a solution helps someone else
It saves thousands of man hours on the entire globe
Now that is contributing to HUMANITY
Just the way my brain
Regard
Mantresh Jain
Great Point! Building a repository of Q&A’s that could potentially help lot of folks (in future) and save zillions of man-hours.