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We recently announced that the Answers.com Help Center was media-enriched with how-to videos for several site actions. As of today, Supervisors on Answers.com can review the how-to’s of several ‘super powers’ with slideshares created by Ganderton (or Gregg), the Mentoring Program Coordinator.

The presentations are all available on Answers.com’s Slidespace (Slideshare account), or Supervisors can review them directly from the Help Center pages by clicking the Slideshare thumbnails:

• Batch Recategorize (non Supervisors can view it here)
• Merging questions (non Supervisors can view it here)
• Splitting alternates (non Supervisors can view it here)

Check out an example right here: Merging questions on Answers.com (tip: increase the slideshare to ‘full screen’ to see the text clearly).

Interested in creating a how-to slideshare to help other community members? Get a t-shirt for it! It only requires a basic knowledge of PowerPoint and of course, the help topic you want to cover. Leave a comment below.

Remember when WikiAnswers was one of the Top Ten Web 2.0 sites chosen at TWS 2008 in Tel Aviv, Israel?

Here’s the presentation that was given by two awesome WikiAnswers-crazies:

We’ve just returned from a wonderful day at TWS 2008, a hi tech conference that took place in Tel Aviv, Israel. Ten Web 2.0 start ups were chosen from hundreds to present their pitches to the diverse audience, including yours truly (the other nine are summed up over at Mashable, CenterNetworks, Blonde2.0, and VC Cafe).

Judges included Om Malik, Guy Kawasaki, Pete Cashmore, and others.

We made a 5-minute presentation based around the ever-crucial question: Is the wrapper of Trident gum chewable?, which included handing out many many pieces of the stuff to the audience for some real, live social knowledge sharing.

The rest of the day was spent sharing the wonder and beauty that is WikiAnswers: A Q&A website that is based on the wiki format, where anyone can edit questions or answers to create – oh, sorry, there I go with the pitch again.

Here are some of the day’s highlights:

The booth: where all the magic happens.

The pitch: It’s pretty easy with such an awesome site.

This is the face of a person who has chewed too much Trident gum before doing a presentation which includes… Trident gum.

A conversation about WikiAnswers.

The name of the game.

Nothing like a bit of chocolate goo at a conference!

A big thank you to the judges of TWS 2008 for including WikiAnswers among ten of the finest start ups around!