However, there is one issue I’ve occasionally noticed (although much less prevalent than it is on some other sites), and would like to point it out here in the hopes of perhaps a few people improving their habits.

When posting a question, please write a title that clearly and concisely identifies what the question is about.

This enables both potential answerers and future readers to actually have some idea of whether it is relevant to them and worth their time. Vague generic titles such as “what’s the best”, “what should I do”, etc, are useless without further clarification.

Of course, this is also true for emails (and often an even worse situation there, with the clueless people who sometimes don’t bother to include any title at all on their email messages – at least LinkedIn requires a title of some sort).

Asking questions has been integral to my work as a coach and psychotherapist for the last 12 years and I can wholeheartedly endorse your points about the power of questions to raise awarenes, engage people and generate insights.

He turned me on to Linkedin, as well as several other social/business networking sites, and I’d be way behind the curve right now if I hadn’t taken his advice.

I am constantly in search of good topics for my public radio show, “The Real Life Survival Guide”, and it seems as though I’ve just found a great new resource.

Thanks again, Tom!

Another thing is that if you give good answers you can also become an expert, so your name becomes more visible inside the site and probably out as well.

GREAT job Tom, and thanks Jason for sharing Tom’s genius with us all!