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It could be that you’re stuck at an airport and need to know where you can find a place to lie your head for the night. Maybe you’re looking for a new watering hole where nobody knows your name or perhaps you need to find a vase to replace the one that your kids broke with a hockey stick while they were playing indoors against mom’s wishes.

We’ve got you covered with Praized Answers.

Praized Answers is a way for you to submit a question about local stuff and harness the power of community to find the answers you are looking for. Simply use the helpful search form to ask a structured question or go solo and use a blank box to phrase your question as you wish.

As soon as you ask your question, it gets published to Praized’s Local Buzz newsfeed, our home page. You can also select other social media services to broadcast your questions (currently Facebook, Twitter, Identi.ca, Friendfeed and Ping.fm). Choose how you wish to be notified of responses (email, Twitter, RSS).

Oh, but Praized Answers isn’t all about take, take, take. We encourage you to use Praized Answers to lend a hand by sharing your knowledge. When you see a question that you are obviously knowledgeable on, please post an answer and help a Praizer out. You can use our search tool to identify the perfect recommended merchant for your friends. They’ll love you for it!

Find it at answers.praized.com

We’d love to hear your feedback on our latest feature so please send your comments to help@praizedmedia.com or visit us on Get Satisfatction.

We’re very “location-aware” people here at Praized. We love it when people are able to find new spots, share their experiences and help their tribes to find out more about their neighborhoods and travel spots. (Who knows how many cases of Montezuma’s revenge we’ve helped to prevent through the power of the little voting arrow!)

Not happy to let you do just any old regular search for locations, we’ve added a tab for ‘Advanced Search Features’ to allow you to get even more precise and detailed. This will help you to be able to better locate all of those out of sight, out of mind places around your home or office that are but a few steps away from you

The 4 ways you can get a bit more specific on what you’re looking for are to :

• enter your address, zip or postal code
• enter your latitude / longitude
• be global and search for locations around your city, state or province
• add a distance criteria

You’ve seen from the previous post how our fearless VP of Product Development, Seb Provencher uses Praized Tools to lifehack his blogging efforts by posting location information directly in his blogposts without having to leave the comfortable “WordPress zone”.

This post will look at how Seb uses Praized Tools to embed location information about companies he is blogging about.

In this example, Seb gives his recap of venerable tech journalist Walter Mossberg’s review of the much awaited G1 phone.

Note from the photo above how Seb has embedded Praized links to their location of the head offices of the 2 companies (Google and Apple) he mentions in this post, allowing for the reader to see who in the Praized Tribe has Praized, Raized, favourited or commented on these locations. Rather than using boring, old links to these companies, Seb is social and encouraing his community to share their thoughts on these locations.

Secondly, at the footer of Seb’s blog post, you’ll find the extended entry box showing the full details of the 2 companies mentioned in his post as a quick glance at the information which exists for them in the Praized system.

All in all, Seb is working the Praized Tools to effectively and efficiently provide more information to his readers. Nobody likes a “drive by blogger”, throwing links out there without providing a context or an ability for readers to interact with.