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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.

Sebastien Provencher, Praized’s VP of Product Development is an avid blogger with a focus on providing readers of The Praized Blog with his take on Local 2.0 (defined as: local + social).

Seb also attends and speaks at many conferences on this topic and by reading his blog and following his twitter messages you’ll be able to find out where he’ll be next.

So how does a busy guy like Seb use Praized to help him save time in getting the word out to his social network that he’s ‘on the road again’?

He’s installed the Praized plug-in on his WordPress-powered blog and uses the Praized Tools embedded within his blogging dashboard to quickly attribute locations he’s blogging about with the relevant geolocation information associated with it.

Above – The resulting blog post:

But wait! It doesn’t end there. Seb asks his network where he should go to eat while he’s in sometimes unfamiliar territory. In this case, he got to enjoy tasty mini-burgers before a steak dinner (which seems a bit like a meat-overdose if you ask me!?!).

Happy with his experience, he left a breadcrumb (or meatcrumb?) trail for others by Praizing the steakhouse so that they’ll be able to validate that it is indeed a spot worth visiting.

And the circle of Praized is complete.