TED conversations

A social media platform that connects people for conversation, collaboration and debate. The platform gives people access to engage notable TED speakers, and the broader TED community, in conversations that -- for the first time on a social network -- have a time limit.

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	TED conversations
Website	http://www.ted.com/conversations
Who uses the site?	TED speakers and community (engaged, intellectually curious members)
Topics	General topics and discussion but mainly focused on all important problems to solve around the world...
User reputation system	Yes TEDCred scores, TEDCred medals, and badges
Related questions	No
Related video	Yes Related TED Talks
Tag assignments	Yes
Ratings for question	Yes vote for great conversation
Ratings for comments	Yes
Summary	Yes Discussion summary
Follow questions	No
Follow topics	No
Follow members	No
Post a Message to Your Followers	No
Ability to edit question (modify)	No
Ability to suggest edits to answers	No
Email notifications	No
Search box autocompletes	No
Saves drafts of posts	No
Revert modifications	No
Real-time updating	No
Statistics	No
Volunteer moderators	Yes
Time-boxed conversations	Yes Whether it's one day or one month, TED Conversations are assigned an expiration date to keep the discussion sharp and on-topic
Advertisements	Yes
Technology platform used for other sites	No
Content license / Terms	Creative Commons 3.0 (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives) license: attribute the conversation; noncommercial use only; and no derivative works.
Identity system	TED account
Like	0 Likes
Last update	2011-02-21 23:47:20