If you haven’t yet discovered it, Focus.com is a great (and free) place to find business experts. It’s similar to Q&A sites such as Formspring and Quora, but focuses on providing advice for business professionals from qualified and reviewed industry experts through roundtables and online Q&As. I use it all the time and am consistently impressed with the quality of responses I get when posting a question. This week the site is getting even better by launching its enhanced Live Event Platform. While Focus has already offered 1,000 live events to its 1 million members, in the past you could only dial in and listen to speakers. With the new platform, you can now interact with speakers and experts, give your opinions and ask questions in real-time. You can also rate how interesting or uninteresting a discussion is, and give up-to-the-second comments on how you feel speakers are doing. The social aspect is also different, since all your comments and feedback can be streamlined to your social networks—meaning your contacts from LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter can hear about an event as it’s happening. Learn more at Focus.com or check out its Events Schedule.
