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Member Q&A

The Member Q&A service lets participants tap the knowledge and experience of other members as well as Montague Institute contacts and staff.

To initiate a question, members contact the Montague Institute by e-mail or telephone. Montague Institute staff formulate the question and disseminate it via e-mail without revealing the identity or company affiliation of the requestor. Staff summarize the responses and sometimes elicit additional information from respondents. The information gathered, along with staff commentary and relevant links, is published in the Montague Institute Review.

Occasionally, Institute staff arrange conference calls between requestors and respondents. Members can contract for custom research services if more extensive data gathering, analysis, and reporting is needed.

The Member Q&A service has several advantages over other networking methods, such as meetings and electronic bulletin boards (discussion groups):

 Targeted. No time wasted finding someone with the answer.

 Confidential. The identity and company affiliation of both requestors and respondents is protected.

 In-depth. Responses are summarized, issues are clarified, links and commentary are provided. Conference calls provide direct contact with selected responders.

 Inexpensive. No travel is required, and the service is free of charge to members (there is a fee for teleconferences).

 Indexed and searchable. All Member Q&A articles since the service began in 1999 are indexed and can be searched using a full text search engine.

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This Member Q&A article involved four conference calls between the requestor, respondents, and Institute staff.