Thursday, April 14, 2011

Nrao - Two Million Page View Online Author

I started this blog in rather strange circumstances. Today I am happy to reach the milestone of two million online page views. This blog is the first step in online journey of mine.

The first blog post of mine.

http://kvssnrao.blogspot.com/2006/02/became-blogger.html

February 8th 2006

Became a blogger

Wanted to post a comment. In the process started this blog.

Nrao

I am documenting my mile online writing adventure for four years on Knol

Narayana Rao K.V.S.S. - Reaches 2 Million Page View Milestone in April 2011

My thanks to all visitors to my blog posts and knol articles.

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Cyber Tour of World Monuments and Tourist Spots through Google Street View

It was interesting application. One can see the world's important monuments from close quarters through our PCs. Hope this project will succeed and many more spots are added to the gallery.

Cyber Tour of Historic Sites through Google Street View


Now we can cyber tour the world World cyber tour

Monday, March 21, 2011

Knol has Good Content

I always advocated that on Knol many authors have posted good content. But there is no way we can easily find out good content on Knol and highlight them to all.

I prepared today one page directory of interesting knols.


Knol Search Directory of Interesting Knols

Sunday, February 20, 2011

10 Million Page Views for Online Articles Possible

There are online article writers on Hubpages, Associated content, Ezine, etc. with 10 million page views (Details of 10 million authors ). Even on Knol there is one author now with 5 million page views and in a year's time, he will reach 10 million page views. There are some more authors who will reach such milestones on Knol. I am presently having 35,000 page views and some time back, the number could be 50,000 page views. The number is likely to increase as the Knol platform becomes more popular and authors support each other more.

So there is scope for online writing even now. Especially when the area of writing is areas where online content is sparse, the chance of success increases significantly.

Saturday, November 06, 2010

Knol Textbook on Industrial Engineering by Narayana Rao

Started the project of a textbook on Knol on Industrial engineering. It will take around two years to complete the book. Initially, existing articles are being assembled in collections. But these will be rewritten in the days to come and fresh articles will be added to assemble the textbook.

Introduction to Industrial Engineering - Online Textbook on Knol

Friday, November 05, 2010

Faculty members can write Textbooks on Knol

Knol is a wiki-based predominantly academic article writing platform promoted by Google. The platform has promoted writing textbooks on it. Textbooks can be written in various models on it. One model is to write it as one knol or one web page for each section of a chapter. That way a book can be written in around 300 pages and an automatic navigation is provided by the Knol collection feature.

There is convenience and reward for writing a textbook on Knol. The expected revenue earned can be same as print publication as there is global audience on Knol.

See the article on Knol for more details

http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-k-v-s-s/textbook-writing-online-publishing/2utb2lsm2k7a/3178#

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Industrial Engineering also got Total Tag - Total Industrial Engineering

H. Yamashina of Japan developed World Class Manufacturing approach and he included Total Industrial Engineering along with Total Quality Management, Total productive Maintenance and Cost Deployment.

According to him TQM is the brain, TPM is the muscle and TIE is the humanware.

I am trying to find out the details of the concept. So far I could only access three or four slides on the concept. Covered in a post on Knol.

Total Industrial Engineering - H. Yamashina

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Knol is A Unique ICT Resource for Faculty Members

What are the unique features of Knol?


1. Wiki technology.


Wiki technology makes collaboration possible and also makes it easy. Groups of authors can come together and write articles or prepare lists.

2. Author identification


Very essential for identification of course plans and course materials by individual faculty members. Also when students post their assignments, author identify is very essential. Author identity on a popular wiki platform is a unique feature of Knol. Google's ownership makes it a popular platform. Authors join it without hesitation once they appreciate its utility.

3. Scope for diverse articles on the same topic.


Different faculty members from different institutions have to post their materials and course plans. Hence the platform must have the willingness to support many different knols/articles/essays on the platform. Another distinct feature of the knol that makes it ideal for use by faculty members.

4. Comments


Facilitates interaction among learners, subject faculty, other faculty of the same institute, other faculty of different institutes, alumni, and practitioners. Provides evaluation of learning of any institute by global a community

5. Knol Collection Facility


Provides an ability to assemble Globally best study material support for any course.

Source:

Knol - A Unique ICT Resource for Faculty Members

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Knol is Thriving

Knol, Google's article writing platform is thriving.

http://knol.google.com

Many authors are writing articles every day and many are reading. There are popular authors whose articles have page views of thousands and they are still updating their pages and writing new knols.

Knol thus proved its utility to both authors and visitors.

Tuesday, July 06, 2010

7th July 2010 knol-day-of-industrial-engineering

Birth Day of Frank Gilbreth 7th July is celebrated as the Knol Day of Industrial Engineering for the year 2010. Many articles on Industrial Engineering are being written for the occasion.


Students of NITIE are posting number of articles which are summaries of various articles published in Industrial Engineer magazine

Index of articles written by IE students of NITIE, Mumbai, India on the occasion of Knol Day of Industrial Engineering


Industrial Engineer Magazine Article Summaries by 2010 IE Students NITIE, Mumbai, India

All visitors are requested to write comments on various issues related to industrial engineering in comments blocks.

Knol Day of ...

Friday, April 16, 2010

Million page views for knol portfolio

My knol portfolio completed million page views according to knol counter on 15.4.2010. That makes me the first English language individual knol author to cross million page views.

Knols of Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Not Able to Access Knol for Reading or Posting

Right from the morning 6.30 am (IST) on 21.2.2010 to till now 1.25 pm (IST - Ind. Std. Time) I am not able to access knol.

Wanted to post a new knol on productivity Improvement Principles

Sunday, February 07, 2010

Operations Research - System Efficiency Tools

Operations Research - An Efficiency Improvement Tool for Industrial Engineers


Operations research is a system efficiency improvement tool in the hands of industrial engineers. I expanded this thought into an article on google knol platform



Knol Handbook of Industrial Engineering (Year 2010 Version)

A knol is developed as a handbook of industrial engineering. It is developed on the lines of an engineering management handbook assembled on ASEM website. I my self prepared 50 articles on Industrial Engineering. I am also assembling various web pages and articles that complement the articles that I prepared. Thus the handbook contains my online articles as well as online articles by others.