Knol being appreciated by Professors

Knol, the article publishing platform of Google is getting appreciated by various professors and professionals. Medical community recognized the utility of Knol by nominating Knol as a platform on which its conference papers can be hosted. A group of professors presented their use of Knol in conducting management courses and were awarded first prize/Gold medal for innovation in pedagogy by Association of Indian Management Schools. Now, Fred Feldon a faculty member of Coastline Community College is making a presentation in a mathematics conference on the use of Knol in learning mathematics through peer review and sharing.

Presentation of Fred Feldon

Google Knol is slowly acquiring more and more admirers.

Knol is now a Top 1000 Ranked Website

Knol now has an estimated 5.9 million unique visitors per month. Its rank is now above 1000 in websites ranked on unique visitors per month. The estimate is arrived on the formula that global numbers are 100 times that of a top authors. Around 35,000 authors are there on Knol.

The article Knol is now a top 1000 website

Today Knol has reached a new milestone

Knol (http://knol.google.com/k/knol-author-foundation-kaf) has grown into the top 1000 web platforms.

Press Release by Knol Author Foundation

knol has great traction - Million page views for authors

Google's Knol platform has great traction. Knol authors' page views are increasing steadily over the years. Today an author reported monthly page views 83,472 which means in the next one year, this author will have one million page views. This author reported one million cumulative page views already on Knol and now is looking forward to the second million in the next one year. Actually the page views next year may be still more as there is an increasing trend in page views every month due to increase in content as well as popularity of Knol among online readers.

Congratulations - Knol Authors

There are some twitter messages today. Knol still lives?

This message is in response to

http://www.digitaltrends.com/web/google-shuts-down-google-desktop-and-nine-other-projects/

Yes, Knol is going forward and growing. So far in this year, 200,000 new knols posted. By year end we will see 300,000. May be next year we will see 500,000. Knol is attracting many new authors.

Page views and visitors are increasing. We estimate 5.23 million unique visitors per month. Momentum is very good and we will reach 6.2 million in two or three months.

Knol authors even though very silent are doing a good job. Congratulations.

Google Knol Home Page

5 Cs of Blogging - Applicable to Knol too - Video

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From Darrenrowse youtube channel

100 New Knol Books were Started - Knol in Full Bloom

Knol platform has a feature called collections. Using that feature 100 new knol books in different subjects were started. This may give philip to this concept and many more knol books may be launched on the Knol platform. Knol has focus on academic content even though it is an open platform with least policing and censorship. There are now research papers, books, term papers, concept explanations, problems and solutions on Knol to help students as well as executives in their continuous education endeavor. Knol is truly fulfilling the objective with which it was launched. To provide a wiki platform to individuals to take the initiative and provide learning materials in the small units called knols. Many knol authors are doing that job with their abilities. There are number of professors as well a senior executives on Knol contributing their share for the global knowledge transfer project of Google. In year 2010, Knol has grown by at least 100% in number of knols and visitors numbers.

2011 must be a much better year, as social media takes notice of the positive developments on the Knol platform and informs the public the contribution of Knol in the area academic learning materials.

100 New Knol Books List

There will be many gaps in these books to start with. But they will get filled as new knols are written by knol authors to fill these gaps. That is voluntary crowd sourcing works. There will be significant delay or time lag from the time a project is announced to the time it gets completed. In a similar way, the pace of the activity will also be uneven. Sometimes more people participate and sometimes the activity may come to halt.

Success Stories on Knol of Google - October 2010

Success stories are coming out on Knol day by day.

Page views per day of 65,000 registered for a single knol.
Page views per week of 95,000 registered for a single knol.
Knol portfolios are having steady page views and visitors numbers.
Authors are registering double figure adsense incomes every month. They will become three digits shortly.
Many authors have written 100 articles and more on Knol. Some have
Every day new authors registering.
Every day new knols are being written.
Knol authors are winning prizes.
Knol authors are addressing digital media conferences.
Knol authors are using knols to deliver material in their classes.
Knol authors are using knols to deliver study materials to various institutions in their country.
Knol content is getting appreciated in various forums.