MBA - Management Knowledge Revision Guidebook on Knol

Knowledge workers need to revise and refresh their knowledge. But there are no good support books to do this activity easily and comfortably. On Knol, a project to provide articles that support revision of MBA program was started in July 2008. This project has come to a stage wherein the collection of articles can be presented to MBAs as Guidebook that helps them in their revision task.

Simultaneously Engineering and Management News was started on Paper.li to provide the latest developments in Management to MBAs. The combined resource will keep MBAs proficient in both basic management concepts and current development and thinking in Management.

!00,000 Top Knols - Identification Project

A project to identify 100,000 top knols through search link output of 800 knols each is started.

Top Knols - Knol Book

Equity Research - Knol Book - Made More Comprehensive

Equity Research Knol Book is now brought into the two stage model. Chapter collections and topic collections.


Some of the chapters are

Introduction to Equity Research - Knol Book Chapter Collection

Financial Statement Analysis - Knol Book Chapter Collection

Graham and Dodd's Equity Analysis

Piotroski Method - Equity Analysis - Chapter Knol Collection

Market Anomalies and Equity Research - Knol Readings

9500 Essays and Articles on Marketing on Knol

On Knol there are more than 9500 essays and articles on marketing, advertising and selling. The best of these articles assembled into a knol book on marketing. The book is assembled into a two level structure. In the first levels, readers will see variuos chapter collections. Under each chapter collection, the relevant articles of the chapter are collected. For some topics more than one article are included to provide variety to the reader. The book will be updated periodically with new articles posted and edited.

http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-k-v-s-s/marketing-management-knol-book-of/2utb2lsm2k7a/3216#

Knol books by Narayana Rao - List 5

Human Resource Management - Knol Book http://knol.google.com/k/-/-/2utb2lsm2k7a/3328

IIT JEE Preparation Guide - Knol Book http://knol.google.com/k/-/-/2utb2lsm2k7a/3672

Improvement Management of Tasks, Processes and Systems - Knol Book http://knol.google.com/k/-/-/2utb2lsm2k7a/3730



Income Tax - India - Knol Book http://knol.google.com/k/-/-/2utb2lsm2k7a/3757

Income Tax - USA - Knol Book http://knol.google.com/k/-/-/2utb2lsm2k7a/3758

India Information - Knol Book http://knol.google.com/k/-/-/2utb2lsm2k7a/3751

Indian Classical Dances - Knol Book http://knol.google.com/k/-/-/2utb2lsm2k7a/3440

Indian Classical Music - Knol Book http://knol.google.com/k/-/-/2utb2lsm2k7a/3248

Indian History - Knol Book http://knol.google.com/k/-/-/2utb2lsm2k7a/3470

Indian Society - Sociology of Indian Subcontinent - Knol Book http://knol.google.com/k/-/-/2utb2lsm2k7a/3513

Knol Books - List 2

Corporate Governance - Knol Book

Cost Accounting - Knol Book of Readings

Creativity and Innovation - Knol Book

Cultural History of India - Knol Book

Data Structures - Knol Book

Database Management Systems (DBMS) - Knol Book

Derivatives - Knol Book

Design of Machine Elements - Knol Book

Dressing for Fashion, Power, Style and Success - knol Book

Econometrics - Knol Book

List of 100 books

Knol Books - List 1

1. Algorithms - Design, Analysis & Improvement and Applications - Knol Book

2. Auditing - Knol Book

3. Automobile Engineering - Knol Book

4. Basic Electronics - Knol Book

5. Business, Corporate and Managerial Ethics - Knol Book

6. Central Excise - India - Knol Book

7. Chemistry (K-12 or 12th Standard) - Knol Book

8. Communication Skills - Knol Book

9. Computer Architecture & Organization - Knol Book

10. Computer Programs and Programming Languages - Knol Book

List of 100 Knol Books

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.

India Information - Knol Book

India Information - Knol Book launched.

India Information - Knol Book

Knol offers good facility for developing knol books out of various articles written various authors on Knol on different topics.

Country information knol books can be launched on Knol

Computer Science and Engineering - Knol Books - Catalogue

Number of books are under development on Knol. These provide useful articles and essays on various issues related to the subjects.

Computer Science and Engineering - Knol Books - Catalogue

The individual books available are:

Algorithms - Design, Analysis & Improvement and Applications - Knol Book

Computer Architecture & Organization - Knol Book


Computer Programs and Programming Languages - Knol Book

Data Structures - Knol Book

Database Management Systems (DBMS) - Knol Book

Software Engineering, Testing and Project Management - Knol Book

Knol doing a good job in providing focused learning materials.

Knol Books to Learn Languages

Knol Books to Learn Languages

Number of authors have written various articles on how to learn various languages of variety or regions.

Also there are youtube videos, Google Docs and Google Books.

Knol books on learning various languages provide various knols written by different knols authors on supporting the learning of a language.

Presently Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korea, Russian, Spanish are available. The knols will increase in due course of time due to inclusion of more knols and also posting of some more knols by knol authors who identify the gaps from these knol books.

Knol Books

Knol Books idea is now actively being pursued. The number of books available is more than 50 now. There are gaps in these books. But the authors may recognize the gaps now more quickly and fill the gaps. Among knol authors also, knol books transfer information very quickly about gaps and availability of articles on various topics of subject.

The books can be accessed through:

Knol Book Catalogue

List of Knol Books by KVSSNRao

Cost Accouting Knol Book Launched

Number of knol books are getting launched on Knol. Knol has 500,000 knols on various topics providing large number of articles for developing books based on collection basis. The collections also indicate to author topics on which knols are yet to be written. This these knol books provide information to knol authors to write on topics that are not existing.

The cost accounting knol book has now four chapters.

Scope for Posting Problems and Examples on Knol

Knol is focused on Study materials for school, College and University Education as well as for continuing education.

In this respect, there is a big scope for teachers and authors to post articles/knols/papers having practice problems in various subjects. Some of them can be given solutions in a separate page or in the same sheet. There is an effort to organize knol books by combing articles of various authors. Hence web pages having only problems also will get promoted as part of some Knol Books.

Knol Book Publishing Facilitated by Knol Collection Feature

Knols books can be published in various ways.

A single author can write the full textbook and some of the chapters or sections can be coauthored by other authors.

Equity Research - Online Textbook on Knol was announced which will be developed on the basis of single author knol textbook. But initially, knols by other authors are being collected to present quickly study material to knol visitors in a book format.

A knol book can be developed as a collaborative textbook. In a collaborative Knol textbook, different authors write different chapters and this is predecided for authors join the collaboration as they come to know of the book's development.

Knol book of readings can also be developed. This model was started sometime early but was not used that frequently. Once again on Knol this model is becoming popular.

Textbook Writing can be rewarding on Knol

A knol author advocates that writing online textbooks on Knol can be rewarding. Authors can write a textbook in the form of 300 knols as one knol for each section in a chapter. If thousand persons read the book fully in a year around $300 to $400 income will come to an author. This can be a comparable income with print books on an expected result basis. If the book is read by 10,000 persons fully in year the income will be $3000 to $4000 per year.

While the per copy income will be low in online books, the probability of getting more visitors and readers is high on Knol as readers are accessing it free of cost and also readers from any country can access it at any time they want.

The knol comparing online publishing and print publishing

One more Knol Textbook launched - Equity Research

An online textbook on Equity Research was launched on Knol. Presently the scheme of the book is posted. This book will be based on the course plan posted on Knol.

Equity research course at NITIE

The book's link is

Equity Research Online Book