Are You On Facebook?

If not, maybe you should consider it? Facebook is another social networking website that allows its users to find friends and send them messages and also update their profile as often as they would like. Users can also join networks that fit into their lifestyles that are organized by city, school, and even religion. When using Google Knol or Wikipedia all one has to do is intergrate Facebook into his/her knol and allow his/her followers to know that Facebook is used as well and they can go to Facebook and request to be a friend or fan.

Facebook's original intention was to allow university students to get to know one another but has grown rapidly into people getting to know each other around the world. Businesses use Facebook to promote their services and products as does universities and churches to promotes their organizations and their serivices. Realtors have come to use Facebook to announce their services, as well as to show off their properties. Many restuarants advertise on Facebook and ask fans to follow them on their menus in store.

What's great about Facebook is that all one has to do is upload the Facebook button on your webpage and everyone knows that your company is on Facebook. As long as someone know your name or email address, then that person can contact you to become a friend.

To Tweet or Not To Tweet!

Twitter is the next new thing in today’s technology. It can be used for several different reasons. Twitter is a free social networking service that allows its users to send and read messages known as tweets. This service is ranked as one of the 50 most popular websites worldwide by a web traffic analysis.
The Twitter website offers its users various applications that can be used in online or with mobile devices. With Google’s Knol project, I thought that Twitter’s group application would go great together. After an author of a Knol has finished, he or she could tweet a group and decide to get feedback from his/ her peers to see what they thought about the Knol. With Wikipedia, a group tweet would also be beneficial; the group could actually contribute to the same article but be in different places at different times. There is another application that Twitter offers that I thought would be great as well. It is called TwitSharks.com. This application actually searches the Twitter stream for you 24/7 for the keywords that you have put into your profile that matches your business interest and when something pops up in the search, then the tweet is "pushed" to you cell phone or emailed directly to you. This will allow you never to miss a business opportunity via Twitter again.

These are great applications for businesses that are expanding and are just starting out and want to put their products out into the market. Businesses can even ask for their clients to refer others to them by asking to have others follow them on Twitter. These are just a few of the examples of the many applications that Twitter offers for its clients to use and recommend to others. So, get to tweeting.

Google Knol is a great Web 2.0 application for anyone to use and benefit from. Since its development and introduction into the market, Google began to compete with Wikimedia and it’s ever expanding Wikipedia in the information era to allow the consumers of the world to use and contribute to the ever changing industry of information.

With these two applications in existence, any and everyone can benefit from their information. The articles that are produced are vast and cover a wide range of topics that may spur the interest of many businesspeople, companies, employers, and employees alike. Businesses can post a Google Knol about their own company for others to see and attract business and sales of their products, employers can post possible job listings and qualifications in a knol as well, and prospective employees would benefit from looking up such information on Wikipedia or Google Knol before going on a job interview in order to be a better candidate for a job listing that he or she was applying for.

So, as anyone can see, anyone can use Google Knol or Wikipedia to gain knowledge on just about anything. After all, you don’t have to be Einstein to know about his law of relativity.

Just in case you have any question about Google Knol, the following is a video about a complete explaination of Google Knol. Thanks and have fun!

Companies can benefit greatly from using wikis or knols as they are called. The vast array of knowledge that is contained in these articles can be used for various areas in the business world. These areas are as diverse as are the articles that represent them.

Companies may allow their employees to write or contribute to wikis or knols about its entity for the sole purpose of expanding into other territories or parts of the world, in order to market their products, or possibly to explain to the public what the company’s business philosophy is all about. Companies can also use articles from Google Knol for their research and development. In the event that there are some unexplained occurrences in an experiment and some information is needed, Wikipedia could provide such information. Google Knol would be a great way to boast a new discovery of such an occurrence.

As one can see, Wikipedia and Google Knol are great applications that are beneficial to any company and can be used by anyone.

In today’s market, competition is essential. That is the reasoning behind Google coming up with its Knol as a response to Wikipedia. In my first two blogs, I attempted to explain the difference between the two. I wanted to try and compare and contrast the two even futher this time.

Wikipedia was created first and has enjoyed great success by the Wikimedia Foundation, which is a not-for-profit foundation that has created an entire line of free-content projects. One does not have to be a scholar on any subject to edit or contribute to articles with Wikipedia. One could just simply be a casual reader and decide to edit or contribute to the articles. Here is a video on How to use Wikipedia:







Google decided to go a step farther than Wikimedia with its Knol project. Knol allows its users to create their own, individual articles and not allow anyone to contribute to the article unless they are invited to do so. The “author” may accept comments from people who view his or her Knol and decide to edit it and may also decide to collaborate with other “authors”. The following is a video on How to create a Google Knol:

Last time I blogged about Google Knol and I wrote that it was Google's answer to Wikipedia. I thought that this time I would take the time to explain actually what Wikipedia is all about because there may be some people who actually do not know about it

Wikipedia is defined as a multi-lingual, Weg-based, free-content encyclopedia project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About. The articles posted on Wikipedia are used as a guide to provide its users to related pages with other information. Unlike Google Knol, Wikipedia is written colaboratively by different people from around the world. If you have access to the Internet, then you can make changes to just about any Wikipedia articles.

One doesn't even have to have any specific qualifications to contribute to an article. The very intent of Wikipedia is to cover existing knowledge not actually create any new research. Anyone can cross-reference & add to articles if they want. Wikipedia has actual editing policies that they administer and a standard to which it holds the information. Any disputed and substandard information is subject to be removed. Wikipedia was created in 2001 and now has over 75,000 active contributors.