Trending Knols

K.
Tks.
Rao
Gaaru
Best
Phil

But I did see in some social media tools now, the Google+ button. I do not know which one. When I come across it, I shall inform you the tool first.

Sorry Sir, i just checked, its not there. the one (Addtoany) available at this knol

Ok that is again good news. let me check it
best

I think add to any has got G+ button now.

Congrats Raogaaru,
for this tremendous growth. Keep it up,
today i noticed a post at g+ about its tremendous growth in a short span of time, beating almost all its counterparts. you can read that post in my scoop it page. g+ is no doubt a wonderful place to promote our writings/activities etc. but unfortunately i could not find a g+ button at knol pages. One need to post it manually. is there any other way to do this like the add on button/
Best regards

The good news is that now Knol has estimated 5.6 million unique visitors per month and it qualified to be labelled as top 1000 website.

Also yesterday, I had 3962 page views. I think shortly I shall register 5000 page views in a day. I have 5000 posted knols at the end of June 2011. I shall be very happy to see 5000 page views in a day for 5000 knols and then hope that may knol authors target it and get 600,000 page views per day for the 600,000 knols posted on Knol.

That would mean 18 million page views per month and 10 million unique visitors per month. Knol website rank will go up to 800 or so.

Knol authors can at least give a brief of their knols on Google plus to promote their knols systematically by making many aware of their knol.

Regards.

Today our estimate for Knol is 5.6 million unique visitors per month. We can declare Knol as Top 1000 website based on unique visitors.

Thanks to all Knol Authors.

Dear Brother Ariel, at personal levels I appreciate your contribution to Knol. Time to thank all knol authors and encourage them to keep contributing. On crowd sourced platform cooperation and mutual encouragement are essential for the progress.

That is Good News."Knol in Top 1000 Websites"
Great Going,
Yes, we need to be more active, though the platform is still not responding we the knol contributors should take initiatives,
I found there is no share button embedded in it i am doing it is that OK.
Best
Philip

Good work. Thank you.

I think Knol is a top 1000 website now. A little more push from Knol and it will scale greater heights. Authors can breathe easy now and their knols will reach the discerning public for a long time to come.

thank you

I will try to do my best here,
MAK

I made a seach link and a knol


Top Arabic Knols - 2008 to Current Date

http://knol.google.com/k/-/-/2utb2lsm2k7a/4777

You can help in improving it to get more results.

Hi brothers Rao and Phil

I agree that we have to promote Knols as much as we can

Best wishes,
MAK

Thank you Brother Ariel.

That is really good news,
I think we need to promot
our knols more often as
possible, actully i stopped
doing it since i was more
on at my blogs
Thanks Raogaaru for the
Suggestion
Have a good day
Philip

Hi RaoGaaru,
Good to hear from you,
Yes, if each one propagate about this definitely we can curtail the alarming rate of surging green gas emission. Let us do our part and make awareness among our community and the people around us and the through the contact, if the spread the word it will be good again. thanks keep inform
best
philp

Thanks for the twitter messages also. I saw them just some time back.

Welcome Brother Ariel

It is an important society improvement message. We all need to support you in this endeavour. Energy conservation has to be remembered all the time by all of us.

Congratulations Johnson.

It is a very notable achievement.

Thank you for understanding my comment, Peter. Google relies on computer intelligence even if it is not yet proven that computer intelligence becomes as good as human intelligence soon. If it is one of the important atmospheres in the company, it is a good idea to cooperate with emotional based companies such as Asian companies. The emotional companies can fill the a few remained blanks in the company.

Additionally, it is very happy to see the icons which link a Knol with social systems such as twitter and face-book. I'll include in my Konl and will use it happily.

But I think, Kim S. is right: There is by far too less support by Google. Such a system will only run, if there is also something like a "manual" support. Google needs people, not just computers.

BTW. I have implemented in some (usually my "best selling") articles a twitter and facebook button, eg. here (close to the top of the article):

http://knol.google.com/k/peter-mersch/familienarbeit-in-gleichberechtigten/6u2bxygsjec7/2

Thank you for the comment.

As there are large number of authors, ideas can come from anyone. We are free to implement our idea in a manual way and if it found useful and many knol authors recommend Google can take it up in a big way. So there have to be creative ideas from one or other author on a continuous basis.

Have a look at this comment on Knol

http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/01/google-knol-six-months-later-wikipedia-need-not-worry.ars

All of us can understand the relevance of page views and our trending knol selection.

At that time they wrote 50 page views per week is an elite knol. We are identifying knols with 700 page views per week. After we initiated various activities, the negative comments on Knol subsided in social media. On Knol also they will subside. But responsibility to make their knols successful shifts to authors only completely. We have to know SEO and improve visitors to our knols. There is no body else to blame and there is no body who is going to support all the time.

But Knol has to be robust in its technical features.

Narayanagaaru, that's really good news and very encouraging too. Keep going.
Thanks for the info
Philip Ariel

A Warm Welcome to S E to this knol.
Keep inform
Best regards,
Philip

Welcome aboard...

Best regards,
Moharram

We have a new coauthor.

Scholar's Edition
To provide more timely information of trending knols.

Mr. Greenfinch

I like the two terms that you used "entropic" and "dwindling marginal utility". Both are appropriate. As I see now the benefit of twitter is in the first two to three days. One hardly gets any visitors from twitter. Because I do not see anybody's message normally and others will not see my messages normally. Everyday I search for "Knol" and see what is there. Because they are not many on any day, it is a very easy process.

The benefit of twitter is that many search engines bots come to your knol in the initial one or two days and that may help you later. Also twitter messages are being displayed on various blogs and that may also help an article in some backlinks. As you said our messages in general have zero utility on twitter as a single message.

Yes we need jokes often and have to laugh. You are welcome to crack jokes.

Thanks to you, for taking me into the team
As for promotion, yes I do it in several - targeted - ways.

But am still resisting the facebook and twitter crazes, considering
that those outfits can become invasive masters more than servants
and are on the way towards entropic and dwindling marginal utility..
So I just wait until I can join the next step in cyber-social evolution,
massive hologramic telepathy ;-))

Joke apart, yes I will bring any creative ideas I can think about
or see around

Thank you for the comment.

You observation is correct. We have come a long way from good content on Knol means only medical articles.

There is diversity of content and I feel strongly knol authors need to systematic promotion to get much better performance.

1. Internally posting the links on promotion boards or appropriate lists.
2. Send a twitter message for each knol posted.
3. Make at least one book mark for each knol. Now xomba looks interesting to me for book marking.
http://www.xomba.com/referral/7783a13f
4. Make a facebook entry.
5. Make a blog entry.

I do not think even ten to fifteen knol authors are dong this.
I am now doing two. Promotion board posting and twitter posting. I have to increase my promotion activity even by reducing knol writing and commenting.

I think I can double my page views this year, if I follow the above promotion steps. There are authors on other platforms who follow the above steps and succeeded.

Thank you for the comment.

Hope you are more fit now.

As you noticed, even though the weekly links, and monthly links have worked for some, now they are broken. I have written in knol help comments, to give weekly page views for most viewed knols on weekly basis.

Now whenever, I update this knol, I am checking daily knol search link. Weekly page view knols come when I happen to visit a knol and I see there 700 weekly page views on it.

I thank Peter Mersch, for he has indicated his knol got 1000 page views in 10 days. As the concept of trending is popular, now it is up to authors to come out and declare their knol as a trending knol. They can do it in their knol itself, they can do it in social media, like twitter and facebook, and they can do it in this knol and also in Knol discussion forum knol.

I hope the idea of trending knol creates some excitement in authors. I already wrote in my comments that a message on twitter does get some good page views for new knols. More knol authors need to use social media promotion (SMP) for their knol.

Best regards
NRao

A very good knol that identifies the scope for knol in educational institutions.

Thanks Gust for various templates in it.

Regards
NRao

Thank you. I started the practice of quickly writing the shorter url in comments to use it in twitter messages. I am not now clear whether giving knol url is better or other short urls are better.

I feel knol url are better for other knol authors to confirm that it is knol only by looking at the url. Otherwise one is not sure what is there under short url. But short urls are certainly useful to communicate in twitter itself when space is limited and for some other activities.

Thank you once again and I shall use this short url and bit.ly.

Hope you are on the lookout for trending knols and whenever you find one from any author, please include it. I do not find time on somedays so do not update this.

Here is little more shorter one. http://bit.ly/a7PaQF

Dear Mak,
Today morning while i was checking the knol it appeared at the directory and i thought after coming from Church i will post a note, by around 1.30 when I was posting the above note that was there. I don't know what happened later, hey Mak, these selections are done by Google algorithm isn't it? is there any human hand involved in it? as far as i know its done by the Google Algorithm.
Just today i read one news at Google Buzz:
"What do you think of the new feature? How much do you value human curation for news?

Google News and Why Human Editors Still Matter


Google News is testing a new “Editor’s Pick” section with publishers, enabling them to select and promote specific content to users."

May be the same is applied here too.
This looks like a very sad development at knol. Once it is awarded how can they take it back? very strange.

Best regards,

Mak,
Ok fine let us wait and watch.
phil

OK
I sent you an email for that account. hope you get it
Sad about this mess at Google

Hope for the best,
MAK

Dear Phil

Where is the award? I do not see any award, did the mangers changed their minds?

Best regards,
MAK

Thank you. Please inform us your popular articles through comments periodically.

wonderful Sir This work

And delighted to my articles here

Appreciation and respect

Dear Gust

Thank you for the information and link.

I agree with your practice and I also leave the search query links wherever possible and appropriate so that the reader can visit the search results and get recent information.

In this case I could not get a straight forward search query so far. I am not good at writing search queries also. My coauthors also have not come out with any.

I gave some search links at the bottom of the knol which I use frequently to identify trending knols.
Every knol identified can be checked by visitors for the page view number. I am writing the pv number by the side of most of the knols.

The purpose of this knol is to provide very quick identification of popular knols very early in the day and also to motivate authors to write very popular knols right on the first day of the posting of the knol.

I would be very happy if I start seeing 10 trending new knols every day. We are coming up to 5 now.

Hello Garry

It is a very good initiative. More knol authors should realize the scope for writing on such events. And such events are better covered by a group of authors. You already assembled a group.

All the best. Hope your knol remains trending knol throughout the this event period.

Thanks Philip,
And thanks for adding it to the list here.
Best,
Garry

Hi Garry,
Congrats,
Very interesting Knol,
Before Cricket occupies the place Indians were very fond of football-- especially we the Keralites and the Bengalees were top in football
I visited the knol, looks very good and looks great going
All the best
regards
phil

Hi Rao,

Excuse me Sir, You didn't answer my question "Is this allowed in the TOS? "?

"TOS" is meaning the "Terms Of Service" by GOOGLE Knol.

Still waiting to get an answer for that?

Thanks for replying honestly ;-)

Best regards,
Gust

Knol help itself advocated it in response to some queries. Right early on knol, I had three disciplines to write on One for Classes 11 and 12, one on religious literature and one on management. I wrote them under three ids. That way visitors will find the required subject knols more easily.

I informed number of multilingual authors to have multiple ids. Now my Telugu language knols are under a different id. Hindi language knols are under a different id. Of course I face problems of opening and closing ids everyday.

Any way I have too many knols written. So having mutliple ids is better for me also to locate knols of separate areas separately. For me it is not issue

Hi Moharram,

I back You up. This is not normal in my point of view and what about the Terms of Service of Knol? Is this allowed in the TOS? Could somebody explain me that, please?

Best regards,
Gust

Hi..

Sorry for entering this discussion, but I find it strange to have multiple accounts! why should one author have multiple accounts? it is going to be misleading..

My personal idea is having one ID and one real account is the Normal

Best regards,
Moharram

I have multiple accounts on knol for various disciplines, languages. I advocated this approach to many authors and knol help also advocated this approach to many people in their queries. In some languages my name appears in that script only.

McNally has replied that knol help will attend to serious issues asap.

I set up the search link for Arabic Knols which are most viewed on the basis of weekly page views. I found one. You can try and locate some more. If you cannot find any, you can give a list of 10 interesting knols. I have written similarly in Hindi and Telugu. I need to write their English names. I reuqest you also to give English titles. That will help readers of this knol to decide whether they want to translate the knol into their language.

I gave link to Randy's knol on translator kit in Knol Author News. It is good that people are watching and some others have said that they will also open similar knol related news knols. Good unless many people open such knols and say good things about knol, knol will not succeed. We started the idea, we should be happy and encourage many others to copy the idea and make knol popular.

Regards
Rao

It is not a simple exercise. What I am doing is from knol home page, taking the search link of most viewed in the week. Then going to individual knols and checked their weekly page views. In this knol above I gave that link for English. You change the language to Arabic and you will get a list of Knols viewed maximum in that week but the page view figures will be cumulative only. Then we have to open the knol and see the WPV.

I hope I make sense. Let me set up the search query for arabic knols myself below English.

Hi Rao

I tried today to get this info about any Arabic Knol having 700 wpv, but it seems that I am using a wrong tool, can you please guide me? That you will be great

Best regards,
MAK

Put in a separate block below the two blocks created already for English WPV based knols.

Thanks.

Hi Rao

Ok, I will add those having 700 wpv

Thanks
MAK

Even I tried, it is not showing. Looks like yet another bug.

Randall Kleinert prepared a knol already. I shall give link of it here later. Now we have to understand instal the button. You try to understand from RK's knol and if required ask him the clarifications and you install it first on a new small knol. If it is successful, you please install on this knol also. It will take some days. But let us learn and do it. I think you are sufficiently computer savvy.

I bought books on HTML and Dynamic HTML in 1999.But as you see, I have now a lot of content to share. Sharing content itself slowly strains me. I cannot go into HTML also. But if it is a must I have the background to go into any programming language. I wrote big programs back in 1979 itself and then 1987 once again.

Congrats for the first 1000 pv
by the way: can we install the translation button to this Knol as well to help everybody to follow up?

and I want to know step by step how to install the translation button, Please

Thanks Rao
Best regards,
MAK

welcome aboard Max

Best regards,
Moharram

Hi Max,
That is fine.
Keep us inform.
Regards
phil

Hi Max, Keep involving.
Good to be with us.
Best
philip

Thank you for the message.

Randomly if you come across any knol having more than 700 page views in a week, please include in this knol. Or give it as a comment. I am going through the searchlink

Most Viewed Knols in a Week


English

sequentially to find such knols. There are 1500 knols in the output to this query and I have to go through all of them to find out 700 weekly page knols. If you try to do it once or twice, you may get an idea of simplifying the process through a different query. Ideas come to us only when you are doing the job in someway or other.

But do anything at your genuine convenience. We need to invite more people as coauthors so that at any time only some can do some activity and others can join when they have time. People can take time off also whenever they want.

Dear PVA

I shall completely set up the knol as far as English language is concerned. It will take some time. May even 15 days to a month. I have to personally visit around 1500 knols.

In the meanwhile I request you to visit every knol, included on our knol as a trending knol and congratulate them. Give the link of this knol, tell them that their knol is a part of the list. Then ask them embed the social media button and give link to your knol.

Please do this activity as per your convenience.

I did the checking of last 24 hours just now and found 3 knols. One in English, One in Arabic and one in Portuguese.

Portuguese author just joined knol. What a good debut. I congratulated her and included her name in knol author news. I agree with you that it is confusing. But you will understand as I explain things once again and even demonstrate. I also do not understand many things on knol. That is why Baskerville and some others criticise my knols. But I say its ok. I am a content based author. I also tried to learn HTML long back. If I concentrate I shall learn all the tricks of scripts etc. But what is more important for me. Research in Management and Industrial Engineering or HTML? I have to go to an international conference in Japan in July and then I have to attend a national conference in Kerala on special invitation. I shall ask tips about Kerala when I finalise my plans.

Regards

Raogaaru, thats fine, here i am bit confused still i will try to do it.
Thanks for sharing
philip

I am motivated by the response shown by the knol community to this knol.

I posted 10 knols on the basis of weekly page views.

Every day if I search 25 knols and post the knols having 700 pv per week we will make the first full list in a week's time. Then every day have to check all the knols one week prior to confirm that they are still trending knols.

I now gave search links for all languages for the recent day. We just have to open those search links in a separate page and assess if any knol is there which will cross 100 in a day. We can do this activity everyday. Once each by each author in a day will show us if we have to make a fresh entry. Then if we have time we can write reviews on these knols. I shall take it up once these lists are fully ready.

I am creating search engine links for finding trending knols of one day - the latest day in all major languages.

I wrote a comment on your knol on social media button. Please monitor your page views and whenever it is a trending knol, please post it here.

We are for all. But if we do not properly follow our knols, whose knols are we going to follow properly?

I hope some authors by themselves point out that their knols are trending knols.

ok fine, keep going, keep inform
thanks
philip

Today I found by chance. But there will be a method and I shall find out and inform you. I am slowly able to find ways to pick up this type of information.

Mr. Max Iskram

Thank you for accepting my request. I sent the invitation. Await your joining on the knol.

Hi, please count on me to be co-author of this knol.
Best Regards. Max

Thanks a lot raogaaru,
I will do this in our future knols to.
Oh MG I am much elated by the words, thank you sooooooooooomuch :-)
regards
philip

For that reason, I shared the information about the button with most of Arabic authors. Some of them stated using it as well.. Thanks Phil and Rao


MAK

Thank you. It is there at both the places. Good.

I thought I shall place the button uniformly in all my knols at the end. After the reading the knol in full if somebody wants to share he will use it. Much more than that it looks safe for me to put there. If any problem is there I can locate and remove the code easily. But where you are there as coauthor, as you are now developing skill in placing it, you can place it at other places.

But there is no limit to my appreciation of you for making us aware of this button. I think it will do a lot of good to knol if many authors recognize its importance.

Hi all,

My apologies to all of you. I didn't want to make any pressure.



You may also delete this whole comment if you wish so.

Best regards,
Gust

Hi Gust,

No apologies among friends.

Best regards,
Moharram

Hi Gust

about Wordle Logo, the idea came to me when I copied the URL of this Knol to Wordle and gave me the logo with author's names and even names of who wrote a comment, so I got the idea of putting the author and co-authors names in the logo, what is wrong in that?

Can't be everything serious like that.. We are not in a war.. I don't want you to feel upset of my reply to you, But I felt under sever pressure and being blamed on simple things

Sorry
Best regards,
Moharram

PLEASE

Please Gust,

Please take it easy and leave it go by anyway, suppose that we need it like this!

How can this affect you?

Please give excuses to others, You are great and my hero, I think you know that.. and I usually follow your ideas.. BUT people are different and We have to accept their differences..

what will happen if Rao left it as it is or changed the settings to "needs to get approved before publishing" May be he wanted to do so BUT not immediately

May be to not show as he is following..

Please Gust be considerable and don't make a lot pressure..

Sorry for saying so, But I can not work under this pressure.. You suggested something, that is it.. it is not an order, it is just a suggestion .... and there is a great different between orders and suggestions

Best regards,
Moharram

OK, I will change it to the previous one
Thanks Rao
MAK

The earlier one was good. The title was really catchy in the earlier design.

Fascinating. Thank You. I am on social media sharing google account. will make a blog entry and twitter entry on the update. Do you have a twitter account?

Dear Rao,

What do you mean by "Block" as you mentioned (Let us post these all time peaks in one block) what is the block?

Thanks
MAK

Dear Rao

That will be great, I will accept the invitation to be with the Team

Thanks a lot
MAK

Dear MAK

I want you also to join as coauthor to point out popular Arabic knols. We all will be happy when more and more knols are popular every day. You will know its contents also and can make one line comment on the contents also.

Keep it up
MAK