Time to make your institution’s Knol page?

I missed the launch due to being at EduWeb2008, but this past week, Google launched it’s Knol product.

I can’t tell if Google is trying to compete with Wikipedia here, with community contributions, a set of user-managed pages like Squidoo, or the human-powered search engine Mahalo.

Here’s an example of a Knol page. Knol pages include text, links, pictures, and in the case of this pancakes page, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

As a Knol writer, you can choose what sorts of collaboration you will allow, and also what kind of CC license you want to apply to your Knol.

Looks like it’s time for us higher ed web folks to make a Knol page for our institution before someone else does. I’m going to work on ours today and will update this post once I’ve got a draft completed. Feel free to post links to your Knol page in the comments.

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Written by: Mike | July 25, 2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized 

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One Response to “Time to make your institution’s Knol page?”

  1. Kyle James on July 25th, 2008 4:05 pm

    Hum… interesting. Don’t have time to dig into today, but I’d love to see your finished school site when your done.

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