Webs’ Random Ideas

I am kinda giddy as I just created and published my first Knol. It’s not too big of a deal as it was basically a post I had on my website already. But oh well, at least it’s out there.

Creating the Knol was super easy. You get a beautiful WYSIWIG editor that allows you to start typing. And if you’re like me you can go to the upper right corner and click the link for HTML to edit to your heart’s desire. Pretty nifty. Bringing the HTML from my blog was easy, I just had to add the Paragraph and Line Break Tags. Also, if you use headers in your Knol, Google will create a ToC (table of contents) for you.

You can save your work at anytime and publish using the link on the right when ready. You can also change the shared settings and many other settings too, such as copyright protection. I must say Google’s interface beats the crap out of MediaWiki hands down.

I created my Knol as part of a contest Google has called “Knol for Dummies.com”. The idea is to create a How To you think could help someone. If you click on the link there and then click to enter the contest you will get to the page that allows you to create your Knol. And Google will already have the Knol set for the contest.

So go out there and try to beat me! If you leave a comment here about the Knol you create I promise I will go out and read yours and rate it for you too! Share the knowledge love!