Google has recently launched a new concept: Knols - little units of knowledge. The official definition from the Knol homepage: “A knol is an authoritative article about a specific topic.” Well, there you go!
For all of my writerly friends out there, this is good news. This is your chance to share the knowledge you’ve gleaned [...]

Many of the free Google services I mention on this site require you to have a Google Account. I highly recommend this — it’s free and easy!
What are the benefits?

You get a Gmail account - this is a fantastic way to read email that’s part of a “loop” because it groups the messages by conversation.
You [...]

After you’ve built a website, you’ll want to see how many visits you’re receiving. With Google Analytics, you can do that (and much more!) for free! Google Analytics works by giving you a little bit of web code that you install on each of your website pages. Each time someone visits your site, that code [...]

If you have several blogs that you read on a daily basis, you may want to use a Feed Reader to view them all in one place. A Feed Reader can also be called an Aggregator or an RSS Reader. They all mean the same thing. (If you want to know more about RSS Feeds, [...]

You can use Google Alerts to keep track of yourself, an agent, an editor, your RWA chapter…you get the idea. Basically, anything that you can search for in Google can be set up as an Alert. Instead of YOU going to GOOGLE to keep tabs on something, let GOOGLE come to YOU!

Go to www.google.com/alerts
Enter [...]