Comments on: Knol Article Touting Blackbaud Now Unpublished

By: Allan Benamer

Allan Benamer — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:59:30 +0000

Awesome! Thanks for doing it the right way. Readers, here is Timothy Chou's official Knol biography.

By: Timothy Chou

Timothy Chou — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:40:07 +0000

Alan – pilot error – biographical information is now published.

By: Allan Benamer

Allan Benamer — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 06:10:25 +0000

Hi there, Timothy. I'm glad the article is back and it looks like there's more information and charts so that's good. However, you still haven't filled in the biographical details for yourself. I believe that confuses readers to no end and in fact, one of the commenters to your Knol post actually accused you of plagiarizing what seems to be your own book. Let's make your position as a Blackbaud director and your previous professional ties more clear so that this confusion will lessen in the future. I implore you to add your biographical information to your Knol post so that authorial intent can be better understood.

By: Timothy Chou

Timothy Chou — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:57:21 +0000

To the author. I was a beta user of Knol over 6 months ago and tried out an early version of the software with some content. I was unaware that they made all of the knols public until a week or so ago. I took the article down to clean it up, format, etc. Please let your readers know the full article is back up.

By: Peter Gulka

Peter Gulka — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:25:48 +0000

oops… fake HTML-pwned.

*bows deeply*

By: Peter Gulka

Peter Gulka — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:25:15 +0000

By: Allan Benamer

Allan Benamer — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:33:48 +0000

@Judi Sohn: My only wish was to get the attribution right but hey, it’s just smart to tell companies that serve our sector that we (the user community) aren’t totally asleep at the switches…

@Peter Gulka: ZOMG! Peter, I hereby nominate you as the “Maker of the Best Zinger on the Non-Profit Tech Blog”!

By: Peter Gulka

Peter Gulka — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:16:47 +0000

Come now. There never was a Knol. We’ve always been at war with Eurasia

By: Judi Sohn

Judi Sohn — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:12:23 +0000

Good for you, Allan. I totally agree with you that the issue wasn’t whether or not Blackbaud is a SaaS provider, it was that the author did not disclose his relationship with the companies he was writing about. Google is obviously trying to get around this by pushing people to verify their identify on Knol, but it’s always good when the user community sees conflicts like this and exposes them.