Plant Services - August 2007 - (Page 9) FROM THE EDITOR Come and get us Three new ways to let us have a piece of your mind I Services.com/wikis/best_practices_energy. We’ll keep stocksn’t it great to feel needed? To know that someone wants ing this feature with expert knowledge and references, but to hear what you have to say, values your knowledge and the biggest part of its value will be advice based on practical, experience, and could really use your advice? real-world experience and practices discovered, tested and I just welcomed my 53rd birthday, so it’s been quite a added by people like you. while since the last time a pretty stranger gave me a second We also are eager to start and stock wikis on the other glance. But I’m enjoying the fact that I’ve developed a reatopics where you’d find that kind of information to be sonably solid grip on how my part of the world works, and most valuable, so let me or Michael know what you want that I have the opportunity to share what I know to help to see. And if you decide to be a regular contributor, it and guide others. would be great if you would drop me a line telling who Mine is right up there with the average age of the people you are and why you’re doing it, so I can get a better unwho do the work we cover in Plant Services (at least the ones derstanding of how Web 2.0 fits into your world. who respond to surveys). Some of you are much younger, A wiki isn’t a place to air an opinion or many are even gnarlier, but we believe every to start or promulgate a debate. If someone one of you knows some things that would be very interesting and helpful to us and your felIts value will be describes the reasons why global warming is a farce and you don’t agree, please just low plant professionals. advice based add the solid facts that support your underSo, this month I’m proud to announce three on practical, standing. The place to opine is our second new ways you can clue us in or share the exreal-world Web 2.0 option, the Plant Performance periences and wisdom you’ve gathered on your Web log (“blog”). We’re putting this much industrial odyssey with your peers. experience maligned and abused concept to good use Using either of the first two also makes and practices – check it out at www.PlantServices.com/ you an official citizen of the cool new world discovered, plantperformance. You won’t regret it and of “Web 2.0.” (The third is for people who’d tested and if you do, the next step is obvious. prefer another approach.) Those of us who auFinally, you’ve always been welcome to tomatically reject buzzwords might not know added by people call me with your thoughts and suggesthat Web 2.0 is an expression used by Weblike you. tions at the number below. Now, for those nerds to refer to the Web they’re obsessed who’d like to take a break from the keywith, as opposed to the same old Web we’ve board and just pick up the phone without the hassle all been using for more than a decade now. More formally, of a conversation, we have activated a comment line it’s the second generation of the Web, consisting of Webwhere you can simply leave a message – we guaranbased communities and hosted services. “User interaction tee no one will answer. Call (630) 467-1301 ext. 458, and user-generated content are the hallmarks of Web 2.0,” listen to our recorded instructions and let us have it. proponents say. Much like your favorite salespeople, they Anything goes, but you’re welcome to start with your bombard my in-box with messages exhorting me and Plant thoughts about Web 2.0, wikis and blogs. Services to embrace Web 2.0 and telling me if we don’t, we can expect to go the way of the dodo bird. We love it when you interact, and appreciate every bit of good help we can get with generating content, so if you want Web 2.0, we give you Web 2.0. Our centerpiece PAUL STUDEBAKER, CMRP and greatest adventure to date is our new Best Practices EDITOR IN CHIEF – Energy Wiki, described in detail by Senior Web Edipstudebaker@putman.net tor Michael Ermitage on page 13 and found at www.Plant (630) 467-1300 ext. 433 www.PLANTSERVICES.com August 2007 http://www.plantservices.com/voices/from_the_editor.html http://www.PlantServices.com/wikis/best_practices_energy http://www.plantservices.com/plantperformance http://www.plantservices.com/plantperformance http://www.PlantServices.com/wikis/best_practices_energy http://www.PLANTSERVICES.com
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