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PLANTSERVICES.COM Step into the blogosphere How our two new blogs can help you do a better job KEN SCHNEPF I n the past month, PlantServices.com has added two 2. Are we less safe? new blogs to the blogosphere. What a great new word I have to wonder and worry about the vast number of people – blogosphere. And yes, according to dictionary.com, it who never receive any formal hazard awareness instruction really is a word. It means what I’m sure you think it means – people who spend their whole working lives in oﬃces – the universe of blogs. While Wikipedia and Amazon-like like mine where workplace safety hazards are never given customer rating systems have received their share of notoriety a thought beyond desk-chair adjustments and keyboardand copycats, I believe that blogs have been the vehicle that’s ing ergonomics (well, maybe the occasional gun-toting, redriving the audience participation of Web 2.0. It’s a simple venge-seeking reader or former editor…). formula, really, where the blogger posts a thought, and the visitor responds. And unlike web forums, 3. Labor Day hangover where the conversation is usually dominated On Monday, I repeatedly heard and read by a select few, it’s likely that your thought is about how U.S. workers are the most producIt’s likely that going to be personally addressed by exactly the tive in the world — generating about $64,000 your thought person you were aiming to answer it. apiece in goods and services, some 15% ahead is going to PlantServices.com’s entry into blogging of anyone else including Europe’s best, acbe addressed wasn’t rushed. After all, blogs have been cording to an International Labor Organizaaround for quite some time and we just entered tion report issued that day. personally by the fray in August. For a long time, PlantSerWorking more hours explains part of the exactly the vices.com has served as a portal where you higher output, but not all of it. e reports person you could get our published material in a digiI heard credited the rest to American’s ”tenwere aiming to dency to embrace new technology” and its potal version. at has dramatically improved. PlantServices.com is now a place where you tential for increasing productivity. “Hmmm,” answer it. can access a variety of articles, white papers, I thought news items, products, webcasts, podcasts, video and more than you’d ever see in the print edition. 4. Tips to improve reliability via solid data management Further, it’s a place where you’re encouraged to share your Technological advances relating to how asset managers capthoughts. PlantServices.com is so open to your contributions, ture, organize, and use asset related data is, without a doubt, we launched a wiki speciﬁcally so you’d have a place where the most important advance that we have made within the 20 you write the copy (www.PlantServices.com/energy_wiki). years that I have been consulting in this area. e implicais month, I encourage you to visit our two new blogs tions of this are immense and it has the ability to permanent– Plant Performance (www.PlantServices.com/plantperfor ly change how companies manage their physical asset base. mance) and Reliability Tips (www.PlantServices.com/reli abilitytips) – and enter into a conversation with our authors. PlantServices.com has big plans to expand its stamp on Here’s what they’re talking about: the blogosphere, with more blogs coming over the next few months. Since we put these out there for your use, we’d sure 1. Shortsighted boss like to hear what you think, so please e-mail me at the adBeing an editor, I no longer get to experience plant-ﬂoor dress at the bottom of this column, or just go ahead and refrustrations in person. So I appreciate the insight we get spond to this blog post (www.PlantServices.com/onblogs). when any of you write or call with your stories. An anecdote And if you know ony other great industrial maintenance, relithat seems everyday and even uninteresting to you can help ability or asset management blogs out there, please share. us keep the right mindset and guide our coverage to your best advantage. Meanwhile, here’s an editor’s story… E-mail Senior Web Editor Michael Ermitage at mermitage@putman.net. O .PLANTSERVICES. 13 http://www.PlantServices.com http://www.PlantServices.com http://www.dictionary.com http://www.PlantServices.com http://www.PlantServices.com http://www.PlantServices.com http://www.PlantServices.com http://www.PlantServices.com http://www.PlantServices.com/energy_wiki http://www.PlantServices.com/plantperformance http://www.PlantServices.com/plantperformance http://www.PlantServices.com/reliabilitytips http://www.PlantServices.com http://www.PlantServices.com/reliabilitytips http://www.PlantServices.com/onblogs http://www.PlantServices.com

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Plant Services - October 2007 Contents Monetize It Letters Step into the Blogosphere What it Takes to be a Leader Up and Running Crisis Corner What Works From the Summit Treat Them Right Access Control Out of the Woods Show Me, Don't Guess Condition Assessment Made Easy The Air Above the Floor Power to the Prime Movers In the Trenches Illuminating Maintenance

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