KnowledgeOman.com's Behind The Scenes

Last weekend was very hectic, I was working, alongside the other columnists and executives of KnowledgeOman.com (KO), on the Homepage Update and also working on the Articles that I am supposed to publish. Thursday and Friday was spent on nothing but that and that's why I didn't post anything here in the last couple of days (not that I am using it as an excuse).

In the past, I used to write about the posts that I was personally involved in publishing on KO's Home Page but I thought I would start a new thing here in BeInOman.com. Every Saturday, I am going to share with you some of KO's Home Page articles and the effort that went behind it, behind the scenes, if you will.

This week was a bit different than others because this week, Tariq left for vacation and he is no longer responsible of making sure that all of the Home Page updates are ready to be published and all. Instead, this week, Mohammed Al Tamami who is the content strategist for KnowledgeOman.com was fully in charge. Tamami had the content team, which includes me, to come over his place in order to brainstorm and sort things out. We did that on Thursday at about 3pm and I went back home at about 12:30am. During that time, we've discussed the content for the coming weeks and we also came up with this new concept on the Home Page.

If you haven't noticed yet, the Home Page now has more columnists and is divided by segments. Each segment has it's own banner with a picture of the person in charge of that segment. These segments are 'Hot News' which will cover some of the latest IT news covered by the media and Tamami himself will be in charge of it, 'City Talks' which will be covering all of the latest events in town and will have interviews with people who are making a difference in the Sultanate and I will be in charge of that, 'Knowledge Lebre' which will talk about some of the IT related concepts that many of us is not too familiar about and Qusai Al Shidi will be in charge of that and last but not least, 'Product Review' which by the name of it suggests that we will be talking about some of the hottest gadgets and reviewing it and Tommy Bosco is in charge of that.

Luckily, most of the content was ready by that time but we didn't have the banners ready yet and so we spent lots of time on it still didn't get the results that we wanted. This might mean that the banners will be changing next week.
Another problem was that we had a KO gathering the day before and I was supposed to be the one who creates the video and guess what, it wasn't created. I thought I would come back home and start working on it but it was too late and I was too tired so I went to sleep. I woke up the next morning at about 10am and started working on it until about 7pm, that's when I finished it, but after trying to upload it, I started facing some trouble. I spent the next 4 hours trying to upload it until about 11:30 and that's when I was officially ready to publish.
All of the publishing took place at 12am, Saturday. And we are set to go.

I must admit, the Home Page looks much better than it did before. It is much more colorful, filled with content and has some really interesting topics. I can only say that, we all put in some serious effort and we should all be proud.

For your pleasure, here is the video created from the gathering: