YOU ARE THE AUTHOR - Write to SLEN

NEW BLOGS: Share Ideas, Ask Questions, Get Answers - Collaborate

Dear IESL Colleagues,

During past few months, you have been posting questions and thoughts to the President's Blog that is available on our website (www.iesl.lk)

We have taken this success further and have opened few other blogs to enhance collaboration among fellow engineers. During our visits to Provincial Councils and the Australian Chapter, many requested forums to discuss and share.  All these blogs including the President's blog are now listed under a drop down menu on our website (top menu bar)


IMPORTANT: These new blogs are "moderated" ones, too. However, in the new ones, members can initiate fresh "postings" (topics, questions, ideas etc.) apart from "commenting" on "published postings".  How to "post" is clearly given in the "Instruction" box. Therefore, go ahead an initiate new topic (postings) apart from commenting on others.

These blogs will flourish if you share and collaborate with others. So, not only you should contribute, but also must promote in every possible way to attract other contributors. Sooner than you think, they will become "transparent" mechanisms to find answers, express ideas, know what is going on related to important IESL initiatives, etc.

Special notes must be made about three of the new blogs.

"You are the Author - Write to SLEN": this is the blog where you can write articles etc. to be selected for SLEN. IESL Editor is moderating this blog. Your writings will be published online anyway.

"Share Insights about Obtaining Charter": this is your place to share experiences or ask for tips about becoming a CEng. Again, it’s the members who will have to do that although at times an official of IESL too could contribute.

"Ratify Engineering Council Act": if one reads the President's Blog, there's plenty of evidence to indicate that this is a need of the hour. You can ask, express, your concerns about this long overdue initiative and its current status. Get your voice out there.

The other blogs are professional area specific - water, energy, manufacturing, management, IT. This is where you can ask questions or share ideas. Later we will introduce some more. Spread the news among sectional committees. We don't plan to open blogs by sectional committees. For example, many manufacturing disciplines can use "Excellence in Manufacturing". Many civil engineers can use "Better

Infrastructure Development"

Let's grow together. Happy Blogging.

Arjuna Manamperi

Chairman

IESL - ICT Committee