Fwd: Alumni weblinks to the University

[Thashika Rupasinghe]

Dear All,

FYI 

Thanks
-Thashika

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From: "Chamli Pushpakumara" <cha...@kln.ac.lk>
To: "Dr. (Ms.) Annista Wijayanayake" <an...@kln.ac.lk>, "Thashika Rupasinghe" <thas...@kln.ac.lk>
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2015 9:01:17 AM
Subject: Alumni weblinks to the University

Dear Annista/Thashika

Could you please forward this to the mailing lists you have access to.

Thanks

Chamli

Dear alumni of the Department of Industrial Management

Hope you all are keeping well.

We are writing this mail to ask for some help for the university. There is a ranking system called Webometrics, and according to its rankings University of Kelaniya is in the 4th position in Sri Lanka (http://www.webometrics.info/en/Asia/Sri%20Lanka). World ranking is 3087, though! Even though this is not highly recognized as a ranking system like Times Ratings in UK, this is fairly accepted in this region. It uses the dissemination of knowledge through the web as a means of evaluating the contribution of the university to different stakeholders.

One of the major factors used to evaluate a university under this system is the number of web links it has got from outside websites(backlinks). The idea is that if a university website is rich in resources interested people will create links to that, for example for research. University of Oxford, for example, has more than 6 million back links whereas UoK has only about 134,000.

University is now requesting its alumni to create backlinks to our university site (www.kln.ac.lk) from their personal/official webpages, as most of the alumni are currently holding very high positions in all parts of the world.

University has created the attached presentation to take this message to the alumni.

We would like to request you to add a link to university site (www.kln.ac.lk) or the department site (www.mit.kln.ac.lk) from your webpages. Once you have done that  you may send your URL to cha...@kln.ac.lk for our information, though it is not compulsory .

Hope you will respond positively for this request from the university.

Thanks

Chamli Pushpakumara

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Chamli Pushpakumara, PhD
Head, Department of Industrial Management
Director, ICT Management and Administration Centre
University of Kelaniya
Kelaniya
Sri Lanka
Tel: +94 11 2903282

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Chamli Pushpakumara, PhD
Head, Department of Industrial Management
University of Kelaniya
Kelaniya
Sri Lanka
Tel: +94 11 2903282