Online Content Treasure Hunt

July 17, 2013

Don't you love that feeling when you put your hands in your pocket and to your surprise you find dollar bills tucked away that you didn't know you had? Well, this column aims to give you that feeling about www.ControlGlobal.com.

As your senior digital editor, I know this site inside and out. I know the secret passages to getting our premium content and the hidden corners of the process automation web where lots of hidden automation files await you.

Don't you love that feeling when you put your hands in your pocket and to your surprise you find dollar bills tucked away that you didn't know you had? Well, this column aims to give you that feeling about www.ControlGlobal.com.

As your senior digital editor, I know this site inside and out. I know the secret passages to getting our premium content and the hidden corners of the process automation web where lots of hidden automation files await you.

If you are looking from day-to-day industry news, you need to stop by our Industry News library. There you won't miss a beat about the latest press releases and other important information we put at your fingertips.

If you don't have time to browse through our library, you can always subscribe to our industry news RSS feed. Here is a direct link. When you subscribe, at the end of each day, you'll get an email letting you know of the latest news posted on our site.

For our site visitors who love to listen to industry expert interviews, we have the Process Automation Podcast Series library. Every month, our editors get together with an ARC Advisory Group analyst and go over the current cover story. Their conversations and expert analysis gets recorded and presented to you in a format that is easy to listen to.

If you have an iTunes account or own an iPod, iPhone or Ipad you can access these same podcasts via your mobile device or desktop. You can visit our Process Automation Podcast Series library on iTunes and download our podcasts free of charge.

If you enjoy reading the Sunday newspaper because of its extensive cartoons section, know that www.ControlGlobal.com offers you a comics section of our own. We call it "Out of Control Cartoons." Visit www.controlglobal.com/extras/OutofControlCartoons.html and get access the light side of the trials and tribulations of life as a process engineer as sketched by Control's resident cartoonist Ted Williams.

When it comes to blogs, our site not only has five blogs – SoundOff!, Unfettered, Control Talk Blog, Manufacturing 2020 and The Great Kandusky – but we also list other blogs that we love to follow.

Visit any of our in-house blogs and see our Blog Roll list on the right-hand column. There we give you links to other blogs such as ABB's Process Automation Insights Blog, Charlie Fialkowski's Burner Management Blog, Jim Cahill's Blog, Modeling and Control Blog and S88 Builder Construction Blog, among others.

I hope you enjoy discovering these not-so-hidden treasures on our site and browse some more to uncover many more.

Katherine Bonfante is senior digital editor for Control and ControlDesign.

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