Thanks, John. My experience and primary area of activity is with the user guides. Blogging is a bit different, as it allows more of a "personal voice" by the writer. You've described the blog writing style very well.
We try to use a standard writing style in the user guides, but for a blog entry there's a lot more leeway, including which variation of English (US, UK, other) a writer feels most comfortable using. And I agree completely with your final paragraph. Readers of the blog (including others on this team) can use the share links (for Facebook and Twitter) to spread the word outside "official" channels, or share in other ways. BTW, we can add share buttons for other social media networks. --Jean On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 08:36 -0400, John Shabanowitz wrote: > A few good points were made in this thread. I can see we're going to need a > project list. LOL. The expert in this thread about writing for LibO, > documentation, etc is Jean. She has the experience coming from the > OpenOffice.org project. So for all the technical points and how to use the > templates already available I defer to her. > > As for writing in general, it isn't that hard. You talk to your friends, > right? Well writing is just like talking to your friends. Talk to your > friends, they are your audience. Type up your conversation as you are having > it. Afterwards, when it is finished, go over it again. Correct the typos, > spelling errors and grammar. Delete the expletives. Now ask yourself, "Does > it still make sense?; Does it still flow?; Does it sound like you?; Do you > want your name associated with this? That's writing. Marketing is another > matter altogether. Marketing is knowing who you are speaking to. > > I would prefer not to create assignments; you write about this, I'll write > about that, and they can write about the other thing. If there is a part > about LibreOffice that you use alot, a little thing that you had to figure > out how to do that you may do differently in other office suites, write > about that. Write about something that you do, that interests you. The good > thing about blog posts is, they don't have to be long. A paragraph or two > can suffice. OH, there I go again. Suffice, a perfectly good word but is it > appropriate. Always keep an eye to marketing. We still haven't figured out > our audience on the blog. We have few posts and only spam comments so far. > > I agree it might be good to have blog posts listed in the social media. That > is good but not good enough. The people that follow TheDocumentFoundation > and LibreOffice on Twitter and Facebook are the choir. They already know > about us and probably use LibreOffice. We need to get the word out to the > general public. Post about our new blog posts on our own social media pages. > That will increase our visibility. > > *John Shabanowitz > http://libodocs.wordpress.com > We're recruiting, come join us.* > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 3:29 AM, Elliot Turner <[email protected]>wrote: > > > I completely understand that you're busy, John. With that in mind, thanks > > especially for helping me get a foot in the water. I've subscribed to the > > other mailing list and will start figuring out... everything from there. > > > > In the meantime, if there is a member with the time to serve in the > > capacity > > as a mentor I could really use some reading material or direction in order > > to get started. You may contact me directly at [email protected], as > > I'd rather not further clutter this mailing list. Thanks in advance! > > > > ~Tim Elliot Turner > > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
