Is this it? <http://libodocs.wordpress.com/>

It is in a little-known place, I think.

 - Dennis

OK, brain dump.  Worth less than what you paid for it.  Prego, (just watched 
Stealing Beauty and missing Tuscany).


Alas, the RSS feed does not do full posts.  Can you change that?  There are 
folks like myself who won't subscribe to teaser-RSS feeds: It makes us work too 
hard.  Other folks don't want full posts.  You might need to offer different 
buttons for people to choose their preferred feed.  (I don't know how easy it 
is to get WordPress to do those things.)  

In the two months, there have been 9 posts and two comments.  You've got more 
categories than posts so far!

Although I am a very negligent blog poster, I think that not posting more 
frequently is a problem if you want more attention.  I don't know who the 
posters are, I see the generic Team poster and 3 named contributors, all with 
one apiece except for Jean.  There are no links to author profiles from the 
post timestamps.  That makes the blog too one-way.

But maybe you want to figure out what people would be looking for that you have 
to offer, beside announcements.  I'm guessing.  And what relationship are you 
out to establish.  Blogs are conversational.  Not fragments of user manuals.  
The voice is different.  I have seen books written on a blog, but this isn't 
that.

For example, explain the way that the styles dialogs work and what the 
categories are, in small short articles in a series.  And screen shots, lots of 
screen shots.  Or just point out where the Page Layout option is and what is 
there, what can be controlled.

I have a question already - can I have a different layout for each sheet of a 
spreadsheet document, and can each sheet have different headers and footers.  
The Page Preview is scary, having me think that I am stuck with the one, so I 
don't want to try making headers over different pages and find out that is not 
what I got.  There is no document preview print preview that I can find, only 
single page preview.  How do I preview the document?
  Stuff like that. And more human presence.  What do you struggle with using it 
yourself and figuring out how to document it.  What is your most memorable 
duhh... moment.

I suspect writers may be reluctant bloggers, having to do with how precious the 
words are regarded, perhaps.  Yet some of the greatest blogs I read are by 
authors and screen writers.  But they talk about their experience, they don't 
put their writing on the blog unless there is some story they have to tell 
about something in their work or struggling or dealing with the publishing 
process, movie studios, publishers and having to do book tours, etc.  What's 
your drama around documenting LibreOffice?

Also, because this is where your audience is, things that folks stumble on when 
it isn't like Word or Excel or PowerPoint, and how to learn around in Libre 
Office instead.

Basta!  Finito.  orcmid



-----Original Message-----
From: Jean Hollis Weber [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 19:50
To: LibreOffice Documentation
Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] Where have all the bloggers gone?

So, we started a blog with enthusiasm, and a few people contributed
fairly early on, and then... nothing except my publication announcements
and two other posts from me. So it goes...

--Jean


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