Dennis, thanks for the comments. Much appreciated! I'm not sure how much if any control we have over the RSS feed at Wordpress.com; someone with the time to do it needs to look into that.
I agree with almost all you've said. We had some discussion about what topics to include, how often to post, etc (most of which you've summarised very well; good to have that reinforcement), but as with most projects, not enough people to do the work. We hadn't thought about the relationships angle, providing links to author profiles etc. Not sure whether most of us would feel comfortable about that, as it could be interpreted as self-promotion rather than promoting the Docs team and LibreOffice itself. Actually the blog started out for announcements, then we thought to do tips and other explanations. Anyway, thanks again for the feedback. I just hope we can build on it. --Jean On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 23:29 -0700, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > 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 -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
