Hi again :) Sorry for double-post. Dennis, don't worry if you don't have time to develop the WordPress space. It has never really been meant as a high-activity place as it's a side-issue for the documentation team. It would be nice if more people posted things there. Sometimes people write long mails to the mailing list that would be good as articles imo.
Regards from Tom :) ----- Original Message ---- > From: Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tue, 28 June, 2011 7:29:55 > Subject: RE: [libreoffice-documentation] Where have all the bloggers gone? > > 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 > > > -- > 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 > -- 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
