2008/11/3 Adrian Try <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've recently decided to devote more of my life to writing. Especially > writing about alternative software, including open source software and web > services. Today I've released a new blog, and an updated version of my > website. I hope you find them helpful! > > *Blog: Using A Different Office* > www.adriantry.com > > With a focus on OpenOffice.org and Google Docs, this blog will be full of > thoughts and tutorials and articles about useful alternative office > software. I'm aiming to write here five times a week, with at least one post > a week specifically dealing with OpenOffice.org. > > Today's post describes how I first discovered OpenOffice.org. Tomorrow's > post will explore the value of free software. Next week I will be publishing > a five-part introduction to OpenOffice.org. Please let me know what you > think. I'll remind you next week when Part 1 becomes available. > > If there is anything specific that you think would be helpful for me to > cover, please let me know (here or in the blog comments). If you visit the > blog, please say hello and share your thoughts in the comments. > > *Site: Try Another Angle* > www.tryanotherangle.com > > This site is a slower-growing repository of reference information about free > software and web services. > > The page about OpenOffice.org is found at > http://www.tryanotherangle.org/free-and-open-software/openoffice-org > > This page includes helpful quick reference cards about Writer, Calc and > Impress, and similar cards (by O'Reilly) about Word, Excel and Powerpoint > (2003). By showing Microsoft Office users both cards, I think they will be > surprised about how similar the programs are. It may encourage those > resisting the change to Office 2007 to try out OpenOffice.org instead. > > I hope this post doesn't come across as unwanted spam. I genuinely want to > help the OpenOffice.org community, and help people in general become more > aware of open source software. > > Adrian Try > www.adriantry.com > www.tryanotherangle.org >
Hello Adrian. I wish you the best of luck with your new blog. I am subscribing to the RSS feed and will try to keep up with your posts if they are high quality (correct sentences structure, spelling, grammar, useful on-topic content). On this mailing list and most others, unsolicited service promotion is considered spam. Therefore, while your first post introducing the blog to us is fine, please do not post here updating us about your blog. That is what your RSS feed is for, and those who want it will subscribe. Don't be discouraged if you have few subscribers for the first few months, that is normal. Note that you _can_ promote your blog on the Open Office list when it is relevant to user's questions. For instance, if you have a blog post about defining tables in Writer, and a poster asks how to define tables in Writer, then a mention of your blog with a link is very, very welcome and appreciated. It is good for you and good for the community. Therefore, I suggest to you to review the past few months' worth of messages, identify which topics are most frequently asked, and to write about them. Then, when they inevitably come up again, you can point the poster to your relevant blog post. Thanks, and good luck! -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü
