Learning Through Blogging: Ruby Blogging Benefits

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1. Learning Through Blogging:
   Ruby Blogging Benefits
   Kenji Mori (@morizyune)
   

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2. Who am I?
   • Kenji Mori (@morizyune)
   • Ruby Programmer 4+ years
   • Japanese Tech Blogger
   • https://morizyun.github.io/
   

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3. Working at M3 Inc,.
   • We are hiring! => http://stackoverflow.com/jobs/
   43170/software-engineer-scala-ruby-java-m3-inc
   

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4. Started career & blog in 2012
   • Part-time web programmer in Jan. 2012
   • Tech Blog(https://morizyun.github.io/) in Nov. 2012
   

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5. Current
   • 2.4+ million page views from 2012
   • 1-2 messages from companies / month
   • Lead Tech Engineer at M3(work)
   • Glad to talk here now!(Conference LT Speaker)
   

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6. Perseverance Pays Dividends!
   • Japanese Proverb
   • Three years on a cold
   stone will make the stone
   warm.
   • Updating my blog for 3+
   years made me well known
   in the Japanese Ruby
   Community.
   

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7. Blog as Your Sales Tool
   • Blog => Sales Tool. Helps you and others.
   • Local Memo => Private Tool. Helps only you.
   

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8. Blog as Skill showcase
   • Your blog shows your powerful skills!
   

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9. Blog as Your Motivation Generator
   • Others’ thanks => Motivation to learn new tech
   

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10. • 1) Imagine a keyword which you fill in Google:
    • Someone who has a problem will read my blog, so
    try to help him/her by my blog!
    • 2) Summarise information which you collect:
    • If I collect some information for a topic to solve a
    problem, another engineer may need the information
    too. Summarizing information is useful for everyone.
    How to Increase Page View?
    

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11. Making Presentations
    from Blog
    

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12. • Blog: Information to solve a problem
    • Presentation: knowledge to describe a topic
    Why do a presentation?
    

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13. Teaching = Learning
    • One of the best learning methods is to teach other people
    • Teaching by presentations, teaching by blogging
    • Expecting to teach enhances learning and organization of knowledge in free
    recall of text passages => http://psych.wustl.edu/memory/nestojko.html
    

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14. Workshop with coworkers
    • 5 min "Lighting Talk" per week in workplace
    • You can present your blog articles
    

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15. Feedback & Improve
    • Get others’ know-how
    • Seek a way to improve
    

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16. Finding Your Best Style
    • Find your output style with which you match!
    • Writing a tech blog
    • Making a presentation
    • Contributing OSS
    • etc...
    

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17. Thank you a lot !
    ҵ(^o^)҈
    

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