The Importance of Blogging to the Maker/DIY Community

My talk from WordCamp Milwaukee 2013.

Transcript

1. The Importance
   of Blogging to the
   Maker/DIY Community
   Pete Prodoehl
   
   RasterWeb!
   

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2. Who Am I?
   #hacker #maker #publisher #blogger
   #web #photo #video #art #design
   #diy #barcamp #makerspace
   #hackerspace #community #burrito
   #PeteProdoehl
   

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3. http://rasterweb.net/raster/
   Pete Prodoehl
   RasterWeb!
   Blogging since 1997.
   #old
   

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4. The Maker Movement
   The Maker Movement and
   the growing world of DIY
   both promote “creating”
   things...
   #make
   

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7. Digital Sharecropping
   The folks at Facebook, and Tumblr,
   and Google+, and Pinterest would
   LIKE LOVE for you to share your
   content there... for FREE!
   Out of the goodness of their hearts, right?
   #ugc
   

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8. Thanks!
   but no thanks...
   sort of.
   

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9. Making & Sharing
   “After you make something
   awesome, you're not done...
   you have to share it with the
   world. That's just as important.”
   #love
   

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10. Where to Share?
    #put
    •Instructables
    •Make: Projects
    •YouTube(!?)
    •Radio Shack DIY
    

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11. Or Just Maybe...
    #own
    •Your Own Damn Blog!
    

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12. Advantages
    #own
    •You control it
    •You own it
    

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13. Disadvantages
    #own
    •You control it
    •You own it
    

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14. Advantages
    #own
    •It won’t be sold
    •It won’t be shut down
    •It can (easily) last 15 or more years
    •It’s not sharecropping
    •Credibility
    

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17. Disadvantages
    #work
    •It’s work
    •It may cost money
    •It’s work
    •(Did I mention it’s work?)
    

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18. Digital Sharecropping
    The folks at Facebook, and Tumblr,
    and Google+, and Pinterest would
    LIKE LOVE for you to share your
    content there... for FREE!
    Go for it!
    #win
    

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19. RSS IS
    DEAD!
    btw...
    

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21. Google Reader
    IS DEAD!
    (Google Reader is not RSS.)
    

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22. Where (else) to Share?
    #put
    •Make Blog
    •Adafruit Blog (and G+)
    •Hackaday (Blog)
    •Flickr
    •Thingiverse
    

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23. We are Makers!
    #boom
    “After you make something
    awesome, you're not done...
    you have to share it with the
    world. That's just as important.”
    

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25. Thanks!
    [YOUR NAME HERE]
    The Importance
    of Blogging to the
    Maker/DIY Community
    Pete Prodoehl
    
    RasterWeb!
    

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