Developing Blog Posts for Devs by Jeca Armstrong

Blogging: it helps the community, improves your programming, demonstrates your expertise, helps you land your next job - what isn't there to love?

By the end of this meetup, you will:
- Generate 20+ topics
- Outline and draft a blog post
- Get feedback from peers

Workshop given to the NYC chapter of Write/Speak/Code: http://www.meetup.com/Write-Speak-Code-NYC/ and slides published with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Transcript

1. @WSCNewYorkCity #wscmeetup Welcome @WSCNewYorkCity #wscmeetup facebook . com/groups/writespeakcodenyc
2. Overview ✤ Why we blog ✤ Topic generation ✤ Outlining #wscmeetup @WSCNewYorkCity ✤ Write! ✤ Edit & share ✤ Follow up
3. @WSCNewYorkCity #wscmeetup Why blog?
4. Help others ✤ Make things easier for others ✤ Practice talking about your knowledge ✤ Connect with others ✤ Everyone has knowledge that other people need #wscmeetup @WSCNewYorkCity
5. @WSCNewYorkCity #wscmeetup Find a Buddy!
6. @WSCNewYorkCity #wscmeetup 5 minutes. 20 topics. ✤ Start your ongoing list!
7. Types of Topics ✤ How to do/fix this ✤ We do X & it works because.. ✤ Fave tool/technique/library ✤ Bad advice for beginners #wscmeetup @WSCNewYorkCity ✤ Intro to X technology ✤ Process ✤ Philosophy ✤ Success Story
8. @WSCNewYorkCity #wscmeetup Choose 1 topic
9. @WSCNewYorkCity #wscmeetup Outline/summarize in 10 words
10. @WSCNewYorkCity #wscmeetup Write!
11. Tips for editing ✤ Cut 20% ✤ Humanize/add a story ✤ Expand/examples ✤ Find main points & reorganize ✤ Listicle? How-to? #wscmeetup @WSCNewYorkCity ✤ Scanability: ✤ Bullet points ✤ Subheadings ✤ Bold ✤ Whitespace
12. @WSCNewYorkCity #wscmeetup Share/feedback
13. What’s next? ✤ 1 month ✤ 6 months ✤ 1 year #wscmeetup @WSCNewYorkCity facebook .com/groups/writespeakcodenyc