SSW Rules to Better Blogs

At SSW we encourage our employees to actively keep blogs about their achievements, discoveries, interests, and ideas. The biggest problem about putting up an article is that once it's up there its there for the world to see. Do you express yourself properly in blog posts?

This set of rules aims to help you efficiently write clear, effective blogging articles. In some cases you might be interested in seeing our Rules to Better Technical Documentation for comments on how best to express your techical problems.

Do you agree with them all? Are we missing some? Email me your tips, thoughts or arguments.  Let me know what you think.

1. Are you still UI aware?

   http://www.useit.com/alertbox/weblogs.html

2. Do you know that 'Factual Content is King'?

   It is easy to think that 'content is king', that is a well known quote. But Rupert Murdoch said it better "factual content is king" so:
   * Fix up your mistakes, and
   * Strike through content that is now been superseded and put a comment eg. "This is now not an issue as it was fixed up in TFS SP1"
   

3. Do you post all useful internal emails to the Company Blog?

   Most companies include intelligent people who make some relevant and useful points for the greater community or industry, while writing internal emails. Those emails should be published to the company blog for the following reasons:
   1. It will provide great content for Google to index
   2. Raise the profile of your company around the topics discussed
   3. Show the industry that you have intelligent and forward thinking staff

Acknowledgements

Adam Cogan
Andrew Weaver