Author: Draft.dev
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The Draft.dev Technical Blogging Style Guide
As your blog grows and you get more writers to contribute, you need to build documents and processes to help you maintain high quality and consistent style. To serve this goal, you should create a style guide to help writers and editors stay on the same page. Generally, a style guide includes expectations for your…
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How to Create a Technical Writing Rubric
Hiring is always hard, but the more specialized your hire is, the harder it will be to fulfill. If you’re managing a technical blog and you want to stop writing everything yourself, you’ll need to recruit and hire technical writers to help you out. While traditionally used in education, rubrics are a fantastic tool for…
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The Best PHP Blogs
PHP is one of the most commonly used programming languages for web development, so I set out to find the best PHP blogs actively publishing content today. Each of these sites demonstrates technical expertise, is relatively easy to comprehend, publishes content consistently, and has stood the test of time. During this process, I used a…
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How to Create a Technical Content Plan
There are two mistakes that most companies make when they decide to pursue technical content marketing: I recently wrote about how I recommend starting with a checklist to promote your blog posts. While I could say more, I’m going to focus on the first problem: creating a technical content plan. What is a Content Plan?…
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The Big Blog Promotion Checklist
The #1 mistake new writers and blog managers make is failing to share their work. Creating great technical content takes time, but without adequate promotion, nobody’s going to read it. Writing a fantastic, in-depth tutorial and then posting it once to your Twitter account is unlikely to yield results, but that’s what 90% of writers…
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How to Find and Motivate Writers for Your Blog
Most technical blogs have a surprisingly small staff, and many of the most prolific ones rely on contributions from freelancers or volunteer contributors. If you’re just starting out, you might wonder what options you have for finding and motivating writers for your technical blog. Option 1: Write everything yourself You can’t do everything, and if…
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The 3 Questions You Should Ask Before Starting a Technical Blog
The best technical blogs have a clear audience and defined goals. Today, I’m going to share the three questions I ask every client I work with at Draft: Q1: Why are you writing? I don’t know why I started writing. I don’t know why anybody does it. Maybe they’re bored, or failures at something else.…