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<header class="page-header"><div class="page-meta">2021-12-31, <span class='acr'>TEC</span></div>
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<h1 class="title">December 2021</h1>
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<p class="subtitle" role="doc-subtitle">Looking back on my first year of blogging</p>
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Just over eight months ago, I kicked off <i>This Month in Org</i> with an emphatic
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announcement of the blog’s in the form of a <a href="2021-04-26-Welcome.html">Welcome</a> post. If you haven’t
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guessed, this is the first “blog post” I’ve ever written. In that <i>welcome</i> post,
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I gave my motivation for starting the blog — essentially to bridge a perceived
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gap in information sources between a subscription to the Org project mailing
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list, and nothing.
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That is why I thought this blog should exist, but until now I have neglected to
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mention what <i>I</i> want to accomplish with it. By starting <i>TMiO</i> I hoped to:
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<li>Engage more people with the improvements being made to Org<sup><a id="fnr.1" class="footref" href="#fn.1" role="doc-backlink">1</a></sup>.</li>
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<li>Highlight some of the great work being done by Org<sup><a id="fnr.1.100" class="footref" href="#fn.1" role="doc-backlink">1</a></sup> contributors.</li>
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<li>Encourage more people to consider contributing to Org<sup><a id="fnr.1.100" class="footref" href="#fn.1" role="doc-backlink">1</a></sup>.</li>
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<li>Foster a stronger sense of an Org<sup><a id="fnr.1.100" class="footref" href="#fn.1" role="doc-backlink">1</a></sup> community, outside the mailing list.</li>
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Since then, I’ve effused about Org to the tune of around ten thousand words. We
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started off with a fairly dry recount recent changes, which (after initial
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feedback) has shifted slightly to try to give more context on the improvements
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and how they may be used. In June I even went as far as to make the majority of
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the post about pre-existing features (writing Org for LaTeX).
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This change has been made to:
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<li>Try to make the blog posts a little more interesting, and less tedious.</li>
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<li>Potentially introduce readers to nice features of Org they weren’t aware of before.</li>
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We have now arrived at the first crucial question of this post: <i>How effective
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has this blog been in achieving its goals?</i>
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Let’s start off by looking at engagement. There is no tracking on this site, and
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I’m not even counting page views. We could read into Reddit upvotes (which
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usually hover around 100-ish per post), but with no strong trend I’m wary of
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reading too much into those numbers. What about engendering an interest in
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contributing? This is even harder to consider. It is similarly difficult to
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judge whether this blog might be helping (even if only a bit) foster a stronger
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sense of community.
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Ok, how about the second crucial question: <i>Moving forwards, what changes should
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I make to the style of posts, if any?</i>
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Hmmm, this is a prickly one too. Both of these questions suffer from the same
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problem — <i>I</i> can’t answer them. Simply put, I need to hear from <i>you</i>. Whether it
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be in the Reddit comments section, or by Email (<kbd>tec@</kbd> this domain), to direct
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2022’s posts I am <i>very</i> interested in hearing your thoughts on:
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<li>How engaging you’ve found this blog? (the content, the style of writing, etc.)</li>
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<li>Whether this blog has influenced your feelings on the Org project and/or community?</li>
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<li>Whether this blog has affected your thoughts on contributing to Org?</li>
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<li>What you think this blog has done well/badly over the past year?</li>
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<li>If there’s anything you’d be interested in this blog doing differently in 2022?</li>
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That’s all for now! Thank you for reading, and have a great new year 🙂
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<h2 class="footnotes">Footnotes: </h2>
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<div class="footdef"><sup><a id="fn.1" class="footnum" href="#fnr.1" role="doc-backlink">1</a></sup> <div class="footpara" role="doc-footnote"><p class="footpara">
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Both the org-mode codebase, and also the ecosystem that’s sprung up
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around it
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