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<span style="color: #9e9e9e;">#+title:</span> <span style="color: #29838d; font-weight: 700;">December 2021
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</span><span style="color: #9e9e9e;">#+subtitle:</span> <span style="color: #29838d;">Looking back on my first year of blogging
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</span><span style="color: #9e9e9e;">#+author:</span> <span style="color: #29838d;">TEC
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</span><span style="color: #9e9e9e;">#+date:</span> <span style="color: #29838d;">2021-12-31
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Just over eight months ago, I kicked off <span style="text-decoration: italic;">/This Month in Org/</span> with an emphatic
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announcement of the blog's in the form of a <span style="color: #3b6ea8; font-weight: 700;">[[file:2021-04-26-Welcome.org][Welcome]]</span> post. If you haven't
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guessed, this is the first "blog post" I've ever written. In that <span style="text-decoration: italic;">/welcome/</span> 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 <span style="text-decoration: italic;">/I/</span> want to accomplish with it. By starting <span style="text-decoration: italic;">/TMiO/</span> I hoped to:
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+ Engage more people with the improvements being made to Org<span style="color: #ac4426;">[fn:1]</span>.
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+ Highlight some of the great work being done by Org<span style="color: #ac4426;">[fn:1]</span> contributors.
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+ Encourage more people to consider contributing to Org<span style="color: #ac4426;">[fn:1]</span>.
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+ Foster a stronger sense of an Org<span style="color: #ac4426;">[fn:1]</span> community, outside the mailing list.
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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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+ Try to make the blog posts a little more interesting, and less tedious.
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+ Potentially introduce readers to nice features of Org they weren't aware of before.
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We have now arrived at the first crucial question of this post: <span style="text-decoration: italic;">/How effective
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has this blog been in achieving its goals?/</span>
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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: <span style="text-decoration: italic;">/Moving forwards, what changes should
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I make to the style of posts, if any?/</span>
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Hmmm, this is a prickly one too. Both of these questions suffer from the same
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problem --- <span style="text-decoration: italic;">/I/</span> can't answer them. Simply put, I need to hear from <span style="text-decoration: italic;">/you/</span>. Whether it
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be in the Reddit comments section, or by Email (<span style="color: #4f894c;">=tec@=</span> this domain), to direct
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2022's posts I am <span style="text-decoration: italic;">/very/</span> interested in hearing your thoughts on:
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+ How engaging you've found this blog? (the content, the style of writing, etc.)
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+ Whether this blog has influenced your feelings on the Org project and/or community?
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+ Whether this blog has affected your thoughts on contributing to Org?
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+ What you think this blog has done well/badly over the past year?
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+ If there's anything you'd be interested in this blog doing differently in 2022?
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That's all for now! Thank you for reading, and have a great new year 🙂
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<span style="color: #3b6ea8; font-weight: 700;">* Footnotes</span>
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<span style="color: #ac4426;">[fn:1]</span> Both the org-mode codebase, and also the ecosystem that's sprung up
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around it
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