Thoughts

I kind of want to hide my “Behind the Scenes” posts. Like make it a patreon perk. I would need to be a bit more diligent about making the behind the scenes posts happen on a regular basis.

Activity and Status update

Yesterday was about getting the blog launched. I was successful. Almost 2 week early in fact. So, I sat down this afternoon and reviewed my 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 plans. <TK add post on The Bullet Journal Method”, and “Getting Things Done”> There is a whole aspect of tDiDO (pronounced “Tuh Dee Doe” that is completely focused on personal branding and entrepreneurialism. But it’s not the main focus.

Side note: research user roles for the site. Subscriber, Guest, Patreon Silver, Patreon Gold, Patreon Diamond

Now back to studying my content course.

Thoughts and note

What is the “story” that your blog is telling?

How are you measuring engagement with your blog?

What is your publishing schedule?

• Where to get content ideas
  • Spy on your competitors – Requires you know who your competitors are
    • “Resource Sites”
      • https://searchitoperations.techtarget.com/feature/Top-15-DevOps-blogs-to-read-and-follow
      • https://blog.feedspot.com/devops_blogs/
      • https://devops.com/
      • https://apiumhub.com/tech-blog-barcelona/devops-blogs/
      • https://www.devopsschool.com/blog/top-10-devops-blogs-and-websites-to-follow-in-2020/
      • https://www.upguard.com/blog/devops-resources-online
      • Conferences
        • https://confs.tech/devops
      • https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/
        • https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/ow44xr/monthly_shameless_self_promotion_thread_202108/
        • https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/ow45jd/monthly_getting_into_devops_thread_202108/
    • Podcasts
      • Command line heroes
      • Arrested DevOps
    • YouTube Channels
      • Jeff Geerling
      • David Farley
    • Google Search
      • “People also ask”
      • Question words in quotes before the subject
        • “who” devops
        • Who, what, where, when, how, why, whose
    • Books
      • The Goal
      • The Phoenix Project
      • The Unicorn Project
      • The DevOps Handbook
      • The SRE book at google
      • Accelerate – Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
      • Continuous Delivery – Jez Humble, David Farley
      • Effective DevOps – Jennifer Davis, Ryn Daniels
    • Communities and Organizations
    • Feed reader to follow your competition
    • InoReader – Free account
      • Setup feeds to read
    • Resources that miss the point
      • https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/7-devops-roles-you-need-succeed
        • Article focuses on “how to get it right” as opposed to “how to safely fail forwards”
    • Checklists
      • What to go in logs?
      • What documentation is required for each release of your software?
• Articles:
  • How consultants, and universities kill good ideas
    • TQM and Scrum
• Publishing Schedule
  • Weekly BTS Status and Activities

Letter to Andrew

I’ve been work in Andrews content creation course <TK, affiliate link to course> (this is an affiliate link, if you click this link and buy the course, I will get a small commission). Anyway, WordPress is a frustration to me right now because I don’t have a mental framework on how to modify each piece. And the course I am taking, is not updated for the newest version of WordPress.

I wrote a question to the instructor, and he responded with a question of what I was struggling with, and I found my response to be something I want to reflect on and use as a content source in the future.

Hi Andrew – Thanks for the response.  I don’t specifically remember what I was trying to do.  What I ended up doing was just ripping a lot of things out of the template and making it work.  I just know that I was stopped because the editor on your screen did not match the editor on my screen.  Not stopped for long, but it was a friction point.

There are so many moving pieces to wordpress that I’m finding it difficult to get a simple mental framework for it.  Everything seems to be handled in a different way in a different place.  Your course work is helping with getting good at the skill of WordPress.

My focus is on making my first $1.00 from my blog between now and 31 December (a little more than 4 months).  I am focusing my attention and efforts on the development of my content creation and publication pipelines.  That’s what I’m really excited about for this course.  Setting up a blog is a technical challenge, but building structures that move content from idea to cash, is where the gold is.  This course is helping with getting good at the skill of content creation and publication.