Writing a tech blog
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The document provides a comprehensive guide for writing a tech blog on Medium, detailing the importance of blogging for personal and professional growth. It covers the structure of a blog, tips for writing engaging content, and the target audience, emphasizing the need for clear organization and effective communication. Additionally, the author shares their writing experience and insights gained from publishing on the platform.
Writing a tech blog
- 1. Writing a tech blog Easy guide to nail you next story on medium https://medium.com/@niteshghn Nitesh Verma
- 2. Topics to discuss 1. Why should you write blog 2. Structure of the blog 3. The Audience 4. The Writing 5. The Content 6. Examples
- 3. Why should you write blog ? ● It help company to tell about it’s tech implementation and get feedback from people. ● It help you read and memorize lot of stuff, compare lot of technologies and trade-off. ● Soft skills ○ Grammer ○ Words/Vocab : Synonyms etc ○ Tools : Excel, Charts etc ● Become popular and create self-brand -> which help people find you on internet ● Sharing is caring and it propagates. ● You can make money by writing.
- 4. Structure of blog ● Problem statement : What are you solving and why is that a problem ? ● What were the requirements and expectations from the new system ? ● What are proposed solutions ? Explain trade-offs and what fits your need ? ● How did you go about implementing this ?? what are the challenges you faced ? ● What are the results and outcome ? ● Conclusion : Share your perspective and future scope of project. Introduction/Background/Origin of problem Requirements and expectation Results and Outcome Proposed solution and Trade offs Implementation Conclusion
- 5. Typography and styling ● Title and Subtitle : ○ Title : Should be small precise and catchy ■ Example : Scaling a Mature Data Pipeline — Managing Overhead, ○ Subtile : Explain the title and what going to be in blog ● Headings ○ Every section mentioned previously should have big title , h1 ○ Subsection will have small size heading , h2 ● Further Formatting : ○ Use bullet points , underlines etc ○ Use “section breaks” to highlight content start ○ Use Quote for taking a reference from someone’s work
- 6. The audience How/why are people coming to your blog ?? ● Googling some problem they faced ● Looking for some people based on some skill ● Organically What are people who’s going to read your blog ?? ● Fresher , college students , 10 year experience guy ● Recruiter , Manager, CXOs Everyone like stories !! Make yours register in their brain.
- 7. The writing ● Organize your thoughts : Mindmap ● Just write it . ● Improve it iteratively. Read it yourself and Send it across to friends Read and get feedback Write new or correct mistakes. Write parts and connect Organize feedback into your headings Organize thoughts
- 8. The Content Have to be engaging ● Use memes (but not much) ● Pictures , diagrams => https://www.draw.io/ ● Code snippet , Gist Context Don’t lose context. Make sure you talk about the topic only. Park additional info. Think about Audience Is it too verbose ? Is it too mathematical ? Is it smooth ? Can reader understand it without going out of my blog ?
- 9. Examples 1. Airbnb 2. Booking.com 3. Cloudflare 4. Dropbox 5. Envato 6. Etsy
- 10. About my writing experience Started reading tech blogs in 2014 mainly Techcrunch and other trendy websites. Got interested in writing blogs on medium in 2015. Published first story on Feb 2017. No of published blogs : 4 No of drafts (Ready to be published) : 4 Total story views : 718 No of reads : 461 Read Ratio : 64% Total Number of claps : 303 Total number of users : 56
- 11. Happy writing !!