Photo: #WOCinTech Chat Six years ago, when I released my ebook The Developer’s Guide to Content Creation , I never predicted that the proliferation of AI tools would challenge a software developer’s writing practice. But less than three years after I published it, ChatGPT was released. Many writing tools have AI native capabilities. The rest is history. AI has helped people improve their writing in tangible ways: writing can go from ideation to first draft in quickly, long-wi

In this post you’ll learn what a status report is, who reads them, what questions status updates can answer, and how to format them.

Want to gain more followers on social media? You'll need more than formulaic tweets. Here are three things to keep in mind.

Do you control both the content you create and the platform where it's hosted? What does this mean for you as a content creator?

Are you a developer writing your first book? Here are three things to keep in mind before deciding whether to self-publish or not.

Photo: #WOCinTech Chat Recently, I hosted an ask-me-anything (AMA) webinar with two developers. The topic of making time to write blog posts came up, and one of the participants shared a pain point they experienced (paraphrased): I’ll have done the research [for a blog post] but when I have to sit down to write something, nothing happens. It took a bit of prodding to figure out what the source of the problem was, but I learned that this participant sits down to write and is a

Archiving content, especially content that has been published on an external website, ensures we can access our old content at any time.

In this blog post, I’ll share tips for developers who want to avoid burnout from creating new content.

What is SEO and why should software developers care? In this comprehensive article, I describe what SEO is and how it impacts findability.

What’s the best blogging platform for developers? In this post, you'll learn which questions you need to ask yourself before deciding where

Web analytics is the collection, analysis, and reporting of data compiled from a website for the purpose of research and optimization.

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In this post, developer advocates will learn how to optimize their online presence using calls to action (CTAs), improved social media profi

How long is too long? Here are four things to consider when determining the length of your blog post.

How do you maintain consistency with writing? Especially when crazy things in life (like pandemics) happen?

I explain what blog post syndication is and will provide a few tips for syndicating your content without messing up your SEO.

I share lessons learned when working with developers on original blog posts, and how this can help your engineering team build a better blog

Free content is critical in helping new software engineers learn and grow. But we shouldn't expect everything for free.

Naming things is jokingly referred to as one of the hardest problems to solve in computer science, but we still have to make an effort.

En este post enumero siete errores comunes que cometemos al crear contenido para desarrolladores y cómo evitarlos.