A Blog for the Community, by the Community

BobWP:

Well, hello, BobWP here. I am sitting in my motel room recording this while at WordCamp US. So much stuff going on, this being the Thursday the 19th, have already done 2 days of the hectic schedule and now into the official two days of the camp

There’s a lot I could share with you so far, but that is not why I am here. And I mean by talking to you and not where I am physically.

On September the 2nd I pushed out a post on Do the Woo called The Soft Relaunch of the Do the Woo Blog, It was short, and hinted a bit of what we have in store. Then while I’m here at WordCamp, I realized that in that post I said I would be telling you more about the blog. Which was not optimal nor did I plan that as it should have been.

So I felt obligated to do this episode while knowing I still have a few things left to do.

But let me share where we are at.

As I mentioned in that post, Ronald Gijsel and myself did a podcast while we brainstormed the ideas around what the Do the Wo blog would look like. Why was there no blog. At some point last year I decided to move posts off of the site and focus on the audio we were putting out. Several reasons for that but in hindsight it was probably a mistake or at least something I should have just let ride.

Then I realized, maybe I woke up, that the site had a big missing part to it. And also, I was missing blogging here at Do the Woo. For someone who has blogged since 2018, well, a void in my life. Of course, as Ronald and myself talked about the blog, it was obvious that we have the perfect site for a blog

Yes, a blog by the community and for the community. Want a rundown on my plans

I will blog of course. But hosts, guests and friends of do the woo will also guest post.

We are not going down the tutorial path, doing reviews, building a news blog or pitching products.

What we want is conversations continuing based on podcast episodes. For example, a guest wants to dive into a topic that they only were able to mention on the episode. Or perhaps they have additional thoughts that didn’t get covered. And yes, at anytime a past guest can come in and update us on something that was mentioned in their show. In other words, a lot of flexibility.

But what about your the listener? Maybe leaving a comment isn’t enough for you. You may have thoughts on an episode and would like to write a guest post to share them with our audience. These could be as short as a paragraph or two, or if you have a lot to say, as long as you need to make it.

Of course, guest posts will be scrutinized to make sure they cover what we are looking for.

We have a three things that will make your content that you post here so valuable. One we will be sharing soon, and the other two likely will be worked on for the next several month.

And, we will soon have things in place if you want to do a guest post, or maybe even become a regular. Things like guidelines, forms to submit your interest to us, etc, etc. In fact I will write a blog post something after I return home here from WordCamp US when all of these things are in place.

So that’s it. If you did carve out sometime to actually listen to this and you are still at WordCampUS, please let’s connect and at least say hi if we haven’t already. And to everyone out there, we are excited to share and amplify even more voice from this community.

Until the next time.