Do you have an article you want to write? Is there something know a lot about that you want to share? A Padded Cell needs your content!
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Thanks!!
Megan
My web design blog
Megan posted this at 18:14—12th March 2007.
She has: 9,938 posts
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I forgot to mention that we will be including author bios (hopefully soon!). We hope to have a short author bio at the end of the article which would link to a more expanded profile and links to your other articles on the site.
Megan
My web design blog
demonhale posted this at 03:38—13th March 2007.
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Can we assign topics privately as I would like to contribute to get the ball rolling.....
Megan posted this at 13:09—13th March 2007.
She has: 9,938 posts
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What do you mean, assign topics? Do you want me to tell you what to write about? I might be able to give you something from the Basic Web Design series.
BTW, we will hopefully have 2 new articles published tomorrow!
Megan
My web design blog
JeevesBond posted this at 13:58—13th March 2007.
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One cunning idea might be to implement a moderator queue for new articles. So users can author on the site, it'll make the process easier to understand and they'll be able to see their articles in-situ. Am pretty certain I saw a module of http://drupal.org that would do this yesterday. Should I put it in Basecamp?
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Megan posted this at 14:20—13th March 2007.
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Sounds like what SEOmoz has for their "YouMoz" section. I'll show you tonight.
Doing it in the forums has an upside too though - makes it easier to manage reviews and feedback.
Megan
My web design blog
demonhale posted this at 23:46—13th March 2007.
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Like what you said, do it in the forums, add an area where certain articles are critiqued and edited by the group and at least scrutinized before release... By giving topics I mean, you categorize the article contribution area to general topics accepted by a padded cell...
andy206uk posted this at 19:10—14th March 2007.
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I would be interested to hear what articles you need written... I can write on all sorts of things, I just never have the ideas!
Perhaps there should be an APC content forum, but just list the topics that are wanted to people in a new 'contributor' group? I don't think you want to publish the list to the world as it would make it too easy for people to nick em for other sites.
Andyk
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Megan posted this at 19:42—14th March 2007.
She has: 9,938 posts
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I have a running list in Basecamp - just ideas I come up with. I also have an outline for the Basic Web Design series - I could delegate parts of that. I get a lot of inspiration from problems I see here in the forums. Things people have a lot of questions about - that's where the current SEO article came from or evidently have problems with. So keep an eye out when you're reading here. You could also write about things you've come across in your work - problems and solutions, how to's, that sort of thing. I have a two-part tutorial written about this FAQ I made at work. It just breaks it down, explains how it was developed and why I made certain choices in the mark-up.
That's a good idea for a contributor group. We'd like to have a defined group of editors and proofreaders for all content as well.
We could also really use help promoting our content - if you have a blog or use any social bookmarking sites we'd really appreciate a linkback
(that reminds me to go post on my blog about the latest articles...)
Megan
My web design blog