Get on your soapbox!

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# Get on your soapbox!
## Blog content and promotion
### Maëlle Salmon. R-Ladies Global social master <br/> <i class="fa  fa-twitter "></i> ma_salmon, <i class="fa  fa-github "></i> maelle
### 2018/03/15

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# My place in the R community

```r
library("magrittr"); library("magick")
row1 <- c(image_read("locke.png"), image_read("rweekly.png")) %>% image_append()
row2 <- c(image_read("ropensci.png"), image_read("rladies.png")) %>% image_append()

image_blank(225, 200, col = "white") %>%
  image_composite(row1, offset = "+0+100") %>%
  image_composite(row2, offset = "+50+25") 
```

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# My blogging journey

I don't use blogdown yet!

http://www.masalmon.eu/

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# What can you blog about?

* Your latest R obsession? Me in http://www.masalmon.eu/2018/02/22/hexcombine/

* Something you've just implemented? Omayma Said http://omaymas.github.io/prophet_explore/

* Something _you_ like! Kasia Kulma https://kkulma.github.io/2017-12-16-star-wars-vs-star-trek-word-battle/

* Fun packages?  Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel's list  http://www2.stat.duke.edu/courses/Fall17/sta112.01/assignment/08-mini-hw.html

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# What can you blog about?

Things you've just learnt. Edwin Thoen's https://edwinth.github.io/blog-new-things/ says

* _It forces you to study deeply_

* _You understand other learners_

* _You draw attention of experts_

* _You train in being wrong_

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# What can you blog about?

Not necessarily R code!

* A list of things that helped you learn Lorna Maria Aine in https://medium.com/@lornamariak/r-libraries-to-aid-you-learn-data-science-in-2018-30eaaf7cc050

* Your experience at an event e.g. Jasmine Dumas in https://jasdumas.github.io/2017-05-28-runconf17-experience/

* Your experience at work e.g. Julia Silge in https://juliasilge.com/blog/one-year-at-stack/

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# Find inspiration

Read other blogs!

* R Weekly newsletter https://rweekly.org/

* \#rstats on Twitter https://twitter.com/search?q=%23rstats&src=savs

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# Explore your idea

* Google it!

* If you find similar work, link it in your post.

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# About links

Other blog posts, Package docs, anything really.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="ca"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">My favorite thing to do when writing any blog post is linking the heck out of everything because I want every post to be a multi-directional springboard for curious people.</p>&mdash; Mikhail Popov (@bearloga) <a href="https://twitter.com/bearloga/status/950476076215558144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">8 de gener de 2018</a></blockquote>

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# Find your own voice

* I'm no writing coach but I'd say, be sincere.

* What language? English or your own? Or both like Daniela Vázquez https://d4tagirl.com/

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# How to get stuff done?

Proofread and do your best but...

Don't let stress and perfectionism spoil the _fun_.

Do not get too ambitious

🚢 it!

Kasia Kulma's strategy: https://kkulma.github.io/2017-12-29-end-of-year-thoughts/

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# Store your ideas

* Your usual note taking workflow: notebook, fancy app (Trello?), etc.

* I have a notebook and used to have an empty GitHub repo with ideas as issues.

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# Store your ideas: Suzan Baert's cupboard

http://suzan.rbind.io/

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# My recipe to tweet a blog post

* Title and link!

* \#rstats and other hashtag if needed

* A figure or a gif!

* Emojis!

* Tag package authors? Listen to their feed first

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# My recipe to tweet a blog post

```r
rtweet::tweet_shot("966799442430054400")%>%
  magick::image_crop("517x300+0+90")
```

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# Add your blog to lists!

* https://github.com/sellorm/awesome-blogdown

* https://support.rbind.io/about/

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# Promote your blog: RSS feed

Create its RSS feed

* Submit it to https://rweekly.org/submit (RSS feed or individual links!)

* Submit it to R Bloggers? https://www.r-bloggers.com/add-your-blog/

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# Take advantage of R-Ladies networks

* Ping your local chapter

* Ping me/R-Ladies Global Twitter account! https://twitter.com/rladiesglobal

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# The particular case of rOpenSci

If you use one of https://ropensci.org/packages/

Tell us (<i class="fa  fa-twitter "></i>< rOpenSci https://ropensci.org/contact/) and the link will be added to rOpenSci newsletter! https://ropensci.github.io/biweekly/

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# Don't miss this offer!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="ca"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;if you’re early in your career as a data scientist and you start a data-related blog, tweet me a link at <a href="https://twitter.com/drob?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@drob</a> and I’ll tweet about your first post&quot; 👌☄ <a href="https://t.co/FaXrgVcE0P">https://t.co/FaXrgVcE0P</a></p>&mdash; R-Ladies Global (@RLadiesGlobal) <a href="https://twitter.com/RLadiesGlobal/status/930494182027923457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">14 de novembre de 2017</a></blockquote>

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# Be the blog reader you want to see

* Leave comments: compliments, questions, suggestions, corrections

* Share links with your network!

* Link it back on your blog

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# Thank you!

https://github.com/maelle/rladiesct

http://www.masalmon.eu/rladiesct/slides

Slides created via the R package [**xaringan**](https://github.com/yihui/xaringan) by Yihui Xie with the R-Ladies theme by Alison Presmanes Hill. 💜

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