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Get on your soapbox!

Blog content and promotion

Maëlle Salmon. R-Ladies Global social master
ma_salmon, maelle

2018/03/15

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My place in the R community

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?

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What can you blog about?

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What can you blog about?

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What can you blog about?

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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!

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What can you blog about?

Not necessarily R code!

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What can you blog about?

Not necessarily R code!

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What can you blog about?

Not necessarily R code!

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Find inspiration

Read other blogs!

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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.

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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

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

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Promote your blog: RSS feed

Create its RSS feed

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Take advantage of R-Ladies networks

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The particular case of rOpenSci

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

Tell us (< 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!

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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

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Slides created via the R package xaringan by Yihui Xie with the R-Ladies theme by Alison Presmanes Hill. 💜

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My place in the R community

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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