Just to set the context of this blog right; this blog is more from a personal standpoint and not a general one. The explanation, rather,
what I should have done, to all the parts/points is written down further in the blog.
*** The sarcasm throughout the blog is directed on me and on my foolhardiness.
***
So my first blog in the SAP Community… excited??
Excited…I was…Very excited to say the least.
Let me just give you a brief about myself before we probe further.
With more than 7 years of experience in the SAP Technical turf; I thought I could write my first blog post without any road-blocks. Also with some blogging experience behind me (I generally do blog about a lot of other stuffs; like movies/food/restaurants); I was under the impression that writing a technical blog in the SAP Community should be a cakewalk.
Well that is exactly where the game changed. The things that I learned or am still learning about writing a blog in the SAP community are vast. Here, below, am listing down the
Don’ts of writing a blog in the SAP community.
- Keep the blog as technical as possible because it is technical community.
- Please don’t do any research about the topic that you are writing.
- What is right/wrong doesn’t matter, what matters is your experience and your knowledge that someone “senior” has imparted to you.
- Think that the moderator is present just to check your grammar/spellings and to make sure that you are not using any SMS language or cuss words.
I planned on writing these points down in the hope that someone benefits from it.
If someone still has not got it yet!! Please consider the above points with a sarcastic tone to it rather, keeping it simple,
please don’t follow the above mentioned 4 pointers.
So here I was trying to write a blog about the “Best Practices to be followed while using ABAP in BW”, where I ended up doing all the above mentioned things and got my first draft into the "needs more work" status.
The pointers, I have mentioned here, are my learnings of
what not to do while going about blogging in the SAP Community.
Let me just explain, why I zeroed in on the the above points, a little:
Please do note, that the pointers here are sarcastic(directed towards me), but the explanation below them, are my learnings.
- Keep the blog as technical as possible because it is technical community.
- Think real!!! It’s a BLOG. Keeping it technical should not mean like you are giving out pointers or presentation slides.
- Please don’t do any research about the topic that you are writing.
- This is actually of paramount importance. This is where we can falter miserably. And by research, I mean not googling and going through the first two/three search results. Research if someone else, probably more proficient and efficient has written on your topic somewhere. Then you can collate with your hand-held information and make it even more informative. Mind well, no plagiarism.
- What is right/wrong doesn’t matter, what matters is your experience and your knowledge that someone “senior” has imparted to you.
- The solution to this is more or less similar to the 2nd argument, above. But I wanted to keep it as a separate argument because quite often we get into the habit of listening to some of the colleagues or seniors, who we think are very well-informed. And well-informed they would be, because they would have done their bit of research during their time and probably would not have updated themselves. But we need to move ahead with times and research/update ourselves with every word that we hear.
- Think that the moderator is present just to check your grammar/spellings and to make sure that you are not using any SMS language or cuss words.
- For this, I only have one statement - We have google/MS Word/ethics to correct us.
Hence please
don’t do the don’ts.
As mentioned earlier, these are all my learnings and I plan to keep updating it with inputs from other members and moderators.
I still have not got my first blog published; because it’s still a work in progress. I sincerely hope that I do it soon.
