Hi On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 16:32 +1000, Jean Weber wrote:
> On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 16:23, Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: Jean Hollis Weber <jeanwe...@gmail.com> > > To: documentation@libreoffice.org > > Sent: Sat, 14 May, 2011 7:06:17 > > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Tags on blog posts > > > > On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 06:36 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> ________________________________ > >> From: Jean Weber <jeanwe...@gmail.com> > >> To: "documentation@libreoffice.org" <documentation@libreoffice.org> > >> Sent: Sat, 14 May, 2011 2:44:54 > >> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Tags on blog posts > >> > >> On 14/05/2011, at 11:31, John Shabanowitz <john...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> > I think we're all still learning. I'm not sure either. When you make a > >> > post > >> > there is a box on the right side where you can click categories that > >> > assign > >> > categories to the posts. I think that is where that is coming from. On my > >> > computer it is "below the fold" of my browser window. If you don't > >> > scroll, > >> > you won't see the selected, recommended categories. TDF is selected by > >> > default. > >> > >> Ah, okay. I think we should untick it then on individual posts (when > >> choosing > >> the tags we do want). Would be good if there is a way to stop it from being > >> ticked by default. > >> > >> > > >> > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Jean Weber <jeanwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > > >> >> I notice that the last two posts on our blog have as one of their tags > >> >> "The > >> >> Document Foundation" and I wondered why. Neither post has anything to do > >> >> with TDF. Was this a mistake, or am I still confused about what tags are > >> >> for? > >> >> > >> >> Jean > >> > >> > >> Hi :) > >> I think the tag "The Document Foundation" is still relevant because people > >>might > >> > >> be searching for TDF to try to get everything about LibreOffice. I think > >> that > > > >> in this sort of context TDF is the umbrella or think of it this way, > >> LibreOffice is a sub-set of TDF. Obviously LibreOffice is the only reason > >> for > > > >> TDF to exist so it's a lot more important then that but outsiders might not > >> appreciate that. > >> Regards from > >> Tom :) > >> > > > > Tom, it's the "LibreOffice Documentation Blog" -- why would they be > > looking for items tagged with "The Document Foundation" on this blog, > > unless they were looking for a blog post specifically related to TDF > > itself? This is a genuine question. > > > > If I were looking for info on TDF, I wouldn't appreciate getting a bunch > > of posts about LibO with no info on TDF itself. > > > > Jean > > > > > > Hi :) > > Hmmm, i see what you mean but i think that the type of people that would > > find > > the blog most useful are likely to be people that have not heard of > > OpenOffice, > > LibreOffice or TDF ever before, ie well over 95% of office workers in > > England > > and the USA or well over 80% in mainland Europe. It's going to be a few > > years > > before any of those names are known more widely but people might notice an > > article about TDF or LibreOffice and just want to know more. > > > > > > The blogs look like the sort of thing that increases people's confidence in > > giving LO a quick try, especially since it gives links to documentation. > > Blogging is a marketing tool. > > But if everything in the blog is tagged with TDF, what's the point? > > I don't know a lot about tags, but I thought their purpose was for > finding things once you had reached the blog, not for finding the blog > in the first place. I may be totally wrong about that, of course. > There are other ways to help outsiders find the blog, including those > who might stumble upon it by accident (by seeing a tweet about it, for > example). > > --Jean > I believe tags are more search engines to use for indexing and blog categories are for internal "filing" of the blogs. If I was looking on the blog for information specifically about Impress I would find all the blogs about Impress or whatever topics I was interested. The tags allow search engines to know what the relevant search terms are for the blog for someone using Google -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
