Tagged with: Backstory • interview • jurgen appelo • noop
Wednesday seems to be a great day to talk about yourself. So.
Ask me a question about my blog, and I give you my undivided attention. Ask me 8 questions, and … well … wow … you get a posting on another blog.
Jurgen Appelo runs Noop.nl, “The #1 Blog in Europe for Software Development Managers” … Continental Europe to be precise … and I have to mention that this is according to his own metrics. The metrics that make me #2 in the same category.
Nuff said.
“In my relentless efforts to dominate the software development blogosphere, I am trying to find out how to beat all competitors. As you can understand, that’s not an easy thing to do!
So I’ve decided to ask the authors themselves to help me out. They are much better qualified to do a SWOT-analysis of their blogs than I am.”
Go over there and read me yapping about why I started blogging and if I ever deleted a post (I did once!).
Subscribe to his RSS feed. If you like.
OK, here you go:
It looks like you run softwareprojects.org for quite a few years already. What keeps you going all this time?
Your blog and topics you cover change over the time. What drives these changes?
I’d say your subscriber pool is pretty impressive. Do you have any advice for fellow bloggers how to build such a community?
Your biggest mistake as a blogger was…
Which of your posts, which you were very proud of, went totally underappreciated? In other words which ones you’d like to highlight once more?
Which posts brought you a lot of buzz while you’d never say so while you’d been publishing them?
Do you have writers block? How do you deal with that?
A couple of top tricks you use as a blogger are…
Great questions. Oof. That will take a while to answer. You know what, I will use them for a post next Wednesday… maybe there is a series
BTW People should visit your blog and subscribe… I read it now for alsmost 2 years. PPeople should click on the name