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This is my 422 article on blog.

When I was a student, I took part to a conference. One of that speakers talked about online communication and that was the moment when I started to write on a blog. Then, it appeared LinkedIn and I started to coordinate my blog with my LinkedIn posts.

I used to publish articles for different reasons: for different roles from my recruitment processes, to share professional information or some personal projects.

When I started to write, it was an activity that I used to do it some time to time. Then, I’ve wanted to write a certain frequency to become a habit. Recently, I’ve proposed to start writing in English.

Here are a few of the lessons I've learned and it helped me to publish articles on blog and LinkedIn:

• Write about something you know. When you don’t know about what you can write, you can think about something you know well or on something is very familiar to you.
• Write for people who are interested in your area, not for those who are already specialists. Because of this, use a ”language” that can be understood by everybody.
• Be interested in your readers’ feedback. Social media gives us easily information about how many people visualized your post and how many ”likes” you received. In this way, you can check what are they interested for, what are the ”hot” topics or the most common ones.
• Pe prepared with more topics. Like Santa Claus -make a list and check it twice. This helps you to avoid the moment when you don’t know about what you can write and you skip this.
• Respect a periodicity. It helps you to make a habit – you will get used with it and your readers also.
• Make it like an expert – search workshops, websites or tutorials what will help you to improve your style. Find a mentor or somebody who can give you feedback. Find communities or online groups with people like you.
• An answer to everything/everybody. The absence of an answer is annoying in recruitment, but also in blogging.
• KISS – keep it short (no more than 1 page) and simple (easy to understand by everybody)
• Tell a story. In each article, you write you have to be consistent and to share the main idea with people who read that.

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