Unlocking the Secrets to Success - How to Thrive as a Technical Writer and Earn a Living

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Code Blocks for G Suite

Choose a good writing tool for your articles. Personally, I use Obsidian because writing articles in Markdown makes it easy to post them on different platforms. I do sometimes use Google Docs because some clients prefer it to be in a word document format. I would then use the Code Blocks syntax highlighting extension for Google Docs so that I can add code to my Google Docs articles.

#Password Managers #WiKi #Password Management 3 social mentions

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Obsidian.md

#Knowledge Management #Knowledge Base #Markdown Editor 1452 social mentions

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Medium

The top 3 GOATS (greatest of all time) and most well-known FREE tech writing platforms are DEV, Hashnode and Mediumso sign up and create accounts on all of them. You are going to be building your audience across all 3 because let's be honest not everyone has an account on all of them but they might have an account on at least one of them. You have just boosted your chances that people are going to see your articles on at least one platform. Cross-post your content to grow an audience across all 3 and see where you are getting the most engagement.

#Blogging #Blogging Platform #CMS 2187 social mentions

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Hashnode

The top 3 GOATS (greatest of all time) and most well-known FREE tech writing platforms are DEV, Hashnode and Mediumso sign up and create accounts on all of them. You are going to be building your audience across all 3 because let's be honest not everyone has an account on all of them but they might have an account on at least one of them. You have just boosted your chances that people are going to see your articles on at least one platform. Cross-post your content to grow an audience across all 3 and see where you are getting the most engagement.

#Web App #Social Media Tools #Software Engineering 120 social mentions

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HackMD

When it comes to sharing articles with the client especially if it is in Markdown format I have been using HackMD and Dropbox Paper.

#Task Management #Productivity #Project Management 62 social mentions

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DEV.to

The top 3 GOATS (greatest of all time) and most well-known FREE tech writing platforms are DEV, Hashnode and Mediumso sign up and create accounts on all of them. You are going to be building your audience across all 3 because let's be honest not everyone has an account on all of them but they might have an account on at least one of them. You have just boosted your chances that people are going to see your articles on at least one platform. Cross-post your content to grow an audience across all 3 and see where you are getting the most engagement.

#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 382 social mentions

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daily.dev

If it is Twitter then sometimes if your article is high value then other people might repost your article too. This will again boost your engagement. The best engagement happens when a big account or the official DEV and Hashnode Twitter accounts tweet out your article. You can gain even more engagement by liking and retweeting it which increases the likelihood that it goes viral. This has worked for me many times. Having your article get picked up by daily.dev has a similar result too! I have had articles show up and be promoted on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and daily.dev.

#Firefox Extensions #Chrome Extensions #Productivity 60 social mentions