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Brass Contributor

Jan 06, 2020

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How to write a blog here in Technical Community

Dear MSFT Community, I am newbie to Microsoft Technical Community. I have been thinking of writing a blog, but for some reason whenever i goto the blog space, there are no buttons to start one. I...

EricStarker
Jan 06, 2020
ChinLaiThe Thanks for your inquiry. Our blogs are intended for Microsoft employees to share news and information, so our bloggers are primarily Microsoft employees. Occasionally teams will designate an MVP or outside expert to guest blog, but the Microsoft Tech Community is not intended as a public blogging platform.

The forums, however, are open to all to post and we'd welcome your contributions there.

EricStarker

Former Employee

Feb 16, 2021

Kamal Pandey Feel free to suggest any changes to Community Ideas.

I don't think that policy is likely to change though. There are lots of places for users to host individual blogs. The Tech Community was not designed as a place for that. Everyone can post in the forums though!

Angeles_Banaka

MCT

Jul 11, 2022

Ok, understood !

Sajid_Hameed
Copper Contributor
Oct 21, 2023
One option is to allow the non-Microsoft employees to write the blog as an extension of the Microsoft blog, something like TED and TEDx

Regards

Sajid Hameed

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- EricStarker
  Former Employee
  Oct 24, 2023
  Sajid_Hameed
  
  Thanks for the feedback and we will keep it in mind. However, at this time, that is our policy.
  
  Please note we do not allow external links, even in your bios, so we've removed the link to your website. Please do not include these in the future.