Improve the Process to Submit a Guest Blog

[A1]

Hello everyone.

I wonder why the current way to share space opportunities in MTC for Blog

Guest want to change ?

IT professionals create their own blogs and can share them when creating a topic for discussion - as an additional justification for their experiences!

The change you are proposing does not seem to be justified!

I ask for more arguments for your idea.

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[Reza_Ameri]

Hi,

You do have opportunity to share blog here but the process is not professional. You have to manually fill up a form and then receive an email and then send your content by email and after approval, you will get a chance to publish it.

What I proposed, simplify this process where you could just login once and submit all data and request and do changes if needed from this website and publish it, it would be more professional way to do it.

In case IT Professionals want their own websites, then there is no need to publish a website as a guest here and this is for those who want to publish content here.

Another reason is having more technical content here, will make this website more productive. Just compare a case where you have to search on the net for multiple contents in several weblogs with one website with several valuable contents. 

[Deleted]

Hello everyone!

I at MTC expect information from microsoft employee blog first and foremost!

Creating new processes for approving and analyzing content for a guest blog requires a development team – I think Microsoft isn't interested in such an improvement!

I will wait for the result of the vote!

Thank you!

[Sergei Baklan]

Oh, that was already discussed some ago. As I remember that's up to owner of concrete channel.

[Reza_Ameri]

As I mentioned, the process is already exist but it is so manual and unprofessional and like I said, Microsoft will be able to monitor it. One advantage would be integrate all bloggers in one platform instead of islands of weblogs. It won't be difficult to implement such a mechanism and it would required a bit of coding.

[A1]

If you make a separate space only for the Guest Blog so That I know clearly that this is an external evaluation, proposal and individual position regarding the product - it is already acceptable as a good idea!

But whether it will be implemented depends on Microsoft! 

[Reza_Ameri]

@A1 you are correct.

So let say what Microsoft thinks about this idea.

[Eric Starker]

I apologize, but the Tech Community was not intended to be a platform for guest bloggers.

Each blog is owned by a separate Microsoft team and guest bloggers are solely at their discretion and so an application process would not suit their needs unless they specifically ask for it.

We recommend Medium or other platforms if your primary interest is in creating a personal blog. All of our users can contribute to our discussion spaces.

[Deleted]

Thank you!

The explanation is enough!

[Reza_Ameri]

Thank you @Eric Starker for commenting on this.

Is there any chance to include this ability in the future?

I used to post the Blog in the WordPress and now I switched to the LinkedIn.

[Eric Starker]

There are no plans currently to include this ability in the future. 

[Reza_Ameri]

Thank you @Eric Starker for the clarification

[oglasi]

Thanks for the clear explanation. I am interested in what are the most preferred topics for your blog. 

[Eric Starker]

Since we do not have a formalized process for applying to guest blog for a team, we don't have preferred topics. Feel free to take a look at our list of blogs and that should give you a sense of the topics we cover here in Tech Community.

One of our blogs does accept submissions on the topic of Microsoft Teams - you can see information on how to submit for that here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-community-blog/welcome-to-the-microsoft-teams... 

[oglasi]

@Eric Starker Thank you for your quick and expeditious reply. Best regards.