[OH-Publicity] A quick synopsis of our blog post workflow

[Asheesh Laroia]

Hey all Party and/or Publicity People,

I realized that there isn't a good place outside my head that documents 
the workflow we usually use for getting blog posts published on the 
OpenHatch blog. So here is how it goes.

1. Create a blog post draft

You can do this with whatever tools you like.

2. (Optional) Have some private review with people

You can do this, too, with whatever tools you like.

3. Send it to this list, OH-Publicity, for review, as HTML

When you send it to the list, I personally suggest using 
http://htmlpad.org/ to host your HTML. It makes it easy for other people 
to review your text and edit formatting.

We have an idiom that the first line of the HTML that you submit for 
review is the title of the post, and that you will put it in <b>bold</b>.

Also, it's helpful if you indicate if you'd prefer people *do* modify the 
HTML as it is on the web, or if instead they give you feedback on the list 
and you go update the HTML yourself. If you don't specify it, you're 
likely to get some people emailing the list with bullet points of what to 
change, and other people (likely myself) editing your HTML directly.

As a special case of this, if you have permission to post on the OpenHatch 
blog already, you can use the "public post preview" feature and send that 
link here.

(If you happen to not be able to write HTML, then you can give it to the 
list in some other format, but you'll need someone's help eventually to 
convert it to HTML before it actually goes on the blog.)

4. Wait for ~24 hours or one positive review, then post it

If you don't have blog posting permission, someone usually will be happy 
to give it to you, if what you're posting is suitably OpenHatchy. 
(Everything that has made it to this list has been suitably OpenHatchy, so 
don't worry too much about that criterion.)

(Note: The OpenHatch blog will automatically send a link to 
https://identi.ca/openhatch and https://twitter.com/openhatch with your 
post title and a link.)

5. (Optional) Redent/tweet it personally and be excited

You know, that social media stuff, and the general pride-in-your-work 
stuff.

Mike Linksvayer did a great job of that recently by being the first person 
to redent+retweet the recent OpenHatch Newsletter.

Now at least there's an email in the archives we can point people to! If 
someone wants to move to this to the wiki, I will owe you a chocolate chip 
cookie, or a similar treat, at your option.

-- Asheesh.