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Explore using Medium as a blog platform #172

Closed jjhampton closed 8 years ago

jjhampton commented 8 years ago

The current blog platform using the default Jekyll theme is working, but it can be improved upon. Advantages of using Medium:

Possible improved SEO or increased traffic driven to OperationCode.org from Medium blog
Improved out-of-the-box user interface / design
Exposure to new user base (Medium users)
Native comment system

One idea would be to keep the current Jekyll blog, but somehow integrate it with a Medium blog. Perhaps show only the first paragraph of each blog post on Jekyll, maybe on the list/index view, and the user would click on 'Read Full Article' to be redirected to Medium?

Here's a Ruby gem that cross-posts - https://github.com/aarongustafson/jekyll-crosspost-to-medium

To-Do:

Medium Blog (already set-up as of 3/29/2016)

[x] Add byline below Blog Post title w/ author info, and description of author at end of each article
Current Operation Code blog can be improved by:
[ ] Adding a 1-2 sentences underneath each blog post title
[ ] Adding a Read more button that links back to the Operation Code Medium page
[ ] Increase the number of writers/bloggers to the Operation Code Medium page from board/staff to Core and Deploy team.
[ ] Integrating Ruby gem to minimize dual efforts
[ ] Improve Operation Code Blog look and feel from current to Jasper

davidmolina commented 8 years ago

Agree w/ Medium advantages. Another:

Baked in subscription service native to Medium

(moved To-Do List to original issue description)

davidmolina commented 8 years ago

Medium page created: https://medium.com/@operation_code

davidmolina commented 8 years ago

Working on getting Jasper going...

davidmolina commented 8 years ago

Need to pair with someone. Errors, couldn't get it to fire up internally to the app.

davidmolina commented 8 years ago

@jjhampton Should we close this? It's done already... maybe separate out the Jasper stuff.

jjhampton commented 8 years ago

@davidmolina The main goal is finished (creating a Medium blog) - but the existing blog is still using Jekyll.

I'm almost thinking that it's overkill keeping two blogs - why would we want to keep using Jekyll AND Medium? If Medium is the blog platform we want to use, might be worth just killing off the Jekyll blog and having the link at the top navbar on the main page - "https://operationcode.org/blog" redirect to the Medium blog.

Doing all the work to switch the current blog to Jasper, and then figuring out how to crosspost from that blog to the Medium blog just seems like unnecessary work.

davidmolina commented 8 years ago

Let's do that instead.

On Apr 9, 2016, at 12:35 PM, John Hampton notifications@github.com wrote:

@davidmolina The main goal is finished (creating a Medium blog) - but the existing blog is still using Jekyll.

I'm almost thinking that it's overkill keeping two blogs - why would we want to keep using Jekyll AND Medium? If Medium is the blog platform we want to use, might be worth just killing off the Jekyll blog and having the link at the top navbar on the main page - "https://operationcode.org/blog" redirect to the Medium blog.

Doing all the work to switch the current blog to Jasper, and then figuring out how to crosspost from that blog to the Medium blog just seems like unnecessary work.

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davidmolina commented 8 years ago

Already over there.

On Apr 9, 2016, at 8:26 PM, John Hampton notifications@github.com wrote:

Closed #172.

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