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4:20 AM

It's been 3 months, so I thought I'd unearth this meta post about creating a Workplace blog.

It's possible for a Stack Exchange site to get it's own blog provided we follow some steps to prove a couple things: We want it We can make it happen I know some of our most active members like the idea of a site blog so I thought I'd get the ball rolling. Beta is not too soon to blog, but we...

I really like @YannisRizos's suggestions, and he has experience with the Programming blog. We also have, tentatively, two people who have volunteered to be blog contributors.

Who else would like to volunteer?

11 hours later…

Rachel

2:57 PM

@jmort253 Just a comment about your answer there, I think a weekly schedule is too frequent

I was part of the Programmers blog in the very beginning before I stopped participating in that site, and it's too hard to find that many writers to do that many articles

In addition, it's nice to give each article a little more than a week to be seen

1 hour later…

Rachel

4:10 PM

I'd like to try and build a canonical "how can I evaluate if a certificate will help my career or not" question since we seem to get quite a few "is this certificate worth it" questions on here. Would that be OK?

1 hour later…

Rachel

5:31 PM

Well I posted one anyways along with my best attempt at an answer. Please let me know if the question needs to be modified to stay open on this site, or to modify the answer to include more information if you can think of anything else

Q: How can I evaluate if an optional certificate will help my career or not?

There are many optional certificates out there that may help a career, but also many that are just a waste of time and money. What factors should I consider to determine if a certificate will help me in my career or not? What questions can I ask to help evaluate a certificate's worth to me? I'...

certification

Hrrmm I checked the box to make the answer a community wiki, but apparently that didn't work....

Maybe a mod can community-wiki it if other users help contribute to the answer?

jcmeloni

@Rachel i've converted it to wiki since you were going to do it originally, and let's just assume that people will want to help edit it (thinking positively!)

Rachel

@jcmeloni Thanks :) I'm not really an expert on certifications, but I felt I needed to at least begin an answer to get it going in the right direction and avoid getting closed

Yannis Rizos

@Rachel @jcmeloni Perhaps the question could benefit from the "insufficient explanation" post notice.

Rachel

I'm really hoping someone comes along and edits the answer to add actual facts to back up each of the bullet points

Yannis Rizos

@Rachel You should post that as a comment to the answer, encouraging people to edit (not everyone knows what CW is about).

Rachel

5:43 PM

@YannisRizos I threw a footnote on the answer itself

Yannis Rizos

@Rachel Well, it's Meta information, so strictly speaking it belongs in a comment, but the footnote works.

jcmeloni

5:56 PM

@YannisRizos I thought about that, but it seemed weird given the circumstances, and the footnote is there. We can make the footnote bigger or something.

Yannis Rizos

@jcmeloni Well if you apply the post notice, you'd have to remove the footnote, the post notice is the "official" version of the footnote.

...but it might make sense to wait for the first sub par answer to appear before you make things official.

jcmeloni

@YannisRizos right

1 hour later…

Ben Brocka

7:14 PM

@Rachel looks good so far. I forsee many duplicates in that post's future

Rachel

@BenBrocka I actually started writing a question like that a month or two ago, but wasn't exactly sure what to say so ended up discarding it

Beth also a great edit to the answer. I wish she was in chat so I could thank her :)

Yannis Rizos

@Rachel Editors get notified of @username comments, even if they haven't posted a comment to the post.

The username won't autocomplete, you'll have to write it, but an inbox notification will be generated.

Rachel

7:44 PM

@YannisRizos Thanks, I wasn't aware of that

Yannis Rizos

@Rachel It's one of the two exceptions to the "must have participated in the discussion to get notified" rule. The other one is moderators when we've closed a question.

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