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To quote Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror fame:

“I don’t care if you suck at writing. I don’t care if nobody reads your blog. I don’t care if you have nothing interesting to say. If you can demonstrate a willingness to write, and a desire to keep continually improving your writing, you will eventually be successful.”

How this applies to us

We began blogging at SlickEdit a little over a year ago. Not written by a single person, the blog is a group effort authored by the dev and support teams. Our goal for the blog was to better connect with the developer community at large and to become an active participant in online discussions . The ‘Hello World’ blog gave us the perfect platform to share our thoughts, opinions, and expertise on a myriad of technical issues.

From software management and best practices to managing the first days on the job, the SlickEdit team has shared their thoughts, tips, real world experiences, and genuine joy of coding with the online community. I am very happy to say that the blog has been a huge success. With hundreds of thousands of visitors from over 176 countries and territories, the SlickEdit blog has outperformed our wildest expectations.

What has been really exciting are the hundreds of comments we have received on the blog, as well as link backs, that have really allowed us to connect and interact with the online community – the whole purpose of the blog to begin with. On the social media side, we have been Dugg, Reditted, StumbledUpon, Dzoned, DotNetKicked, Delicioused, Hacker Newsed, etc… more times than I can count. Exciting stuff and we can’t thank you enough.