Hard to get started on Dreamwidth

[szabgab]

I guess, I have not yet figured out how to use DW.

I know how to post to my account, how to join a community and how to post to that community but I don't know why?

I mean I don't see a point in writing - especially asking questions - if there is no one reading it. So how can I get people read my entries? I tried to look for some ideas, maybe a dw_community that deals with this question but I could not find one. I found the list of official DreamWidth communities but the closest I found to what I am looking for was
dw_community_promo and maybe dw_nifty but neither is really what I want.

Maybe the problem is that I don't know anyone here. Well I know csjewell who invited me
here and I exchanged 2 e-mails with damned_colonial but I don't think I know anyone else here.

So how do I get knowing others here?

Comments

[cesy]

Unless you're unusual and/or a celebrity, the main way to get people reading is to read them first - most of the time, people make friends and read each other in a reciprocal way. So I'd suggest subscribing to anyone who looks interesting, comment on a couple of their entries, give it a day or two and see what happens.

There are a few techie-related communities on Dreamwidth - it looks like you've already found perl, and most of the others are mentioned on dw_community_promo at some point, so have a browse through the tags there.

However, most of the techie posts I've seen have been either Dreamwidth dev-related ones in official communities, or ones on personal journals. For instance, owl works at an IT company, as does afuna, and they both talk about their work occasionally on their journals. I'd suggest subscribing to both of them, or possibly just tracking certain tags for owl, as he/she also posts about other stuff. Other people who do a lot of programming include kareila, zorkian and janinedog, but they don't tend to talk about it as much.

I'd also suggest you post an entry in perl, saying hi and telling people about the Padre community you created.

write a how-to start in the community

[szabgab]

Thanks for the reply, I'll look around following you links and advice.

I think it would be nice if there was a post such as this reply, maybe slightly extended explaining to people who are new to such community sites on how to approach it.

Re: write a how-to start in the community

[cesy]

Actually, someone just filed a bug for that, probably prompted by your post given the timing, so something official should get written soon.

[zorkian]

cesy is right, easiest way to get people to read your content is to start reading theirs.

I do a lot of Perl/other programming personally, but I don't tend to talk about it every day. But I'd love to participate in discussions about it, if you write about it, or in perl, etc.

getting from my other blog?

[szabgab]

I tend to write quite a lot about Perl both technical and recently about community and business on my blog.
I don't think I should duplicate everything here but maybe
we should include a feed from
the ironman

What do you think?