Wall-Skills.com in 2014 Posted on Jan 1, 2014 by Roland in Meta |

Happy New Year! We (Corinna and Roland) hope that you had great holidays and spent the time with your loved ones.

The last weeks were a blast for us: we kicked off the Wall-Skills Advent calendar, not knowing if we would have enough content, time and breath – and if anyone would even read. So we published, waited – and were blown away by thousands of readers we had! Although the number of readers strongly depended on the topic (and how close we were to Christmas) we reached at least hundred visitors every day – and sometimes several thousands in only a few hours:

In case you are interested, the first “hill” is SOLID, the first spike is devOps, and the mountain consists of AdminZen, Four Sides of a Message (best post so far with 4400 views in one day) and … as a Service. As you can see, the attention ceased towards Christmas eve.

We learned that our content is helpful, it is actually read and used – and that producing, publishing and waiting for your reactions is a lot of fun =) So we do want to continue with Wall Skills – and for that, we need your help!

What topics would you like to see here at Wall Skills? What’s interesting? What do you need your team to learn or what do you want to remind yourself of repeatedly until it sticks? Are there any other things you would change here? We already plan to put more of the content of the 1-pagers into the description itself, to better grasp the content and to be indexable by search machines. Additionally we wonder if we should include non-English 1-pagers … Do you know of great content that would fit in here? We post finished 1-pagers as”external” content (like AdminZen). Or we can turn existing articles into pretty PDFs. In our experience most bloggers out there produce great content and are happy when we approach them to present their knowledge in the Wall-Skills format. So tell is if you know interesting content and we will approach the authors to collaborate. Would you like to contribute to Wall-Skills yourself? We have created a style guide and templates you can use to create 1-pagers in Wall-Skills style: maybe you have certain topics that you want to present like all the other Wall-Skills you already hung up everywhere in your office: take the template, and create your own! And of course we would be happy if you share them here! Send them via email to ws@wall-skills.com.

We will definitely post a new resource every other week on Wednesdays. If you have lots of suggestions and input we might be able to make it every week. It’s up to you 🙂 Please, start suggesting now in the comments!