Writing Style and Content
You are experts in Scrum and related agile techniques and readers find great value in reading your thoughts to learn from them. The Scrum.org blog is seen as an educational resource based on real-world experience which provides editorial content and opinions to help readers improve how they work. For this reason, we ask that you stick to educating rather than marketing. Please limit the promotion (of a class, your website, event, etc.) to a maximum of one promotion per blog and we ask that you keep it at the end of the post in text only (one link is okay, but no graphics please). It could be a link to your bio or website to learn more about you or your organization, for example.
Of course you can talk about yourself and add credibility as you describe the solution you are discussing. Use examples and discuss the reasoning behind them. Please do not only copy paste from courseware or the Scrum Guide, make it your own, the readers are here to learn from you and want your thoughts and interpretations on what they are looking for. Videos are great as are pictures to help emphasize your points. Feel free to Vlog and if you do, please summarize that video in the blog article to provide context rather than posting the video alone.
If you are pointing to something you have done, learned, read, etc. please summarize it and talk about you opinion as to why it is valuable or not rather than pointing to the content without that context. The value to your readers is your opinions and thoughts.
If you choose to delete a blog for any reason, please let us know in advance so that we are aware as we repurpose blogs in many places.
And now for a picture of David S Pumpkins. He's his own thang!
Posting a Blog
To post a new blog entry or manage your existing posts:
- Click login to the Scrum.org website using your trainer login and password
- Click the dropdown next to your Profile Name
- Click Blogs
- Click New Post to open a page where you can then manage your blog content.
- Blogs have two states; Draft and Published which you can find at the bottom of the Blog creation page.
- Draft blogs are only visible from your account. They are not accessible to the general public or search engines.
- Published blogs are accessible to the public, will be crawled by search engines and socialized.
- You must click Save to persist any edits made to your post.
One edge case to be aware of is the risk of creating draft revisions that look live, but are not published. Once a blog has been published, you can edit the post and place it back into Draft. If you save as Draft, the original blog is still published and only the revisions will be held in draft as you cannot unpublish a blog once it has been published. To publish the updates, you must be sure that the Save As says "Published" when saving.