Hey Habr! I've known you for a very long time - since 2008, when I, then still not an IT specialist, discovered you through some crazy link. Do you know how it was? Opened, did not understand anything, closed. Then you began to get caught more and more often, I took a closer look, got a grasp, a year later I left for the IT sphere and ... a spark, a storm, madness. Today I want to confess my love to you and tell you about our friendship 🙂
How I met your Habr
I worked as an analyst in a telecom company (nickname - from there) and one of my functions was interaction with programmers: I wrote and wore technical specifications for them to create complex reports and even separate work applications for the commercial department. The dialogue was heavily structured and was usually reinforced on my part by a kilogram of gingerbread, cakes and chocolates, because I looked stupid with an economic education, and the programmers did not drink beer.
I read books on development and analysis, analyzed code fragments (I was interested in SQL) in order to somehow speak the same language with developers. At that time, IT was not yet such a wildly growing trend, and there was no immersion in the environment. Then I started reading Habr - first in full, then according to the selected hubs and tags (yes, I was the one who reads the tags). And it spun. I went to study at a two-year software development school and, although I didn’t become a programmer, I understood the topic from the very bottom, defended my thesis with my real program and became equal with these terrible ACS people. So equal that he became the holder of the implementation of the most complex ERP by the commercial department in terms of sales. It was a busy, wild year, but I managed - largely because thanks to Habr, I plunged into the depths of many issues, learned to read the comments, cleared what pluralism of opinions is in IT (oh!).
It is July 29, 2011. My friend could not get an invite in any way, and the head of the development department could not cope with this either. Their articles were rejected one by one. I said, "I bet I'll get an invite?" and sat down at the first . On August 1, 2011, a UFO extended its beam to me and took me aboard its dish - Sudo Null IT News It is a pity that the dispute was of interest, I could get hold of a box of chocolates.
In general, for the most part I read Habr, sometimes I tried to write news with some kind of analytics, all attempts were successful. I became a testing engineer, mastered many valuable skills, again in the usual way - according to articles from Habr. It was cool, but money is cooler - and I returned to commerce. It's time to learn Habr from the other side.
Habr corporate
As an author, I have written for several company blogs (including the blog of the one where I worked). I will not go into details of what and how - this is not particularly interesting, there are many of them. I’d rather tell you what shock and awe Habr causes most companies 🙂
First of all, Habr is efficient. With the right amount of effort, anything can be accomplished, from generating leads for sales to building a personal executive brand to finding the very best employees in the entire industry (or just the right ones). But this is a thorny path, which you can only go through by laying your own track. If you copy someone or act the same as on other sites, it will be a fiasco, bros.
Yes, Habr is terrible. Especially if you go into the water, not knowing the ford.
- If you lie, you will certainly be exposed and it will be an indelible shame. I can't be sure, but I think there are companies that, in principle, have faltered or, on the contrary, have grown because of Habr.
- If you don't know the topic you're writing about but want to get into a trend, it will hurt.
- If your blog is about advertising and press releases without any valuable and useful information, get ready: you will be loaded with minuses.
- If you are not ready for an adequate response to criticism in the comments, to a balanced dialogue with the most terrible trolls, you will drown even the best material in the world.
- If you don’t understand what kind of audience you have, pass by or try to learn and find out, since Habr itself provides opportunities for this. Nothing is a secret, analyze, read, watch the video and delve into it.
Compliance with these simple rules guarantees a stable plus under the corporate posts of your company (and life is easier with them, these are just signs of general adequacy). Moreover, almost any company can find its audience and write cool. Fortunately, there are enough examples.
The most valuable thing in Habré is users
But everything would not be so if it were not for your people, Habr. Trolls and assistants, the smartest and "smartest", Grammar Nazis, techno-Nazis, bores and ironic villains, extra-class specialists and beginners, bosses and subordinates, PR people and HRs, legends and newcomers from the Sandbox.
“Habr, in fact, is a really self-regulating community that copies our behavior in reality,” this is how I would like to continue my text, but this is not so. I know real Habr users who are silent and introverts in life, but have a couple of thousand comments on Habré, I know really wonderful and intelligent guys who behave ... uh ... somewhat unbridled on Habré. And this is good - because many of us can be a little different on Habré, write about topics that we can’t talk about, discuss with those who we can’t meet in life. Habr is a small life 🙂
I love Habr for...
… fruitful discussions and interesting comments.
… for informativeness and versatility, for a different level of information on all IT issues.
… for those company blogs that provide cool information that you don’t have to pay for: read without limits, apply, take ideas.
… for tough discussions in which you hone your skills in dialogue and the ability to use sarcasm, rather than swearing and insults.
… for constant and dynamic development, for dialogue with users — have many such Internet projects passed their ten-year milestone? And Habr and the 20-year-old will pass.
... his team, which we know little and rarely see, but it is invisibly always with us and makes Habr cooler and more modern.
… for all its logic, uniqueness and openness.
Habr, I wish you not to be the same, but to change with the times, to keep your best undertakings, to be different and cozy, diverse and united.
Habr, I love you!
Source: habr.com