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Where Can You Post Your Technical Experiences?

Posted by Cliff on from the sharing-your-knowledge dept.

Dishwasha asks: "For the past several months I have spent an inordinate amount of time wrestling with video conferencing. The compatibility issues between different video conferencing equipment and network hardware are enough to make a seasoned network administrator pull their hair out. When it comes down to it, there's not a lot of good documentation on how to actually implement video conferencing. I'd like to help other people save time by sharing my experiences, but I don't have the time or resources to maintain what would ultimately be just a few unorganized web pages. Has anybody set up a website and/or forum for submitting general HOWTO's? I'd envision something similar to Linuxdoc but categorized by technology and moderated."

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  1. UseNet by FreeLinux · · Score: 2, Informative

    I would recommend that you ues UseNet for this. Write up your how-to or knowledgebase document so that it CLEARLY explains the problem and the appropriate steps to resolve it. For an example format get a knowledgebase article from Microsoft or Novell. Then post it to the appropriate newsgroup, making sure to use a clear simple title that acurately describes the issue (think about the keywords you searched for when you first encounterd the problem). Google takes care of the rest for you by archiving the message for posterity. Then, whenever you or anyone else needs that information again, it is a simple matter of searching Google Groups for your post.

  2. The Web is a DB by mugnyte · · Score: 2, Informative
    Using the current method of unorganized information transfer:

    Compile it into an easy-to-read website with minimal reliance on anything more than JPG and HTML.

    Find a moderate web host that can scale when you need it

    Submit this page with a fully relevant meta/title tag to the leading search engines.

    Sit back and watch sites mirror yours and the content appears zipped up on the P2Ps. Branched/Appended version will flower everywhere.

    Congratulations! You've just provided valuable content to the world without imposing any new barriers of entry.

    mug

  3. Re:Serious Question... by itwerx · · Score: 2, Informative

    How do you "submit to Google" [obvious double entendre/sexual innuendo notwithstanding]?

    Is there a form you can fill out...[snip]

    At risk of responding to a troll (and getting modded Flamebait :)

    If you go to the Google main page and click on "Services and Tools" (pretty logical so far) you'll find a link to a "Site Map".
    And if you click on that you'll see a link to a submission form in the lower right-hand corner.

    There, that wasn't so hard was it?

    (In other news detailed instructions were given for nose-blowing and ass-wiping.)