Until few months back, every time I search Google for something, I some how used to feel bad about myself. There are lot of people contributing lots of good stuff every minute and all this material helps me in some form or the other every day. I never contributed anything useful in blogs, technical websites or knowledge base until few months back. The excuse I used to give myself is, I am not so expressive especially when I have to write my thoughts and I am too busy. These are true to some extent but not blockers (excuse me for my testing language - I am used to this) to contribute.
Coming to another story... few months back, I want to check how many entries will be listed in Google when I search for my name (Srinivas Kantipudi) . To my surprise, there are quiet a few entries (both in web tab and images tab), some because of the presentation that I did in Eclipse Summit and some because of my contribution in Progress communities. My next thought was, how can I increase this count. I just have to contribute whatever little I know in various places. So I started with a blog (I have been postponing this idea since years) and then searched for some active testing sites and started contributing wherever I can. In few months, I see at least two pages when i type my name in Google. Surprisingly my blog had already started showing up in first page, a very nice feeling when i saw this.
Now I don't have to feel guilty when i Google for information and at the same time I am marketing myself by contributing whatever little I know :).
Coming to another story... few months back, I want to check how many entries will be listed in Google when I search for my name (Srinivas Kantipudi) . To my surprise, there are quiet a few entries (both in web tab and images tab), some because of the presentation that I did in Eclipse Summit and some because of my contribution in Progress communities. My next thought was, how can I increase this count. I just have to contribute whatever little I know in various places. So I started with a blog (I have been postponing this idea since years) and then searched for some active testing sites and started contributing wherever I can. In few months, I see at least two pages when i type my name in Google. Surprisingly my blog had already started showing up in first page, a very nice feeling when i saw this.
Now I don't have to feel guilty when i Google for information and at the same time I am marketing myself by contributing whatever little I know :).
