Project BI bloggers – Analysis in PowerPivot (ex-Gemini)

On 2nd of September, I watched a marathon of SQL Server sessions named “24 Hours of PASS”. At least one small part of it. One session that made me think was Steve Jones’ Building a better blog. I wanted to learn few tricks about blogging in order to make mine a better place. What surprised me was Steve’s advice to blog about everything you do, in order to show others what topics you covered so far, regardless whether it was covered by someone else before or not. Now, I simply couldn’t agree with that. For me, writing a blog article, and by that I don’t mean a short announcement or similar, is writing about something others haven’t done so far or at least, not in that way. It’s about creating something new, a challenge to convert ideas in practice and demonstrate it in public. Otherwise, what’s the point in duplicate content? Then again, maybe I just don’t understand the point in having a blog.

And so I thought to myself, surely there must be several types of bloggers. One, for instance, that act as messengers, concentrating mostly on what’s new and what’s considered to be best practice. News and knowledge aggregators, we might call them. Then, there are occasional practitioners, people who don’t blog often and rarely do so regarding news. When they blog, it’s mostly about something they’ve done recently and found interesting to share. Next, there are regular bloggers, who post weekly if not often, regardless of what, just to keep the pace. And so on. Which makes me think. Could we perform a real-life analysis on this topic? Could we analyze bloggers writing about Business Intelligence? Why not, I know a good place where this kind of information can be obtained. Our precious - SSAS-Info.com portal, hosted by Vidas Matelis.

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