Basic Template with Ingredients for a Technical Blog

A good Technical Blog Post follows the Law Of Retention: repetition helps Retention

Some Questions on your Blog Post:

• Is your blog a frequently used resource for yourself and your readers? 
• Does it grow as you learn more - addressing different levels of questions?
• Is it short and informative while being complete and self-contained? 

Is your blog addressing The Readers Perspective?

1. What's in it for a Reader?
2. Tell 'em what you're going to Tell 'em.
3. Tell 'em.
   
4. Tell 'em what you just told 'em.
   
5. Further info.

Sample Blog Format: The final post may contain the following info in order of importance:

Why:

1. Rationale: How it will help the reader by reading this topic.
2. Summary: What this blog post talks about.
3. Audience: Type of people this post is meant for (general, students, professionals, admin, programmer)

What:

1. Screen-shots/diagrams/Photos/Videos which display the things in a tangible way.
2. Describe the basic "things" that are involved in the topic
3. Describe the useful/important inter-relations between the things

How:

1. howto configure these relations to get the necessary output
2. FAQs on common problems and solutions
3. How things work together (collected from various sources - blogs, forums, articles, books on the topic)
4. Source code snippets illustrating your ideas.

Reference Links: (Braindump of your browsing sessions.)

1. Introductions: Download sites, Tutorials, Blogs.
2. Detailed Info: Forum posts, Settings/Configuration notes, faqs, Howtos
   
3. References: Guides, Reference books with more in breadth and depth on different aspects of the topic.

See Also: Apprenticeship Patterns "Record-What-You-Learn" and "Share-What-You-Learn"