How Can I Help Others?
Life October 3rd, 2008
One of my favorite bloggers, Leo over at Zen Habits put out a great post recently called Helping Others Helps You In The Long Run . Basically, he is (as usual) offering everything he can to help out his community of readers and fellow bloggers and knows that it is along the concept that givers gain. I absolutely agree and loved his idea so wanted to offer a similar thing here on LearnThis. I truly enjoy getting comments and love working with fellow bloggers to promote their sites, but I don’t get many other types of requests for my help. I would love to help in other ways so simply want to offer some suggestions as well as an open request to contact me privately (in the form on my about page) or as a comment so I can hopefully respond and do my part in whatever way I can!
Here are just 10 ideas I believe I can help others with and I’d love to see comments not only for requests but even just for more ideas. Here goes…
#1
An article idea that you would like me to research and write about. I have a long list of topics I have in mind but love to see ideas from others bloggers and my readers.
#2
Promotion for your own site or blog . Include your favorite article and I can provide a link to it!
#3
Mention of your service/product . Send me a note about what you’d like me to help you promote and I’ll put together an outline of those items to help promote it!
#4
Life Coaching in related areas to this site.
#5
Career Coaching to help you steer, excel and achieve in your career.
#6
Ideas for your own articles, blogs.
#7
Introductions to other bloggers / social media connections.
#8
Blogging questions , site setup, help with starting a blog and how to get it moving forward.
#9
Encouragement and positive help with any topic.
#10
Site review / suggestions for improvement.
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Mike King
October 8th, 2008 at 11:04 PM
You are a very abundant person. While I’m busy thinking of myself and my new blog, you’re offering to help. I am a believer that we give comes back to us. Funny how it’s so easy to lose sight of others. You have already given to me when we last exchanged emails and you recommended I get my “About Me” page up and running. Thanks for setting such a great example for so many of us and being willing to offer your talents.
October 8th, 2008 at 11:21 PM
Thanks B. Wilde, I do appreciate the compliment of you saying so. Still, don’t hesitate to ask if you need any help from me!
To be honest, I’m a little surprised to not get any requests yet?
October 28th, 2008 at 10:48 PM
Thanks Mike — you’re a gentleman. I know you were experimenting with C# couple of years back. I now have an opportunity to work with it, and was wondering if you could recommend me a good book. Something that will get me “up and running” real fast. Asking it here with the hope that this will benefit others as well. Thank you in advance.
October 28th, 2008 at 11:03 PM
Ah, Khalid, hi! Well, I certainly can’t say I got all that far with C#, I can really entirely on my team now to produce the code so I didn’t learn a lot of it. However, I did use a couple books:
Programming C# (2nd Edition) by O’Reilly
This one was a good reference book for syntax and to learn the basics. Pretty standard intro book if you ask me.
Introduction to Design Patterns in C# by Cooper (2002)
This one was much more of what I was looking for. Even though I don’t understand C# at a deep technical level, I know software design, and applying that into a new specific language was great with this book. It helped me to understand much more for discussions, designs and reviews with my team without getting into a detailed syntax level of discussion. I didn’t really read the entire thing, but certainly used it for building some simple apps and I skimmed it all to gain a broad level of understanding. Not sure if that’s what you are looking for, but it worked well for me. It’s old so don’t expect the latest tech to be covered, but it’s more for good design than it is to learn the language.
I hope that gives you something to start with. They perhaps have new books or editions out as well to consider. Let me know if I can do more to help on this subject, I’d be happy to! In fact, I’ll ask my team (of C# experts) to see what they would recommend and let you know if they have any as well. I know they are not big book readers though, that GenY internet age… 🙂