My personal publishing space

After several unsuccessful attempts in the past, I decided to create a personal publishing space. Why not just talk about a blog? Because it won’t just be a space for posting blog posts. There will also be short fiction texts, as well as notes, to quickly share a link or an idea.

My favorite subjects

Much of what I plan to write is related to my work: content design, UX, Government of Canada web presence and service delivery, and evidence-based continuous improvement).

I intend to do it while respecting my code of ethics, of course (I want to write a post on this question, but in the meantime this post written by Sean Boots reflects my position quite well: Principles for blogging as a public servant.

But I will not limit myself to my work, particularly in the Fiction section. I’ll talk about whatever I want to, in my own way.

In short, this should be a rather eclectic publishing space.

In French… and in English

After much thought, I decided to publish in both languages. At first, I had thought of writing in English, so that I would be understood by the majority. Then I thought about publishing only in French, my mother tongue. Then I finally decided to publish in both languages.

Why?

First, several federal public servants publish this type of text. I am thinking among others of Sean Boots, Honey Dacanay, Paul Craig. and Andrea Hill. To my knowledge, the vast majority of these texts are published in English only. I have long said that I would like to see these texts published in both languages. I decided to show that it was possible.

Publishing in both languages is my way of injecting a bit of the second official language into the public space.

Also, I spend my days working in English. Writing in my mother tongue is a pleasure that I rarely allow myself.

So, I will write in French, and do my best to translate and publish in both languages.

A Jekyll site, published on GitHub

A few technical notes in closing.

I decided to build this space using Jekyll, publishing directly to GitHub. It’s simple to use, free and open. Also, I wanted a very minimalistic design, to put emphasis on the text.

I started from Jekyll Now, and created my own GitHub repository.

Enjoy your reading!