Quality Content Comparative Analysis

There are plenty of ways to create content on the internet. Blogs, articles, videos, forums, and Q&A etc...
There is also on unexploited potential way that can be used to create quality content which is chatting.
Certainly there are pros and cons for each way. Below is a comparative analysis for each method:

Articles and blogs are maybe the most well known methods their advantage is that they are or might be complete and detailed with complete exposure of the domain or point of view. On the other side they are the less interactive. Despite that most of them have commenting features; it is rare to see true interaction between authors and readers.

Video content are now notorious with Youtube especially that there are plenty of people who are trying to provide quality videos. Consuming this type of content is by far easier than reading especially when presented in an appropriate manner. The problem of video content is mostly in availability of the topics. It is still far behind written text. Interactivity is not better than blogs, it consists only of viewers comments.

Forums and Q&A on other hand have better interactivity but less complete content. They are usually centered on a post or a question that people discuss and exchange opinion. The content is not really a detailed info rather than an exposure of a problem that the community is asked to contribute to the solution. Although the interactivity is higher however it is not in real-time. So the interest party must have enough patience before succeeding getting the community to be engaged in the solution.

Chatting has always been the fun thing and to meet other people generally from the opposite sex. However this does not have to be this way. People are usually interested in topics, this clearly seen in the comments on blogs or videos as described earlier. So chatting can be part of the quality content creation if it is presented accordingly. Any event, news or article can trigger a discussion between supporters and opponents. Services like www.SimpleConnexion.com give people the option to find others who are interested in a particular subject and exchange with them opinion in real time fashion and at the end publish the content of this discussion so that other people benefit from this opinion exchange.
The advantage of this method is that it is real-time; people get replies in a matter of seconds. It is challenging because a person can easily ask his peer to clarify his answer or opinion which means it creates a better understanding. The content of the discussion can be published as just explained.
The difficulty is to really find someone to chat on a specified topic at a particular time. This difficulty will be overcome as more and more people adopt this type of chatting.

In conclusion diversity of methods leads to richness and creativity as well as provides suitable ways for different people according to their preferences and needs.

Chatting or Blogging

This might seem odd to compare two distinct activities. One might think like comparing apples to oranges! Although at first this appears to be the case, but when looking closer, some similarities emerge to the surface.

Blogs (web logs) are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Most blogs are interactive, allowing visitors to leave comments and even message each other via widgets on the blogs and it is this interactivity that distinguishes them from other static websites.

On the other hand online chat can refer to any kind of communication over the Internet, but is primarily meant to refer to direct one-on-one chat or text-based group chat , using tools such as instant messengers, Internet Relay Chat, talkers and possibly multiple user dungeons (MUD)s. The expression online chat comes from the word chat which means "informal conversation".

So the differences between blogs and chat are persistency and formality. Blogs are persistent meaning they exist on a webpage and they can be accessed any time. They are also formal (at least a good part of them) and they address a whole audience and not a particular person. On the contrary, chat is transient, ephemeral; it does not live beyond the life of a discussion and of course the majority of the chat is informal.

Although differences seem to weigh considerably, similarities on the other hand exist. Blogging and chatting can both carry information that is valuable to others. Meaning, a person seeking a piece of information or looking to solve a problem, can find it either on a blog or in a chat room. The only concern related to the chat is that the info might have passed or not yet arrived so the timing is critical.

However, this can be solved by simply saving a discussion and convert it into an informal blog. This method offers good benefits to the reader because he will be seeing an interaction between two people and this means some specific questions and clarifications might be also evoked in the course of the discussion. To the person who is giving this information he is freed of the task of writing formal blog.

In this context www.SimpleConnexion.com is looking to promote this concept.

How to Write Original Content

Back to the early school days, it was very common that students were asked to construct a “meaningful” sentence using a verb such as “eat”. Usually most of the little girls and guys answer by “The boy eats an apple”. The sentence is grammatically correct; however the teacher was not happy seeing tens of similar copies. Same for search engines!

Search engines, just like teachers, do not like to see the same content recurring over and over for this reason they degrade its rank. However, you don’t need to be Shakespeare nor Einstein to be able to create an original content that pleases search engines.

Actually the original content is related to the writings and not to the subject. You really don’t have to come up with something totally new, creative and innovative. If you can this would be wonderful, but if you cannot it will not be a catastrophe.

Here are few steps to accomplish something original for your own blog:

1. Determine the area of interest on which you want to write
2. Search on the internet for articles, documentation, or even other blogs related to this subject
3. Read 3 or more of these articles and try to fully understand what they are saying
4. Take 15 min pause
5. Rewrite in your own way what you have understood from those readings
6. Congratulations, you have now an original content that search engines will like
   

If you are thinking this is might be somehow fraudulent, rest assured it is not! Quite on the contrary you are contributing to the general knowledge and culture of the people who are looking for the subject you wrote about.

In fact people have different ways for reading and assimilating the material they read. They might not be able to understand one article because it might be written in a way that is counterintuitive for them. This is why they will drop reading very fast and search for something similar. Because different people have different ways, there will be a group that will appreciate your article over others.

Therefore, your content has become original and useful.