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No Monopoly on Lousy Content

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Are content farms just convenient whipping boys for bloggers and mainstream media alike? When the likes of Demand Media and Associated Content aren’t being flayed for underpaying writers, they are criticized for producing lousy content. Increasingly the Internet is a gigantic content farm.

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The Loneliness of the Digital Content Creator: Validating Your Work

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The post wasn’t picked up, tweeted about on Twitter, shared, liked on Facebook and only generated a few (if any) comments. Validation came not from readers as much as from “publishers, editors and fellow content creators. Joel’s take on this is that “content creation can be a humiliating process.” I don’t disagree.

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The Loneliness of the Digital Content Creator: Validating Your Work

B2B Memes

The post wasn’t picked up, tweeted about on Twitter, shared, liked on Facebook and only generated a few (if any) comments. Validation came not from readers as much as from “publishers, editors and fellow content creators. Joel’s take on this is that “content creation can be a humiliating process.” I don’t disagree.

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5 Keys to Effective B2B Content

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If content marketers hope to pick up the mantle of the writers and editors behind these endangered magazines, they will need to study the best and brightest of them (or better yet, hire them). By applying them to their own writing, content marketers can keep the B2B publishing flame burning brightly.

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Three Ways to Annoy People and Produce Great Content

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At first glance, the idea behind content marketing is straightforward and appealing: by publishing great content, you can win friends, influence people, and achieve your marketing goals. The problem is this: To make great content, you sometimes have to be a wee bit obnoxious. Don’t let that stop you. Care about details.

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It’s Time to Embrace Editorial as a Profit Center

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Commercial, for-profit publishing is really a process of generating one form of currency—attention—and converting it into another—money—via advertising or subscriptions. Editorial that generates attention, therefore, generates profits. Among the many challenges publishers face today, the first is getting and keeping attention.

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Collaboration vs. Control: Six New-Media Principles, No. 2

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Many print veterans, for instance, have difficulty accepting the idea that good editorial content can be provided by readers volunteering their work. To survive in the new-media era, journalists must not simply accept user-generated content, but enable it; they must aim to collaborate in the conversation, not to control it.

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