The Web Economy/05

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Content Is King

This is a lesson part of the module The Web Economy out of the Open Source ERP/Executive Diploma course conducted by a private university.

Topics

• There are some sites that attracts alot of traffic due to its content^[1]. They may not be the first movers, but they are visited for their content and soon become tops such as wikipedia.
• Possessing knowledge makes one king. It is the Knowledge economy. Those who does not know cannot really possess content.
• There are those that generate content through networking or a viral community^[2].
• Huge content pools may not appeal to most people. But they possesss a long tail^[3] such as in the case of Amazon.com.
• Many are copycats of others' contents. They do not produce or solicit responses and so end up at the bottom of the well.

Discussion

• Name a site that uses content to attract you.
• How does the site makes you return again?
• Compare and differentiate between such a site with another site that you often visit.
• More and more sites know about the content game. Are there anything new they must do to be better at it?

Activities

• Publish your works in an attractive manner in your user page, stating your own views and findings providing links to your sources. Use the talk page here to score marks.
• Create or edit sub-pages of course materials within wikiversity.
• Discuss in the forum (link shall be provided) by offering your ideas and answering or comment on others' postings.

References

1. ↑ http://www.applecraft.co.uk/article-content.htm
2. ↑ http://moblogsmoproblems.blogspot.com/2006/05/creating-viral-community.html
3. ↑ http://www.amazon.com/Long-Tail-Future-Business-Selling/dp/1401302378

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