Great content: what that means

by | Aug 12, 2014 | Clouds, Security, Technology, Web presence

Great content: What that means

This man is not Weird Al’s Father

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In July on a simple mission – find a better language resource I searched many sights. There are millions of good blogs and web sites. Most have genuinely fine information and stories that have an appeal. A lot of them have great content. It is great content that converts users from cause browsers into fans and buyers. Great content is defined as information often in the form of a story that has:

  • A welcoming feel.
  • A clear message.
  • Clean concise and easy to read text.
  • Memorable to the people that count.
  • Safe and easy access.

At the beginning of my quest, all I wanted was a word resource, dictionary or thesaurus. Disgusted  with all the clutter one had to put up with when trying to get a better grasp on language I threw up my hands and turned to DuckDuckGo – the privacy browser https://www.tekmarsolutions.com/privacy-in-search-engines/.  Great content needs <https> too, so people feel certain that they are really at the trusted provider’s site. It comes with assurances that we are not compromising our private information.

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The site I found was https://www.visualthesaurus.com. What made it great content for me was that it met all the bullet points above. Plus a story running in the sites blog section highlighting Weird Al’s Word Crimes. My family and wife’s family too is from northern Ohio. I believed the Polka King’s son was Al Yankovic. The Polka King being Freddie Yankovic pictured above. Makes sense right. Nevertheless, when I saw weird Al’s video on the site the great content gave me a personal connection.

The inner world had me liking the Visual Thesaurus right away. It turns out it is a great word resource. I was probably hooked at the HTTPS part but that is the thing about great contents it is not one thing but a mix of many. This video did not clinch the deal. It did not hurt my newfound site’s chances. According to a few clicks later Frankie is not Weird Al’s dad after all. The thing that made the video important was not just that it is smart.

In the Daily Beast John McWhorter reviews Weird Al’s video saying people should not take the accordion playing satirist too seriously. Some people probably do. The internet seems filled to gills with people out ridicule others. What?

McWhorter has a point. Great content for some folks is baloney for others. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/23/the-problem-with-weird-al-s-word-crimes-video.html.