Comments on: The Methods to My Madness - Creating Content http://www.nerdynomad.com/2007/09/17/the-methods-to-my-madness-creating-content/ Backpacking around the world on my income from the internet. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:09:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Kirsty http://www.nerdynomad.com/2007/09/17/the-methods-to-my-madness-creating-content/#comment-121 Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:21:32 +0000 http://www.nerdynomad.com/2007/09/17/the-methods-to-my-madness-creating-content/#comment-121 Interesting points about the user generate content WJM. I'll be launching a forum with my next site but I think I might wait until the site gets to a certain number of users per day or until I start getting emails from people asking questions. I think forums are a pain in the neck mostly but I also think they're a great way to let people help other people, especially with things I don't know the answers to. The whole point of the site is to give people information they're looking for, so having a forum makes sense if other people are able to chime in now and then with info I don't have. I'll write stuff until I have enough content to put the site up without it looking empty. Sort of a bare bones approach just to get it into Google and aging with them. I think getting a site out there as soon as you can is important, but I won't promote it at all at this stage. I'll add to it in spurts and once I'm happy that it's suseful resource that I'm proud of I'll unleash the promotion fury... which usually isn't all that furious. Steve and Mark you're totally right. The site's topic should be something you're passionate about and it will make writing fun. Plus you'll keep learning new things and if you love the topic then that's a bonus. Interesting points about the user generate content WJM. I’ll be launching a forum with my next site but I think I might wait until the site gets to a certain number of users per day or until I start getting emails from people asking questions. I think forums are a pain in the neck mostly but I also think they’re a great way to let people help other people, especially with things I don’t know the answers to. The whole point of the site is to give people information they’re looking for, so having a forum makes sense if other people are able to chime in now and then with info I don’t have.

I’ll write stuff until I have enough content to put the site up without it looking empty. Sort of a bare bones approach just to get it into Google and aging with them. I think getting a site out there as soon as you can is important, but I won’t promote it at all at this stage. I’ll add to it in spurts and once I’m happy that it’s suseful resource that I’m proud of I’ll unleash the promotion fury… which usually isn’t all that furious.

Steve and Mark you’re totally right. The site’s topic should be something you’re passionate about and it will make writing fun. Plus you’ll keep learning new things and if you love the topic then that’s a bonus.

]]> by: Mark Schoneveld http://www.nerdynomad.com/2007/09/17/the-methods-to-my-madness-creating-content/#comment-119 Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:11:58 +0000 http://www.nerdynomad.com/2007/09/17/the-methods-to-my-madness-creating-content/#comment-119 Excellent. But don't forget to do it 'cuz you love it. Too many people are 'just trying to get seen' above the masses. But if you love what you're creating, that could be good enough. Excellent. But don’t forget to do it ‘cuz you love it. Too many people are ‘just trying to get seen’ above the masses. But if you love what you’re creating, that could be good enough.

]]> by: Steve http://www.nerdynomad.com/2007/09/17/the-methods-to-my-madness-creating-content/#comment-117 Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:36:46 +0000 http://www.nerdynomad.com/2007/09/17/the-methods-to-my-madness-creating-content/#comment-117 Plus - when you write about something that you are really interested in, it tends to write itself for you. The ideas generate that much faster. Plus - when you write about something that you are really interested in, it tends to write itself for you. The ideas generate that much faster.

]]> by: Webjourneyman http://www.nerdynomad.com/2007/09/17/the-methods-to-my-madness-creating-content/#comment-116 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:34:47 +0000 http://www.nerdynomad.com/2007/09/17/the-methods-to-my-madness-creating-content/#comment-116 Oh and good post. I really sat up and took notice, especially on writing untill you have enough stuff to divide into folders that you then model your navigation after. That's how you make your current sites and update them, right? Or do you routinely write away untill you have enough content for a new site to lauch into cyberspace? Oh and good post. I really sat up and took notice, especially on writing untill you have enough stuff to divide into folders that you then model your navigation after.
That’s how you make your current sites and update them, right? Or do you routinely write away untill you have enough content for a new site to lauch into cyberspace?

]]> by: Webjourneyman http://www.nerdynomad.com/2007/09/17/the-methods-to-my-madness-creating-content/#comment-115 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:20:56 +0000 http://www.nerdynomad.com/2007/09/17/the-methods-to-my-madness-creating-content/#comment-115 In regards to user generated content, I have this idea that could work if I only wrote it alone but would be so much better if the readers would contribute. But I myself shy away from requests of contributing on blogs and websites and rarely do so (except comments, they are user generated contendt too). I think a sit must have a critical mass of readers for it to work. Perhaps one method of deciding when to solicit written contributions would work. It is basicly the same as a software house I heard about operates. They will create some software and release it. Instead of thinking up all the cool features and functions to be added in the next version, they wait untill so and so many users have actually requested the thing, then they start working on it. The website equalent would be to wait untill somebody actually asked for a forum before putting it up, and waiting untill somebody asked to if (s)he could contribute, before putting up a contact form along with writers guidelines for that purpose. I've also been thinking about gizmos to attract readers/visitors but I thought it would be out of my range to pay someone to program it. Twenty five dollars seems really cheap, what kind of gizmo is it and how did you find someone to do it for you? If you used elance or rentacoder or similar what type of specialists did you look for and from how many applications could you select? In regards to user generated content, I have this idea that could work if I only wrote it alone but would be so much better if the readers would contribute. But I myself shy away from requests of contributing on blogs and websites and rarely do so (except comments, they are user generated contendt too).

I think a sit must have a critical mass of readers for it to work. Perhaps one method of deciding when to solicit written contributions would work. It is basicly the same as a software house I heard about operates.

They will create some software and release it. Instead of thinking up all the cool features and functions to be added in the next version, they wait untill so and so many users have actually requested the thing, then they start working on it.

The website equalent would be to wait untill somebody actually asked for a forum before putting it up, and waiting untill somebody asked to if (s)he could contribute, before putting up a contact form along with writers guidelines for that purpose.

I’ve also been thinking about gizmos to attract readers/visitors but I thought it would be out of my range to pay someone to program it. Twenty five dollars seems really cheap, what kind of gizmo is it and how did you find someone to do it for you? If you used elance or rentacoder or similar what type of specialists did you look for and from how many applications could you select?

]]> by: Rhys http://www.nerdynomad.com/2007/09/17/the-methods-to-my-madness-creating-content/#comment-114 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:25:39 +0000 http://www.nerdynomad.com/2007/09/17/the-methods-to-my-madness-creating-content/#comment-114 I couldn't agree more. Writing content is probably the best way of getting your blog seen. I've been surprised at the response of my "Track Your RSS Subscriber's" Article, been really popular, probably because I thought about the article (I get lazy too!) I couldn’t agree more. Writing content is probably the best way of getting your blog seen. I’ve been surprised at the response of my “Track Your RSS Subscriber’s” Article, been really popular, probably because I thought about the article (I get lazy too!)

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