Newsroom With A View

(Originally posted on Nov. 11, 2010)
Poynter.org has a good post today on ways to get people to contribute good content to your site. But I have a beef with the title, because many people are going to look at “content” and think the tips apply to getting people to send in stories, photos, video, etc. They apply to everything, from in-person conversation to interviews to simple comments on stories or Facebook updates all the way up; it’s just trickier online. (Ironically, tip No. 1 is to avoid using the term “user-generated content,” which I’d broaden to avoiding the word “content” as much as possible, though it can’t always be avoided.)