{"id":9386,"date":"2014-08-12T12:48:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T16:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exob2b.com\/?post_type=post&#038;p=9386"},"modified":"2023-06-14T10:12:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T14:12:57","slug":"word-content-as-clear-as-mud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exob2b.com\/en\/word-content-as-clear-as-mud\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;word&#8221; content is as clear as mud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a &#8220;content writer&#8221;, my role and my job are to &#8220;create content&#8221;. Yes, but what else? It\u2019s to imagine, to shape things that will interest audiences and people&nbsp;with my little hands.<\/p>\n<p>As for marketing, when you say content, you mean content strategy. It comes with expectations and objectives. In other words, what I shape with my little hands has to be effective.<\/p>\n<p>But if you think about it, the word &#8220;content&#8221; means everything&#8230; therefore it means nothing at all. So you can expect amalgams or absurdities in your &#8220;content&#8221; which, unfortunately, will interest no one.<\/p>\n<p>Content itself is its own enemy. In fact, content is <em>stuff<\/em>&nbsp; we publish and broadcast online. It may take different forms (a blog post like this one, a video, messages on social networks or a publication), but it usually has one purpose in the end: promotion. This may even sound cynical &#8211; remember the dictatorship keywords prevailing on quality, for example.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the use of a word too vague and imprecise is quite symptomatic.<\/p>\n<p>We create &#8220;content&#8221; instead writing articles (with angles, ideas and a reflection). The very idea of \u200b\u200b&#8221;creating content&#8221; refers to an industry term almost as if the brain was a small &#8220;content&#8221; factory, a tool to manufacture this <em>stuff<\/em>&nbsp;which is then broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>We almost reach the point where we forget our own interest, content passes through our heads and we write it because we have to &#8220;create content&#8221;, even if we have nothing to say. One also finds behind this word, the idea of an expiry date, ready to throw away. One consumes a text or a video and forgets it right away.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, the content is running in circles and completely forgets its original purpose. The basic marketing questions are forgotten. Does this interest anybody? If so, who?<\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, such a classification is understandable. It is a way to put together many different forms of expression and transmission of information. But behind all this, &#8220;content creation&#8221; encourages a race to the bottom. 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