Content Creation
AboutUs' engages in a variety of efforts to create and enhance content on our site. These efforts can be broken down into four distinct categories based both on the type of content they concern and their source of generation.
- One-off: single articles to be written
- Portals:
- Company centric: multi-page project on a company
- Concept centric: multi-page project surrounding a concept
- Common Answers: organizing content creation efforts based on common queries
History
Beginning around August '06, our content creation efforts focused on hiring out one-off articles. Over the past 11 months we've covered:
- The Alexa top 500+ websites (with nearly full coverage of the top 1000)
- The top 100 US Universities and Colleges
- The Fortune 500 (nearing the top 700 as of 7-26-07)
Tak managed this effort for the first few months and then gradually handed it off to Chris in early '07.
Current Efforts
One-Off's
- Chris is currently hiring out approximately 150 articles per week via Rentacoder.com. Current hiring includes companies ranked between 500 and 700 on the Fortune 1000 list.
Portals
- LASIK: Obed and Asad are working in conjunction with TedErnst and ChrisBabson to perfect city listings pages and ready them for the sales effort. As part of the continual effort, general conten (i.e. non-location specific content) in the portal is undergoing constant maintenance.
- Election Portal: Kasey Goltra is working in conjunction with Asad Butt, Kristina Weis, and Blake Hinkley to maintain and update this portal.
- Projects:WikiAnatomy: Kasey Goltra, TakKendrick, Isabel Anheier, KristinaWeis, JohnStanton and MarkDilley are currently putting the final touches on this project.
For more information on specific projects please see the individual project pages by clicking on the links above. All content work figures into OurWork, so visit this page to see how each employee is focusing their time.
The Future of Content Creation: Common Answers
As we move forward, the list of content to create/massage will be derived according to CommonAnswers.