The ability to organize, manipulate, and configure content after having been uploaded or added should be a key portion of preparing online content in accordance with your online strategy.
Success Tip: Access and organization of your content should both be important to you. Quick access without searching makes for the ideal system. An unorganized channel or network of information isn’t going to help you when crowded with content. If you cant have simple, organized access to manage your content within your own member area, customers wont be able to make sense of your content either.
Most content hosts use the channel approach to organize your content. This works fine when you only have a few videos. Once there are a number of videos, your channel will quickly become difficult for you to manage as well as for your customers. A search function assumes that your customer will be able to make the proper associations among content that is related.
We prefer the workspace approach with content that can be quickly organized into folders using very simple drag and drop. This allows content that isn’t similar to be informally grouped together based on relationships that you define (by location, property, theme, etc.) This is not only a great way to prepare associated content for syndication and discovery but also a way to help you quickly find your content in your member area when there are more than a few videos, documents, and other content.
Success Tip: Work with a system that helps you configure as much as possible as part of the upload or adding content process. Really technical configurations should be presented in a very non-technical way.
Your platform should be able to help you configure your content as early in the process as possible and configure the minimum amount needed to automatically configure the rest of the settings. For instance, vidlisting uses latitude and longitude to understand the distance relationship among content items and members. This is configured by having a simple drop down of locations rather than asking you to enter the lat and long information.
Another example is that identifying an uploaded video as a video podcast sets off a long chain of configuration events that you never see simply from that simple identification. This is far more simple than treating every content item equally and expecting you to make the associations or configurations manually at some later time.
Success Tip: Constant manual configuration of content takes away from your core competency – selling properties and services. Use the broad configuration choices to automatically configure your content for you.
Your time is valuable. If a content platform requires you to manually configure each piece of content, it likely isn’t helping you to be successful.
At Vidlisting, you can set broad configurations for your content. This means that manual configurations can be reserved for individual exceptions.
Drag And Drop Content Into Personalized Folders
Geotag Content To Be Identified With A Local Area
My Content Tab - Viewing And Organizing Your Member Workspace Content Without Logging In
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