More evidence on value of user-generated content

Graham Jones
Content Marketing, User Generated Content
21st November 2006
Last edited: 15th June 2015

As if the power of Google, MySpace and other big players isn’t enough to convince you of the need for user-generated content, consider a report in this week’s New Media Age magazine. A report on page 6 is headlined News International seeks user content for new free-paper site. The story goes on to report the fact that The London Paper is focusing on user-generated content for its online edition. According to the paper’s online editor, James Law, they want to steer away from merely repeating the content of the printed newspaper. User-generated content allows them to do just that.

Graham Jones

Graham Jones is an Internet Psychologist who studies the way people use the online world, in particular how people engage with businesses. He uses this knowledge to help companies improve their online connections to their customers and potential customers and offers consultancy, workshops, masterclasses and webinars. He also speaks regularly at conferences and business events. Graham is an award-winning writer and the author of 32 books, several of which are about various aspects of the Internet. For more information connect with me on Google+

Like this article?

Other posts that might be of interest

Business leaders still do not understand blogging

Leaders of corporate businesses still do not understand blogging. That’s the conclusion you can draw from a recent study of CEOs. The study reveals that half of the CEOs do not think that blogging is

Online statistics tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing like the truth

Internet business owners rightly want to know how well their web site is performing. Thankfully virtually every web site hosting package these days comes with statistics. However, these statistics are often misleading. Hits, for example,

Don’t plan for your future – it’s here already

Your future is in your hands – or at least the life coaches of the world would have us believe that. True enough, how we negotiate our way through life is down to each of

BBC Ulster consumer programme

Today I was on the BBC Ulster consumer affairs programme, On Your Behalf, where the presenter Linda McAuley quizzed me about email stress. I was doing the interview “down the line” from the Portsmouth satellite

© 2025 Graham Jones – B.Sc. (Hons), B.A. (Hons), Adv.Dip.Ed., MBPsS., M.Sc., M.Ed., FPSA, PSAE, FHEA, CMBE

124 City Road, London EC1V 2NX | Tel: 0118 336 9710

Affiliate Links: Some of the links in this website are affiliate links providing me with a small commission when you purchase an item. I only use affiliate links for products which I personally value. Amazon: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
Images: Images from Amazon, Canva, Fotolia, Free Digital Photos, Freepik,
FreeStockPhotos, Geograph, Pixabay, PxHere, StoryBlocks, Unsplash product suppliers or my own collection.