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#BU-02-04 How to Create Great Online Content

  • Categories
    Business
  • Duration
    12h
  • Total Enrolled
    7
  • Last Update
    September 15, 2020

About Course

University of Leeds

Description

Master the art of creating successful online content for your business

What makes truly effective online content? On this course, you’ll find out how to create engaging content that meets your goals.

You’ll learn the value of delivering the right message to the right audience at the right time, and consider the importance of tone, style and format.

You’ll also hear from industry professionals on how to structure content plans and how to approach content creation for different platforms.

Finally, you’ll learn how to structure a content plan to respond to a specific brief.

 

Who will you learn with?

Meg Pickard

Digital content/community/ transformation consultant, facilitator and trainer with 22+ years of industry experience.
Also passionate about neurodiversity and ethical business.
Drinks a lot of tea.

 

 

Who developed the course?

University of Leeds

As one of the UK’s largest research-based universities, the University of Leeds is a member of the prestigious Russell Group and a centre of excellence for teaching.

 

What Will I Learn?

  • Interpret the messaging and intention behind online content
  • Evaluate the use of tone and language in communication
  • Describe how various media formats are used to create compelling online content
  • Identify suitable content format for a particular purpose
  • Describe key considerations for creating online content in a variety of media
  • Apply suitable tones and techniques to communicate a message effectively

Topics for this course

12 Lessons12h


What does online content mean to you??

These first steps get you started thinking about content. You’ll explore what makes good content, and how to use language, tone and style to help deliver your content’s objectives.
Welcome to the course00:01:32

Introduce yourself


What is the purpose of your content??

In this activity, you will look at how content can help achieve objectives and influence audience behaviour and sentiment.
The message behind the medium

The power behind your content

Ask the expert: what messages inform your content?00:03:29


Language and tone in online communication?

In this activity, you’ll explore how language can be used creatively to develop or deliver on a particular tone. You’ll also see how style matters, especially in longer form content.
What is tone?

Reflecting on examples of tone

Making content more readable and relatable

Rewriting content

Rewriting content: a few examples


Matching your content and message with the context?

These steps explore how businesses make sure they use the right content to suit their audience, to convey the right message and to achieve the right results.
Task: bringing it all together


Summary?

In these steps, we bring Week 1 to a close and review what we have learned so far. You will also look ahead to the final week of the course.
Preparing for Course

Student Feedback

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Amit K.

2 months ago

Its a short & crisp course on content marketing & is quite useful as a foundation course. The narration is quite clear & its interesting throughout.

Toni Beamon

2 months ago

I learned how to write online content skillfully, and yes, I enjoyed the course.

Thank you for providing us with creating successful online content for our business. Truly effective online content is very important for a company when we make the website.

Ankeet Bhatt

3 months ago

I liked this course. I thought the insights we’re really practical and very up-to-date and I found it very flexible to be able to dip in and out and pick up bite sized chunks as and when I could manage.

USD$130 USD$29

Material Includes

  • Official Certificate

Target Audience

  • This course is designed for people who have digital skills but would like to build confidence in using digital technology in the workplace.
  • This may include those studying for A-levels, those who have a degree, or those who want to improve their career prospects.
  • The course will also be useful for anyone in employment who wants to boost their digital skills or anyone returning to the workplace who’d like to gain confidence in how working practices have evolved.
  • You might also be interested in the other courses in the Digital Skills for the Workplace collection from the University of Leeds and the Institute of Coding.