A Framework to Share Useful Content

What do we do when we find useful content?

We often come across quality good reads and content that resonates with us. The content delivers a useful message that inspires and motivates us to transform ourselves. This piece could be a video, an article, an image or an info-graphic. We are inspired to share such insights, experiences, life lessons and observations which has helped us but at times not sure how to do that. Presented here is a framework to share useful content to make this process super easy for you.

What do we typically do when we come across such useful content? Most of the times, we absorb the message, feel good momentarily and then move on. In other cases, we may even click the Like or Share or Retweet buttons, but it disappears from our memory moments later.

How to share useful content?

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could use the moment to make a difference?

What if we could attach our unique perspective with the content?

Wouldn’t it be nice if we were able to tell others why we found it valuable!

How can this content help us and help others?

So the next time you come across useful content, do pause for a moment. Think about what you found useful and why. Think about how you plan to enrich your life using what you just learnt. Or how you had applied what has been articulated for personal growth or for overcoming obstacles.  

Examples of How to share content

This is a write up with a view, not to limit your creativity, but to guide you gently into sharing with Meraki. Each of us bring a different perception of the same thing to the table. Here are 10 different examples of content formats and how you could share it with your own perspective:

1. Movies with meaningful life lessons to learn.
2. A Book along with your key take-away points.
3. Articles along with what you find appealing.
4. Speeches such as the iconic one by Steve Jobs at Stanford.
5. Songs that inspire you and why.
6. Advertisements that stand out and why they break the clutter.
7. Quotes with your own story.
8. Affirmations such as the classic “All is Well” popularized by Aamir Khan in the Indian movie 3 Idiots and how these help you.
9. Videos and what you learnt from them.
10. Podcasts that you love and why they resonate with you.

5 W’s and 1 H Framework to Share Useful Content

Here are some prompts to help you think of pointers to share the motivational content. Let us get started using the 5W’s and 1H framework.

What

• is the content about?
• did you learn from this?
• were the problems you were facing that this content helped you deal with?

Why

• do you like it?
• is it useful?
• did this particular content resonate with you?

When

• can we do this?
• should we avoid doing this?
• can it be useful?

Where

• is it being implemented?
• can others use it?
• else can it be applied?

Who

• is already doing this?
• is it meant for?
• else can benefit from this?
• enlightened you about this

How

• to do this?
• can we apply this in our lives?
• did you come across it? (maybe that you found the right thing at the right time and you were smart enough to recognize it)
• can the broader community adopt this?
• did this turn around your life?

What Next

It is my firm belief that action is the prescription to overcome confusion, dilemma and indecision. Remember that uncertainty should ignite creativity and not complacency. When you find something useful, share it along with your comments, experiences and unique observations. So let us immediately get into an action mode and share our curation, layered with meraki and get featured on the FTEM platform.

...
In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle !
Be a hero in the strife ! 

...
Lives of great men all remind us 
We can make our lives sublime, 
And, departing, leave behind us 
Footprints on the sands of time ; 

Footprints, that perhaps another, 
Sailing o'er life's solemn main, 
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, 
Seeing, shall take heart again. 

....

-  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
A PSALM OF LIFE

About The Author

Crispy Maheshwari is the founder of FTEM (From The Experts’ Mouth).

She is very creative and multi-talented. She likes to write, paint and craft. Crispy loves to network, motivate people, teach and spread positivity.

Some of her work has been published in leading national newspaper, International Literary Journals and has also been translated to other languages. Read one of her poem published in HQ Poetry Magazine, The Haiku Quarterly (an International poetry magazine) in the year 2000 in her maiden name Crispy Birbal Jain.

Crispy is also the Editor at FTEM. She graduated from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi and has dual professional qualifications – Chartered Accountant and Lawyer (Faculty of Law, University of Delhi).