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Decimal Point Analytics is a data analytics company based in India with a strong presence in the US. They provide cutting-edge data analytics and research services to global financial services companies, asset managers, and corporates. Their team of experts leverages advanced analytics tools and technologies to derive actionable insights and strategic intelligence for their clients. They specialize in predictive analytics, machine learning, natural language processing, and big data analytics. Decimal Point Analytics is committed to delivering high-quality, cost-effective solutions to their clients and helping them gain a competitive edge in their respective markets.
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Thank you for your responses!! 🖤🖤🖤 I guess the answer is to keep everything the way it is. And let people decide whether to take a chance or not. I appreciate your support and kind words as well. :)) 🖤🖤🖤
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By the way guys, I have a Twitter that I post random short form thoughts on sometimes. I feel like I find new artists and writers on there everyday and I love to read the unhinged tweets. I might start putting spicier stuff on there once I figure out how to do the whole circle thingy.
I know its a sinking ship at this point, but i fucking love dumpster fires and will stay there until its nothing but rust and ash.
https://twitter.com/DecimalPointed?t=9LNfS0SQCc3rLpx4uuCHKA&s=09
#lets sink together#i wanna read your unhinged tweets#as the ship slowly slides into the dark depths#because of a white guys greed#i think i just wrote a poem?
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@decimalpointed this just made me imagine steve basically having olivia rodrigo's album inspired by nancy be one of his first big hits that wasn't spurred by his parents money/influence, and now I'm thinking of steve performing brutal and drivers license and good 4 u and traitor and all the other songs on the album, and damn now I wanna see steve singing all that
Harringroveson music au ?? Steve is an industry baby, son of two of the biggest personalities in the industry (Steve's parents have the kind of love story everyone knows about, they're the perfect picture of a happy couple with a son they love so much....... As long as the cameras are rolling)
And then we have Eddie 'the freak' Munson, with his rag to riches story and his inmense rockstar aura, who has worked with Billy Hargrove as his producer since they were high school besties and started messing around in the local music scene (oh, he was the only one of my friends that didn't tell me to stfu, I couldn't help but fall in love with him hire him on the spot). They're not public with their relationship, Billy has a very carefully constructed straight façade, is known as a ladies' man.
Also they have a bit of a mutual crush on Steve. They don't plan to do anything about it, it's more of a mutual joke of: dude, look at him, who wouldn't like him? In the same style we could talk nowadays about idek, Harry Styles.
But then they meet him, because for some plot related reason Eddie and Steve end up doing a collab. Billy cannot stand him (Perhaps Steve says a couple of tone deaf things that push Billy's sensitive buttons, perhaps they butt heads about silly things, perhaps Steve tries to put Billy out of the project until Eddie is forced to intervene and go: it's either him or we're both out. Your money won't get you what you want this time. And Steve realizes how important is Billy for Eddie, a close relationship he has never had and seldom seen, and respects Billy from then on and is a bit ashamed about the whole thing, but Billy's understably very pissed).
Once they start working, though, once they get into the studio and all else is forgotten they slowly become quite enamoured with each other-- Billy's forced to watch this from the sound control room, through the glass.
I really can't decide if I want to set the plot on the 80s or nowadays. If it's set in the 80s Eddie and Billy are known as really good friends much like Gary Cooper and Randolph Scott were (fyi they lived together for 12 years, they didn't have any gfs during that time). It doesn't matter if it's set in the 80s or nowadays Billy doesn't want to go public at all because uhhhhh Neil made that an absolutely terrifying possibility (if it's set nowadays there's some heartbreaking scene about 'oh, you can go public with him and have the kind of love story you've always wanted' 'but I want you as well. He's not your substitute!!')
If its set in the 80s there's moments like Billy full on breaking into laughter because Eddie's doing an interview and he goes: oh, I got my first guitar by dealing at school-- I mean, for legal purposes this is of course a joke, don't do drugs, you, guys.
If it's set nowadays Billy becomes Big Time Sad when he's asked by a reporter about a shitty TMZ article that goes like 'beauty and the beast? Can Steve 'the hair' Harrington be Eddie Munson's mystery love? All about 'the freak's' newest single: 'with love from the deepest pits of hell'
Anyway they of course end up together, the three of them ❤️
#like imagine steve singing 1 step forward 3 steps back#or jealousy jealousy#or favorite crime OMFGS favorite crime#i'm not even a big olivia girlie i just love the thought of steve singing these songs about nancy#and then finding love w billy and eddie#and when they eventually do come out obvi people are kinda shock that these big three guys are all together#like so many dont understand#but theyre just this power trio taking the music industry by storm#steves bestie robin is also along for the ride and everyone thinks that steves cheating w robin#but they all laugh and robin is just kinda like nah but I'll bang ur mom#anyways#mungrove#harringroveson#steddilly#music!au#billy hargrove#steve harrington#eddie munson#stranger things#olivia rodrigo
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How to Make Your Content More Readable
Your team has created, socialized, and measured content in just about every possible way … except for one of the most important metrics: how your audience is engaging with the words.
You want visitors to find information, stay engaged, or complete a task. But once readers’ eyes hit the words on the page, if it takes too much effort, their interaction falls off and you have churn. You know this anecdotally. Yet most don’t measure it scientifically.
Which of the thousands if not millions of words on a website are helping or hurting? What content is too dense or confusing?
Content teams work hard to create compelling content, but they have a natural blind spot. They’re too close to their creations – the blogs, thought leadership, and marketing pieces – to see them through the audience’s eyes.
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Now, with advances in natural language processing and artificial intelligence, a new breed of technology can test content for readability and clarity, which go to the heart of user experience and engagement. It can move organizations from a subjective approach, often fraught with editorial friction, to an objective, metric-based approach.
In this article I look at how to test for readability across your organization. For CMOs and chief content officers who want more engaging content, you now have ways to measure and benchmark clarity across the organization. And these tools can also help individual writers and creators produce better quality content.
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Let’s define readability and clarity
Content clarity is the user experience of how difficult or easy it is to read text. Why is that important? We know from neuroscience that processing words places a far greater cognitive load on the brain than images. Plus, attention spans are shorter, meaning visitors have lower tolerance for confusion.
Processing words places a far greater cognitive load on the brain than images. @FergalMcGovern @VisibleThread. Click To Tweet
Fortunately, there are several widely used measures. The Flesch Reading Ease Index, created by Rudolf Flesch in the 1950s, calculates the average syllable per word and the density of long sentences and assigns a readability score – the higher the number, the easier content is to read.
The Flesch-Kincaid measure, derived from the index, scores readability at grade level, approximating the number of years of education required to easily understand content (though with this tool, a lower score means higher readability). The U.S. Navy developed the Flesch-Kincaid measure in the 1970s to ensure that soldiers under stress in the field could easily understand written instructions in their manuals. While today’s audiences most likely aren’t in combat, they do face the stresses of information overload and too little time.
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Your readers are checking out and churning
Research shows that the average U.S. citizen reads at a seventh- to eighth-grade level – and it’s not simply a problem of low academic achievement. Some studies show even highly educated people disengage rather than spend the mental energy to unpack dense, complicated prose. Josh Bernoff, author and a contributor to the Harvard Business Review, surveyed 550 businesspeople in 2016. As many as 81% said poorly written content wasted too much of their time.
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That’s one reason Reader’s Digest and Time magazine are successful. Reader’s Digest has a readability index of about 65 and Time scores about 52. Give people the choice between reading something at that level versus run-on sentences of 40 or 50 words with several competing ideas, it’s clear which they’ll prefer.
What is good readability?
There’s no one size fits all, but the gold standard of readability for business communication is grade eight or lower.
You should limit long sentences and passive voice to 5% or less of the total content. Active voice rather than passive makes it clearer who needs to do what. By shortening sentences and using active voice, you can make even technical subject matter more readable and engaging without any “dumbing down.” The best writing makes complex topics easy to understand.
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The clarity problem isn’t new; but organizations are now producing vast quantities of content for their audiences. And with that proliferation comes a quality control issue. In 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Plain Language Act to make U.S. government-created content less dense and confusing. Federal agencies must now use “plain language” to communicate more clearly with citizens.
There’s no equivalent plain-language law in the commercial sector, but, given how fiercely brands compete for audience attention, they should be addressing it voluntarily.
One financial organization my team worked with set an internal goal that all consumer-facing content must be of a grade eight to 10 readability level – an ambitious goal. Our organization also worked with government agencies that have similar objectives. For example, the Australian federal government aims for a grade five readability level as part of its digital service standard. All companies that create content for cus
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<img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-78064" src="http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/how-content-more-readable-390x215.png" alt="how-content-more-readable" width="390" height="215" /></p><br /> <p>Your team has created, socialized, and measured content in just about every possible way … except for one of the most important metrics: how your audience is engaging with the words.</p><br /> <p>You want visitors to find information, stay engaged, or complete a task. But once readers’ eyes hit the words on the page, if it takes too much effort, their interaction falls off and you have churn. You know this anecdotally. Yet most don’t measure it scientifically.</p><br /> <p>Which of the thousands if not millions of words on a website are helping or hurting? What content is too dense or confusing?<br /><br /> <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" data-wp-more="more" data-wp-more-text="" class="wp-more-tag mce-wp-more" alt="" title="Read more..." data-mce-resize="false" data-mce-placeholder="1" /></p><br /> <p>Content teams work hard to create compelling content, but they have a natural blind spot. They’re too close to their creations – the blogs, thought leadership, and marketing pieces – to see them through the <a href="http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/11/ways-focus-on-audience/">audience’s</a> eyes.</p><br /> <div class="content-box-gray"><strong>HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: <a href="http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2018/01/reasons-content-sucks/">27 Reasons Why Your Content Sucks</a></strong></div><br /> <h2>AI tools can benchmark content understanding</h2><br /> <p>Now, with advances in natural language processing and artificial intelligence, a new breed of technology can test content for readability and clarity, which go to the heart of user experience and engagement. It can move organizations from a subjective approach, often fraught with editorial friction, to an objective, metric-based approach.</p><br /> <p>In this article I look at how to test for readability across your organization. For CMOs and chief content officers who want more engaging content, you now have ways to measure and benchmark clarity across the organization. And these tools can also help individual writers and creators produce better quality content.</p><br /> <div class="content-box-gray"><strong>HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: <a href="http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/11/b2b-content-artificial-intelligence/">Scale Your B2B Content With Artificial Intelligence: Ideas and Tools Marketers Can Try</a></strong></div><br /> <h3>Let’s define readability and clarity</h3><br /> <p>Content clarity is the user experience of how difficult or easy it is to read text. Why is that important? We know from neuroscience that processing words places a far greater cognitive load on the brain than images. Plus, attention spans are shorter, meaning visitors have lower tolerance for confusion.</p><br /> <p>
Processing words places a far greater cognitive load on the brain than images. @FergalMcGovern @VisibleThread. Click To Tweet
</p><br /> <p>Fortunately, there are several widely used measures. The <a href="https://readable.io/text/" target="_blank">Flesch Reading Ease Index</a>, created by Rudolf Flesch in the 1950s, calculates the average syllable per word and the density of long sentences and assigns a readability score – the higher the number, the easier content is to read.</p><br /> <p>The Flesch-Kincaid measure, derived from the index, scores readability at grade level, approximating the number of years of education required to easily understand content (though with this tool, a lower score means higher readability). The U.S. Navy developed the Flesch-Kincaid measure in the 1970s to ensure that soldiers under stress in the field could easily understand written instructions in their manuals. While today’s audiences most likely aren’t in combat, they do face the stresses of information overload and too little time.</p><br /> <div class="content-box-gray"><strong>HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: <a href="http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2016/01/science-method-creating-content/">The Ultimate Science-Backed Method for Creating Content That Readers Love</a></strong></div><br /> <h3>Your readers are checking out and churning</h3><br /> <p>Research shows that the average U.S. citizen reads at a seventh- to eighth-grade level – and it’s not simply a problem of low academic achievement. Some studies show even highly educated people disengage rather than spend the mental energy to unpack dense, complicated prose. <a href="https://withoutbullshit.com/blog/new-research-on-business-writing-infographic-and-report" target="_blank">Josh Bernoff</a>, author and a contributor to the Harvard Business Review, surveyed 550 businesspeople in 2016. As many as 81% said poorly written content wasted too much of their time.</p><br /> <p>
81% of respondents surveyed said poorly written #content wasted too much of their time via @jbernoff. Click To Tweet
</p><br /> <p>That’s one reason Reader’s Digest and Time magazine are successful. Reader’s Digest has a readability index of about 65 and Time scores about 52. Give people the choice between reading something at that level versus run-on sentences of 40 or 50 words with several competing ideas, it’s clear which they’ll prefer.</p><br /> <h2>What is good readability?</h2><br /> <p>There’s no one size fits all, but the gold standard of readability for business communication is grade eight or lower.</p><br /> <p>You should limit long sentences and passive voice to 5% or less of the total content. Active voice rather than passive makes it clearer who needs to do what. By shortening sentences and using active voice, you can make even technical subject matter more readable and engaging without any “dumbing down.” The best writing makes complex topics easy to understand.</p><br /> <p>
Limit long sentences and passive voice to 5% or less of total #content, says @FergalMcGovern @VisibleThread. Click To Tweet
</p><br /> <p>The clarity problem isn’t new; but organizations are now producing vast quantities of content for their audiences. And with that proliferation comes a quality control issue. In 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Plain Language Act to make U.S. government-created content less dense and confusing. Federal agencies must now use “plain language” to communicate more clearly with citizens.</p><br /> <p>There’s no equivalent plain-language law in the commercial sector, but, given how fiercely brands compete for audience attention, they should be addressing it voluntarily.</p><br /> <p>One <a href="http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/08/financial-services-relationships-content/">financial organization</a> my team worked with set an internal goal that all consumer-facing content must be of a grade eight to 10 readability level – an ambitious goal. Our organization also worked with government agencies that have similar objectives. For example, the Australian federal government aims for a grade five readability level as part of its digital service standard. All companies that create content for customers and other stakeholders should set similar goals for published content.</p><br /> <div class="content-box-gray"><strong>HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: <a href="http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2016/09/checklist-valuable-content/">Must-Have Checklist to Creating Valuable Content</a></strong></div><br /> <h3>Behavior change is hard, but doable</h3><br /> <p>Getting people to change their writing habits is far from trivial. Large organizations that use numerous agencies, <a href="http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/08/managing-remote-content-team/">freelancers</a>, and internal contributors face tremendous challenges with consistency and brand coherence. Simply getting people to test their content can be a big challenge.</p><br /> <p>Leadership should adopt a “people, process, tools” approach. The people element must focus on two factors: awareness and education. Many commercial and government organizations send employees to writing-for-the-web-style training courses to raise awareness of readability. These courses not only cover webpages, but also inward-facing content including letters and product brochures.</p><br /> <p>The <a href="http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2018/02/brands-marketing-process/">process</a> element focuses on mapping the current publication process and identifying which steps can be automated. Unfortunately, many organizations rush to roll out tools without an adequate understanding of what the current or future state of their process will look like. This rarely succeeds.</p><br /> <div class="content-box-gray"><br /> <p><strong>HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT:</strong></p><br /> <ul><br /> <li><a href="http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2016/07/define-workflow-content-production/">How to Define a Workflow That Keeps Content Production On Track</a></li><br /> <li><a href="http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/11/building-content-marketing-team/">Building Your Content Marketing Team? 14 Skills for New, Growing, and Mature Programs</a></li><br /> </ul><br /> </div><br /> <h2>How to execute content evaluation</h2><br /> <p>With the people and process elements sorted, now you’re ready to consider <a href="http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/07/tools-smart-content-creators/">tools</a>.</p><br /> <h3>Choose your tools wisely</h3><br /> <p>One of the biggest benefits of tools is that you can measure readability with objective metrics. You move from subjective opinions to quantitative measurement. These measures ease the editorial friction between content creators and editors/publishers. Companies should consider a two-pronged solution:</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Lightweight clarity tools in the hands of writers can help them measure, edit, and revise work to an agreed upon readability metric before submitting.</li><br /> <li><a href="http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2018/02/content-audit-hours/">Audit tools</a> for the content team allow it to control, review, and <a href="http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/10/competitive-content-marketing-analysis/">score content</a> across the enterprise. These tools allow editors and content leads to benchmark quality over time, track the readability (and engagement) of writers and their published work, and even test and vet new writers for clarity.</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>While <a href="http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/02/performance-google-analytics/">web analytics</a> can show page views, dwell times, and usage paths, they won’t reveal issues with the content itself. Rather than obsessing over poor content performance on the back end, consider an investment in <a href="http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2016/07/technology-smarter-content/">technology</a> that can improve content on the front end, tailoring words to how your audience’s brains want to process them.</p><br /> <p>
Web analytics won't reveal issues with the #content, says @FergalMcGovern @VisibleThread. Click To Tweet
</p><br /> <div class="content-box-gray"><br /> <p><strong> HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT:</strong></p><br /> <ul><br /> <li><a href="http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2018/01/how-audit-content/">How to Audit Your Content: 5 Essential Steps</a></li><br /> <li><a href="http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/03/analytics-reports-content-marketer/">4 Google Analytics Reports Every Content Marketer Should Use</a></li><br /> </ul><br /> </div><br /> <h3>Selecting readability tools and technology</h3><br /> <p>As you consider which tools to adopt, ask these questions:</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Will it support regular business users as well as subject matter experts? Determine who inside your organization will use the technology and whether it supports their needs.</li><br /> <li>Will it force too much friction or behavior change? For example, some solutions expect a business user to switch from Microsoft Word to edit content directly in a <a href="http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/08/implement-content-marketing-platform/">content management system</a>; this approach rarely works.</li><br /> <li>Can it measure improvement of content across possibly hundreds of content creators? Many low-end tools are great for single users but have no dashboards for organization-wide metrics. These are critical to <a href="http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2016/11/content-marketing-roi-formula/">show ROI</a>.</li><br /> <li>Is it suitable for work practices in a larger commercial or government organization? Less expensive and free tools are great for copy-and-paste-style text analysis by individuals but don’t natively support MS Word, PDFs, or direct URL analysis. If you <a href="http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2018/02/content-strategy-essentials/">map your process</a>, you’ll quickly see which tools will work and which won’t.</li><br /> <li>How will you know if people are using the solution? The tool should give you usage dashboards across all content contributors.</li><br /> <li>Will it allow you to audit sections of websites for readability or hundreds of documents? A solution that forces the user to analyze individual URLs or individual documents one at a time will not cut it for whole or partial site and <a href="http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2015/08/analytics-content-audits/">content audits</a>.</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>Companies are spending huge amounts on content management systems and looking for ways to improve the user journey. But to what end if they continue to overlook half the content problem? <a href="http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/11/content-creation-robots-examples/">Automation</a> now lets us measure and find the problems in millions of words. Humans can then focus on editing and fixing those words to make them clearer and easier to read and engage with. Shouldn’t we?</p><br /> <div class="content-box-gray"><strong>HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: <a href="http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/01/investing-content-technology/">5 Things to Consider Before Investing in Content Technology</a></strong></div><br /> <p><em>A version of this article originally appeared in the February issue of </em><a href="http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/chief-content-officer/"> <em>Chief Content Officer</em></a><em>. </em><a href="http://cmi.media/ccosubscription"><em>Sign up</em></a><em> to receive your free subscription to our bimonthly, print magazine.</em></p><br /> <p><em>Get tips and insight on how to create a better content experience for your audience at the upcoming Intelligent Content Conference March 20-22 in Las Vegas. </em><a href="http://cmi.media/d4x1"><em>Register today</em></a><em> using code BLOG100 to save $100.</em><em> </em></p><br /> <p><em>Cover image by Joseph Kalinowski/Content Marketing Institute</em></p><br />
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How to Make Your Content More Readable
Your team has created, socialized, and measured content in just about every possible way … except for one of the most important metrics: how your audience is engaging with the words.
You want visitors to find information, stay engaged, or complete a task. But once readers’ eyes hit the words on the page, if it takes too much effort, their interaction falls off and you have churn. You know this anecdotally. Yet most don’t measure it scientifically.
Which of the thousands if not millions of words on a website are helping or hurting? What content is too dense or confusing?
Content teams work hard to create compelling content, but they have a natural blind spot. They’re too close to their creations – the blogs, thought leadership, and marketing pieces – to see them through the audience’s eyes.
HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 27 Reasons Why Your Content Sucks
AI tools can benchmark content understanding
Now, with advances in natural language processing and artificial intelligence, a new breed of technology can test content for readability and clarity, which go to the heart of user experience and engagement. It can move organizations from a subjective approach, often fraught with editorial friction, to an objective, metric-based approach.
In this article I look at how to test for readability across your organization. For CMOs and chief content officers who want more engaging content, you now have ways to measure and benchmark clarity across the organization. And these tools can also help individual writers and creators produce better quality content.
HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Scale Your B2B Content With Artificial Intelligence: Ideas and Tools Marketers Can Try
Let’s define readability and clarity
Content clarity is the user experience of how difficult or easy it is to read text. Why is that important? We know from neuroscience that processing words places a far greater cognitive load on the brain than images. Plus, attention spans are shorter, meaning visitors have lower tolerance for confusion.
Processing words places a far greater cognitive load on the brain than images. @FergalMcGovern @VisibleThread. Click To Tweet
Fortunately, there are several widely used measures. The Flesch Reading Ease Index, created by Rudolf Flesch in the 1950s, calculates the average syllable per word and the density of long sentences and assigns a readability score – the higher the number, the easier content is to read.
The Flesch-Kincaid measure, derived from the index, scores readability at grade level, approximating the number of years of education required to easily understand content (though with this tool, a lower score means higher readability). The U.S. Navy developed the Flesch-Kincaid measure in the 1970s to ensure that soldiers under stress in the field could easily understand written instructions in their manuals. While today’s audiences most likely aren’t in combat, they do face the stresses of information overload and too little time.
HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: The Ultimate Science-Backed Method for Creating Content That Readers Love
Your readers are checking out and churning
Research shows that the average U.S. citizen reads at a seventh- to eighth-grade level – and it’s not simply a problem of low academic achievement. Some studies show even highly educated people disengage rather than spend the mental energy to unpack dense, complicated prose. Josh Bernoff, author and a contributor to the Harvard Business Review, surveyed 550 businesspeople in 2016. As many as 81% said poorly written content wasted too much of their time.
81% of respondents surveyed said poorly written #content wasted too much of their time via @jbernoff. Click To Tweet
That’s one reason Reader’s Digest and Time magazine are successful. Reader’s Digest has a readability index of about 65 and Time scores about 52. Give people the choice between reading something at that level versus run-on sentences of 40 or 50 words with several competing ideas, it’s clear which they’ll prefer.
What is good readability?
There’s no one size fits all, but the gold standard of readability for business communication is grade eight or lower.
You should limit long sentences and passive voice to 5% or less of the total content. Active voice rather than passive makes it clearer who needs to do what. By shortening sentences and using active voice, you can make even technical subject matter more readable and engaging without any “dumbing down.” The best writing makes complex topics easy to understand.
Limit long sentences and passive voice to 5% or less of total #content, says @FergalMcGovern @VisibleThread. Click To Tweet
The clarity problem isn’t new; but organizations are now producing vast quantities of content for their audiences. And with that proliferation comes a quality control issue. In 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Plain Language Act to make U.S. government-created content less dense and confusing. Federal agencies must now use “plain language” to communicate more clearly with citizens.
There’s no equivalent plain-language law in the commercial sector, but, given how fiercely brands compete for audience attention, they should be addressing it voluntarily.
One financial organization my team worked with set an internal goal that all consumer-facing content must be of a grade eight to 10 readability level – an ambitious goal. Our organization also worked with government agencies that have similar objectives. For example, the Australian federal government aims for a grade five readability level as part of its digital service standard. All companies that create content for cus
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<img class=”alignright size-medium wp-image-78064″ src=”http://ift.tt/2FtGIfO” alt=”how-content-more-readable” width=”390″ height=”215″ /></p><br /> <p>Your team has created, socialized, and measured content in just about every possible way … except for one of the most important metrics: how your audience is engaging with the words.</p><br /> <p>You want visitors to find information, stay engaged, or complete a task. But once readers’ eyes hit the words on the page, if it takes too much effort, their interaction falls off and you have churn. You know this anecdotally. Yet most don’t measure it scientifically.</p><br /> <p>Which of the thousands if not millions of words on a website are helping or hurting? What content is too dense or confusing?<br /><br /> <img src=”data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7″ data-wp-more=”more” data-wp-more-text=”” class=”wp-more-tag mce-wp-more” alt=”” title=”Read more…” data-mce-resize=”false” data-mce-placeholder=”1″ /></p><br /> <p>Content teams work hard to create compelling content, but they have a natural blind spot. They’re too close to their creations – the blogs, thought leadership, and marketing pieces – to see them through the <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/11/ways-focus-on-audience/”>audience’s</a> eyes.</p><br /> <div class=”content-box-gray”><strong>HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2018/01/reasons-content-sucks/”>27 Reasons Why Your Content Sucks</a></strong></div><br /> <h2>AI tools can benchmark content understanding</h2><br /> <p>Now, with advances in natural language processing and artificial intelligence, a new breed of technology can test content for readability and clarity, which go to the heart of user experience and engagement. It can move organizations from a subjective approach, often fraught with editorial friction, to an objective, metric-based approach.</p><br /> <p>In this article I look at how to test for readability across your organization. For CMOs and chief content officers who want more engaging content, you now have ways to measure and benchmark clarity across the organization. And these tools can also help individual writers and creators produce better quality content.</p><br /> <div class=”content-box-gray”><strong>HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/11/b2b-content-artificial-intelligence/”>Scale Your B2B Content With Artificial Intelligence: Ideas and Tools Marketers Can Try</a></strong></div><br /> <h3>Let’s define readability and clarity</h3><br /> <p>Content clarity is the user experience of how difficult or easy it is to read text. Why is that important? We know from neuroscience that processing words places a far greater cognitive load on the brain than images. Plus, attention spans are shorter, meaning visitors have lower tolerance for confusion.</p><br /> <p>
Processing words places a far greater cognitive load on the brain than images. @FergalMcGovern @VisibleThread. Click To Tweet
</p><br /> <p>Fortunately, there are several widely used measures. The <a href=”http://ift.tt/2kLm7Ml” target=”_blank”>Flesch Reading Ease Index</a>, created by Rudolf Flesch in the 1950s, calculates the average syllable per word and the density of long sentences and assigns a readability score – the higher the number, the easier content is to read.</p><br /> <p>The Flesch-Kincaid measure, derived from the index, scores readability at grade level, approximating the number of years of education required to easily understand content (though with this tool, a lower score means higher readability). The U.S. Navy developed the Flesch-Kincaid measure in the 1970s to ensure that soldiers under stress in the field could easily understand written instructions in their manuals. While today’s audiences most likely aren’t in combat, they do face the stresses of information overload and too little time.</p><br /> <div class=”content-box-gray”><strong>HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2016/01/science-method-creating-content/”>The Ultimate Science-Backed Method for Creating Content That Readers Love</a></strong></div><br /> <h3>Your readers are checking out and churning</h3><br /> <p>Research shows that the average U.S. citizen reads at a seventh- to eighth-grade level – and it’s not simply a problem of low academic achievement. Some studies show even highly educated people disengage rather than spend the mental energy to unpack dense, complicated prose. <a href=”http://ift.tt/2v6R2Js” target=”_blank”>Josh Bernoff</a>, author and a contributor to the Harvard Business Review, surveyed 550 businesspeople in 2016. As many as 81% said poorly written content wasted too much of their time.</p><br /> <p>
81% of respondents surveyed said poorly written #content wasted too much of their time via @jbernoff. Click To Tweet
</p><br /> <p>That’s one reason Reader’s Digest and Time magazine are successful. Reader’s Digest has a readability index of about 65 and Time scores about 52. Give people the choice between reading something at that level versus run-on sentences of 40 or 50 words with several competing ideas, it’s clear which they’ll prefer.</p><br /> <h2>What is good readability?</h2><br /> <p>There’s no one size fits all, but the gold standard of readability for business communication is grade eight or lower.</p><br /> <p>You should limit long sentences and passive voice to 5% or less of the total content. Active voice rather than passive makes it clearer who needs to do what. By shortening sentences and using active voice, you can make even technical subject matter more readable and engaging without any “dumbing down.” The best writing makes complex topics easy to understand.</p><br /> <p>
Limit long sentences and passive voice to 5% or less of total #content, says @FergalMcGovern @VisibleThread. Click To Tweet
</p><br /> <p>The clarity problem isn’t new; but organizations are now producing vast quantities of content for their audiences. And with that proliferation comes a quality control issue. In 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Plain Language Act to make U.S. government-created content less dense and confusing. Federal agencies must now use “plain language” to communicate more clearly with citizens.</p><br /> <p>There’s no equivalent plain-language law in the commercial sector, but, given how fiercely brands compete for audience attention, they should be addressing it voluntarily.</p><br /> <p>One <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/08/financial-services-relationships-content/”>financial organization</a> my team worked with set an internal goal that all consumer-facing content must be of a grade eight to 10 readability level – an ambitious goal. Our organization also worked with government agencies that have similar objectives. For example, the Australian federal government aims for a grade five readability level as part of its digital service standard. All companies that create content for customers and other stakeholders should set similar goals for published content.</p><br /> <div class=”content-box-gray”><strong>HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2016/09/checklist-valuable-content/”>Must-Have Checklist to Creating Valuable Content</a></strong></div><br /> <h3>Behavior change is hard, but doable</h3><br /> <p>Getting people to change their writing habits is far from trivial. Large organizations that use numerous agencies, <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/08/managing-remote-content-team/”>freelancers</a>, and internal contributors face tremendous challenges with consistency and brand coherence. Simply getting people to test their content can be a big challenge.</p><br /> <p>Leadership should adopt a “people, process, tools” approach. The people element must focus on two factors: awareness and education. Many commercial and government organizations send employees to writing-for-the-web-style training courses to raise awareness of readability. These courses not only cover webpages, but also inward-facing content including letters and product brochures.</p><br /> <p>The <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2018/02/brands-marketing-process/”>process</a> element focuses on mapping the current publication process and identifying which steps can be automated. Unfortunately, many organizations rush to roll out tools without an adequate understanding of what the current or future state of their process will look like. This rarely succeeds.</p><br /> <div class=”content-box-gray”><br /> <p><strong>HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT:</strong></p><br /> <ul><br /> <li><a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2016/07/define-workflow-content-production/”>How to Define a Workflow That Keeps Content Production On Track</a></li><br /> <li><a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/11/building-content-marketing-team/”>Building Your Content Marketing Team? 14 Skills for New, Growing, and Mature Programs</a></li><br /> </ul><br /> </div><br /> <h2>How to execute content evaluation</h2><br /> <p>With the people and process elements sorted, now you’re ready to consider <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/07/tools-smart-content-creators/”>tools</a>.</p><br /> <h3>Choose your tools wisely</h3><br /> <p>One of the biggest benefits of tools is that you can measure readability with objective metrics. You move from subjective opinions to quantitative measurement. These measures ease the editorial friction between content creators and editors/publishers. Companies should consider a two-pronged solution:</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Lightweight clarity tools in the hands of writers can help them measure, edit, and revise work to an agreed upon readability metric before submitting.</li><br /> <li><a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2018/02/content-audit-hours/”>Audit tools</a> for the content team allow it to control, review, and <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/10/competitive-content-marketing-analysis/”>score content</a> across the enterprise. These tools allow editors and content leads to benchmark quality over time, track the readability (and engagement) of writers and their published work, and even test and vet new writers for clarity.</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>While <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/02/performance-google-analytics/”>web analytics</a> can show page views, dwell times, and usage paths, they won’t reveal issues with the content itself. Rather than obsessing over poor content performance on the back end, consider an investment in <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2016/07/technology-smarter-content/”>technology</a> that can improve content on the front end, tailoring words to how your audience’s brains want to process them.</p><br /> <p>
Web analytics won't reveal issues with the #content, says @FergalMcGovern @VisibleThread. Click To Tweet
</p><br /> <div class=”content-box-gray”><br /> <p><strong> HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT:</strong></p><br /> <ul><br /> <li><a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2018/01/how-audit-content/”>How to Audit Your Content: 5 Essential Steps</a></li><br /> <li><a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/03/analytics-reports-content-marketer/”>4 Google Analytics Reports Every Content Marketer Should Use</a></li><br /> </ul><br /> </div><br /> <h3>Selecting readability tools and technology</h3><br /> <p>As you consider which tools to adopt, ask these questions:</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Will it support regular business users as well as subject matter experts? Determine who inside your organization will use the technology and whether it supports their needs.</li><br /> <li>Will it force too much friction or behavior change? For example, some solutions expect a business user to switch from Microsoft Word to edit content directly in a <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/08/implement-content-marketing-platform/”>content management system</a>; this approach rarely works.</li><br /> <li>Can it measure improvement of content across possibly hundreds of content creators? Many low-end tools are great for single users but have no dashboards for organization-wide metrics. These are critical to <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2016/11/content-marketing-roi-formula/”>show ROI</a>.</li><br /> <li>Is it suitable for work practices in a larger commercial or government organization? Less expensive and free tools are great for copy-and-paste-style text analysis by individuals but don’t natively support MS Word, PDFs, or direct URL analysis. If you <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2018/02/content-strategy-essentials/”>map your process</a>, you’ll quickly see which tools will work and which won’t.</li><br /> <li>How will you know if people are using the solution? The tool should give you usage dashboards across all content contributors.</li><br /> <li>Will it allow you to audit sections of websites for readability or hundreds of documents? A solution that forces the user to analyze individual URLs or individual documents one at a time will not cut it for whole or partial site and <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2015/08/analytics-content-audits/”>content audits</a>.</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>Companies are spending huge amounts on content management systems and looking for ways to improve the user journey. But to what end if they continue to overlook half the content problem? <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/11/content-creation-robots-examples/”>Automation</a> now lets us measure and find the problems in millions of words. Humans can then focus on editing and fixing those words to make them clearer and easier to read and engage with. Shouldn’t we?</p><br /> <div class=”content-box-gray”><strong>HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/01/investing-content-technology/”>5 Things to Consider Before Investing in Content Technology</a></strong></div><br /> <p><em>A version of this article originally appeared in the February issue of </em><a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/chief-content-officer/”> <em>Chief Content Officer</em></a><em>. </em><a href=”http://cmi.media/ccosubscription”><em>Sign up</em></a><em> to receive your free subscription to our bimonthly, print magazine.</em></p><br /> <p><em>Get tips and insight on how to create a better content experience for your audience at the upcoming Intelligent Content Conference March 20-22 in Las Vegas. </em><a href=”http://cmi.media/d4x1″><em>Register today</em></a><em> using code BLOG100 to save $100.</em><em> </em></p><br /> <p><em>Cover image by Joseph Kalinowski/Content Marketing Institute</em></p><br />
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How to Make Your Content More Readable
How to Make Your Content More Readable
Your team has created, socialized, and measured content in just about every possible way … except for one of the most important metrics: how your audience is engaging with the words.
You want visitors to find information, stay engaged, or complete a task. But once readers’ eyes hit the words on the page, if it takes too much effort, their interaction falls off and you have churn. You know this anecdotally. Yet most don’t measure it scientifically.
Which of the thousands if not millions of words on a website are helping or hurting? What content is too dense or confusing?
Content teams work hard to create compelling content, but they have a natural blind spot. They’re too close to their creations – the blogs, thought leadership, and marketing pieces – to see them through the audience’s eyes.
HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 27 Reasons Why Your Content Sucks
AI tools can benchmark content understanding
Now, with advances in natural language processing and artificial intelligence, a new breed of technology can test content for readability and clarity, which go to the heart of user experience and engagement. It can move organizations from a subjective approach, often fraught with editorial friction, to an objective, metric-based approach.
In this article I look at how to test for readability across your organization. For CMOs and chief content officers who want more engaging content, you now have ways to measure and benchmark clarity across the organization. And these tools can also help individual writers and creators produce better quality content.
HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Scale Your B2B Content With Artificial Intelligence: Ideas and Tools Marketers Can Try
Let’s define readability and clarity
Content clarity is the user experience of how difficult or easy it is to read text. Why is that important? We know from neuroscience that processing words places a far greater cognitive load on the brain than images. Plus, attention spans are shorter, meaning visitors have lower tolerance for confusion.
Processing words places a far greater cognitive load on the brain than images. @FergalMcGovern @VisibleThread. Click To Tweet
Fortunately, there are several widely used measures. The Flesch Reading Ease Index, created by Rudolf Flesch in the 1950s, calculates the average syllable per word and the density of long sentences and assigns a readability score – the higher the number, the easier content is to read.
The Flesch-Kincaid measure, derived from the index, scores readability at grade level, approximating the number of years of education required to easily understand content (though with this tool, a lower score means higher readability). The U.S. Navy developed the Flesch-Kincaid measure in the 1970s to ensure that soldiers under stress in the field could easily understand written instructions in their manuals. While today’s audiences most likely aren’t in combat, they do face the stresses of information overload and too little time.
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Your readers are checking out and churning
Research shows that the average U.S. citizen reads at a seventh- to eighth-grade level – and it’s not simply a problem of low academic achievement. Some studies show even highly educated people disengage rather than spend the mental energy to unpack dense, complicated prose. Josh Bernoff, author and a contributor to the Harvard Business Review, surveyed 550 businesspeople in 2016. As many as 81% said poorly written content wasted too much of their time.
81% of respondents surveyed said poorly written #content wasted too much of their time via @jbernoff. Click To Tweet
That’s one reason Reader’s Digest and Time magazine are successful. Reader’s Digest has a readability index of about 65 and Time scores about 52. Give people the choice between reading something at that level versus run-on sentences of 40 or 50 words with several competing ideas, it’s clear which they’ll prefer.
What is good readability?
There’s no one size fits all, but the gold standard of readability for business communication is grade eight or lower.
You should limit long sentences and passive voice to 5% or less of the total content. Active voice rather than passive makes it clearer who needs to do what. By shortening sentences and using active voice, you can make even technical subject matter more readable and engaging without any “dumbing down.” The best writing makes complex topics easy to understand.
Limit long sentences and passive voice to 5% or less of total #content, says @FergalMcGovern @VisibleThread. Click To Tweet
The clarity problem isn’t new; but organizations are now producing vast quantities of content for their audiences. And with that proliferation comes a quality control issue. In 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Plain Language Act to make U.S. government-created content less dense and confusing. Federal agencies must now use “plain language” to communicate more clearly with citizens.
There’s no equivalent plain-language law in the commercial sector, but, given how fiercely brands compete for audience attention, they should be addressing it voluntarily.
One financial organization my team worked with set an internal goal that all consumer-facing content must be of a grade eight to 10 readability level – an ambitious goal. Our organization also worked with government agencies that have similar objectives. For example, the Australian federal government aims for a grade five readability level as part of its digital service standard. All companies that create content for cus
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<img class=”alignright size-medium wp-image-78064″ src=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/how-content-more-readable-390×215.png” alt=”how-content-more-readable” width=”390″ height=”215″ /></p><br /> <p>Your team has created, socialized, and measured content in just about every possible way … except for one of the most important metrics: how your audience is engaging with the words.</p><br /> <p>You want visitors to find information, stay engaged, or complete a task. But once readers’ eyes hit the words on the page, if it takes too much effort, their interaction falls off and you have churn. You know this anecdotally. Yet most don’t measure it scientifically.</p><br /> <p>Which of the thousands if not millions of words on a website are helping or hurting? What content is too dense or confusing?<br /><br /> <img src=”data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7″ data-wp-more=”more” data-wp-more-text=”” class=”wp-more-tag mce-wp-more” alt=”” title=”Read more…” data-mce-resize=”false” data-mce-placeholder=”1″ /></p><br /> <p>Content teams work hard to create compelling content, but they have a natural blind spot. They’re too close to their creations – the blogs, thought leadership, and marketing pieces – to see them through the <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/11/ways-focus-on-audience/”>audience’s</a> eyes.</p><br /> <div class=”content-box-gray”><strong>HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2018/01/reasons-content-sucks/”>27 Reasons Why Your Content Sucks</a></strong></div><br /> <h2>AI tools can benchmark content understanding</h2><br /> <p>Now, with advances in natural language processing and artificial intelligence, a new breed of technology can test content for readability and clarity, which go to the heart of user experience and engagement. It can move organizations from a subjective approach, often fraught with editorial friction, to an objective, metric-based approach.</p><br /> <p>In this article I look at how to test for readability across your organization. For CMOs and chief content officers who want more engaging content, you now have ways to measure and benchmark clarity across the organization. And these tools can also help individual writers and creators produce better quality content.</p><br /> <div class=”content-box-gray”><strong>HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/11/b2b-content-artificial-intelligence/”>Scale Your B2B Content With Artificial Intelligence: Ideas and Tools Marketers Can Try</a></strong></div><br /> <h3>Let’s define readability and clarity</h3><br /> <p>Content clarity is the user experience of how difficult or easy it is to read text. Why is that important? We know from neuroscience that processing words places a far greater cognitive load on the brain than images. Plus, attention spans are shorter, meaning visitors have lower tolerance for confusion.</p><br /> <p>
Processing words places a far greater cognitive load on the brain than images. @FergalMcGovern @VisibleThread. Click To Tweet
</p><br /> <p>Fortunately, there are several widely used measures. The <a href=”https://readable.io/text/” target=”_blank”>Flesch Reading Ease Index</a>, created by Rudolf Flesch in the 1950s, calculates the average syllable per word and the density of long sentences and assigns a readability score – the higher the number, the easier content is to read.</p><br /> <p>The Flesch-Kincaid measure, derived from the index, scores readability at grade level, approximating the number of years of education required to easily understand content (though with this tool, a lower score means higher readability). The U.S. Navy developed the Flesch-Kincaid measure in the 1970s to ensure that soldiers under stress in the field could easily understand written instructions in their manuals. While today’s audiences most likely aren’t in combat, they do face the stresses of information overload and too little time.</p><br /> <div class=”content-box-gray”><strong>HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2016/01/science-method-creating-content/”>The Ultimate Science-Backed Method for Creating Content That Readers Love</a></strong></div><br /> <h3>Your readers are checking out and churning</h3><br /> <p>Research shows that the average U.S. citizen reads at a seventh- to eighth-grade level – and it’s not simply a problem of low academic achievement. Some studies show even highly educated people disengage rather than spend the mental energy to unpack dense, complicated prose. <a href=”https://withoutbullshit.com/blog/new-research-on-business-writing-infographic-and-report” target=”_blank”>Josh Bernoff</a>, author and a contributor to the Harvard Business Review, surveyed 550 businesspeople in 2016. As many as 81% said poorly written content wasted too much of their time.</p><br /> <p>
81% of respondents surveyed said poorly written #content wasted too much of their time via @jbernoff. Click To Tweet
</p><br /> <p>That’s one reason Reader’s Digest and Time magazine are successful. Reader’s Digest has a readability index of about 65 and Time scores about 52. Give people the choice between reading something at that level versus run-on sentences of 40 or 50 words with several competing ideas, it’s clear which they’ll prefer.</p><br /> <h2>What is good readability?</h2><br /> <p>There’s no one size fits all, but the gold standard of readability for business communication is grade eight or lower.</p><br /> <p>You should limit long sentences and passive voice to 5% or less of the total content. Active voice rather than passive makes it clearer who needs to do what. By shortening sentences and using active voice, you can make even technical subject matter more readable and engaging without any “dumbing down.” The best writing makes complex topics easy to understand.</p><br /> <p>
Limit long sentences and passive voice to 5% or less of total #content, says @FergalMcGovern @VisibleThread. Click To Tweet
</p><br /> <p>The clarity problem isn’t new; but organizations are now producing vast quantities of content for their audiences. And with that proliferation comes a quality control issue. In 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Plain Language Act to make U.S. government-created content less dense and confusing. Federal agencies must now use “plain language” to communicate more clearly with citizens.</p><br /> <p>There’s no equivalent plain-language law in the commercial sector, but, given how fiercely brands compete for audience attention, they should be addressing it voluntarily.</p><br /> <p>One <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/08/financial-services-relationships-content/”>financial organization</a> my team worked with set an internal goal that all consumer-facing content must be of a grade eight to 10 readability level – an ambitious goal. Our organization also worked with government agencies that have similar objectives. For example, the Australian federal government aims for a grade five readability level as part of its digital service standard. All companies that create content for customers and other stakeholders should set similar goals for published content.</p><br /> <div class=”content-box-gray”><strong>HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2016/09/checklist-valuable-content/”>Must-Have Checklist to Creating Valuable Content</a></strong></div><br /> <h3>Behavior change is hard, but doable</h3><br /> <p>Getting people to change their writing habits is far from trivial. Large organizations that use numerous agencies, <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/08/managing-remote-content-team/”>freelancers</a>, and internal contributors face tremendous challenges with consistency and brand coherence. Simply getting people to test their content can be a big challenge.</p><br /> <p>Leadership should adopt a “people, process, tools” approach. The people element must focus on two factors: awareness and education. Many commercial and government organizations send employees to writing-for-the-web-style training courses to raise awareness of readability. These courses not only cover webpages, but also inward-facing content including letters and product brochures.</p><br /> <p>The <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2018/02/brands-marketing-process/”>process</a> element focuses on mapping the current publication process and identifying which steps can be automated. Unfortunately, many organizations rush to roll out tools without an adequate understanding of what the current or future state of their process will look like. This rarely succeeds.</p><br /> <div class=”content-box-gray”><br /> <p><strong>HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT:</strong></p><br /> <ul><br /> <li><a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2016/07/define-workflow-content-production/”>How to Define a Workflow That Keeps Content Production On Track</a></li><br /> <li><a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/11/building-content-marketing-team/”>Building Your Content Marketing Team? 14 Skills for New, Growing, and Mature Programs</a></li><br /> </ul><br /> </div><br /> <h2>How to execute content evaluation</h2><br /> <p>With the people and process elements sorted, now you’re ready to consider <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/07/tools-smart-content-creators/”>tools</a>.</p><br /> <h3>Choose your tools wisely</h3><br /> <p>One of the biggest benefits of tools is that you can measure readability with objective metrics. You move from subjective opinions to quantitative measurement. These measures ease the editorial friction between content creators and editors/publishers. Companies should consider a two-pronged solution:</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Lightweight clarity tools in the hands of writers can help them measure, edit, and revise work to an agreed upon readability metric before submitting.</li><br /> <li><a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2018/02/content-audit-hours/”>Audit tools</a> for the content team allow it to control, review, and <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/10/competitive-content-marketing-analysis/”>score content</a> across the enterprise. These tools allow editors and content leads to benchmark quality over time, track the readability (and engagement) of writers and their published work, and even test and vet new writers for clarity.</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>While <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/02/performance-google-analytics/”>web analytics</a> can show page views, dwell times, and usage paths, they won’t reveal issues with the content itself. Rather than obsessing over poor content performance on the back end, consider an investment in <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2016/07/technology-smarter-content/”>technology</a> that can improve content on the front end, tailoring words to how your audience’s brains want to process them.</p><br /> <p>
Web analytics won't reveal issues with the #content, says @FergalMcGovern @VisibleThread. Click To Tweet
</p><br /> <div class=”content-box-gray”><br /> <p><strong> HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT:</strong></p><br /> <ul><br /> <li><a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2018/01/how-audit-content/”>How to Audit Your Content: 5 Essential Steps</a></li><br /> <li><a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/03/analytics-reports-content-marketer/”>4 Google Analytics Reports Every Content Marketer Should Use</a></li><br /> </ul><br /> </div><br /> <h3>Selecting readability tools and technology</h3><br /> <p>As you consider which tools to adopt, ask these questions:</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Will it support regular business users as well as subject matter experts? Determine who inside your organization will use the technology and whether it supports their needs.</li><br /> <li>Will it force too much friction or behavior change? For example, some solutions expect a business user to switch from Microsoft Word to edit content directly in a <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/08/implement-content-marketing-platform/”>content management system</a>; this approach rarely works.</li><br /> <li>Can it measure improvement of content across possibly hundreds of content creators? Many low-end tools are great for single users but have no dashboards for organization-wide metrics. These are critical to <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2016/11/content-marketing-roi-formula/”>show ROI</a>.</li><br /> <li>Is it suitable for work practices in a larger commercial or government organization? Less expensive and free tools are great for copy-and-paste-style text analysis by individuals but don’t natively support MS Word, PDFs, or direct URL analysis. If you <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2018/02/content-strategy-essentials/”>map your process</a>, you’ll quickly see which tools will work and which won’t.</li><br /> <li>How will you know if people are using the solution? The tool should give you usage dashboards across all content contributors.</li><br /> <li>Will it allow you to audit sections of websites for readability or hundreds of documents? A solution that forces the user to analyze individual URLs or individual documents one at a time will not cut it for whole or partial site and <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2015/08/analytics-content-audits/”>content audits</a>.</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>Companies are spending huge amounts on content management systems and looking for ways to improve the user journey. But to what end if they continue to overlook half the content problem? <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/11/content-creation-robots-examples/”>Automation</a> now lets us measure and find the problems in millions of words. Humans can then focus on editing and fixing those words to make them clearer and easier to read and engage with. Shouldn’t we?</p><br /> <div class=”content-box-gray”><strong>HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/01/investing-content-technology/”>5 Things to Consider Before Investing in Content Technology</a></strong></div><br /> <p><em>A version of this article originally appeared in the February issue of </em><a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/chief-content-officer/”> <em>Chief Content Officer</em></a><em>. </em><a href=”http://cmi.media/ccosubscription”><em>Sign up</em></a><em> to receive your free subscription to our bimonthly, print magazine.</em></p><br /> <p><em>Get tips and insight on how to create a better content experience for your audience at the upcoming Intelligent Content Conference March 20-22 in Las Vegas. </em><a href=”http://cmi.media/d4x1″><em>Register today</em></a><em> using code BLOG100 to save $100.</em><em> </em></p><br /> <p><em>Cover image by Joseph Kalinowski/Content Marketing Institute</em></p><br />
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How to Make Your Content More Readable
How to Make Your Content More Readable
Your team has created, socialized, and measured content in just about every possible way … except for one of the most important metrics: how your audience is engaging with the words.
You want visitors to find information, stay engaged, or complete a task. But once readers’ eyes hit the words on the page, if it takes too much effort, their interaction falls off and you have churn. You know this anecdotally. Yet most don’t measure it scientifically.
Which of the thousands if not millions of words on a website are helping or hurting? What content is too dense or confusing?
Content teams work hard to create compelling content, but they have a natural blind spot. They’re too close to their creations – the blogs, thought leadership, and marketing pieces – to see them through the audience’s eyes.
HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 27 Reasons Why Your Content Sucks
AI tools can benchmark content understanding
Now, with advances in natural language processing and artificial intelligence, a new breed of technology can test content for readability and clarity, which go to the heart of user experience and engagement. It can move organizations from a subjective approach, often fraught with editorial friction, to an objective, metric-based approach.
In this article I look at how to test for readability across your organization. For CMOs and chief content officers who want more engaging content, you now have ways to measure and benchmark clarity across the organization. And these tools can also help individual writers and creators produce better quality content.
HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Scale Your B2B Content With Artificial Intelligence: Ideas and Tools Marketers Can Try
Let’s define readability and clarity
Content clarity is the user experience of how difficult or easy it is to read text. Why is that important? We know from neuroscience that processing words places a far greater cognitive load on the brain than images. Plus, attention spans are shorter, meaning visitors have lower tolerance for confusion.
Processing words places a far greater cognitive load on the brain than images. @FergalMcGovern @VisibleThread. Click To Tweet
Fortunately, there are several widely used measures. The Flesch Reading Ease Index, created by Rudolf Flesch in the 1950s, calculates the average syllable per word and the density of long sentences and assigns a readability score – the higher the number, the easier content is to read.
The Flesch-Kincaid measure, derived from the index, scores readability at grade level, approximating the number of years of education required to easily understand content (though with this tool, a lower score means higher readability). The U.S. Navy developed the Flesch-Kincaid measure in the 1970s to ensure that soldiers under stress in the field could easily understand written instructions in their manuals. While today’s audiences most likely aren’t in combat, they do face the stresses of information overload and too little time.
HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: The Ultimate Science-Backed Method for Creating Content That Readers Love
Your readers are checking out and churning
Research shows that the average U.S. citizen reads at a seventh- to eighth-grade level – and it’s not simply a problem of low academic achievement. Some studies show even highly educated people disengage rather than spend the mental energy to unpack dense, complicated prose. Josh Bernoff, author and a contributor to the Harvard Business Review, surveyed 550 businesspeople in 2016. As many as 81% said poorly written content wasted too much of their time.
81% of respondents surveyed said poorly written #content wasted too much of their time via @jbernoff. Click To Tweet
That’s one reason Reader’s Digest and Time magazine are successful. Reader’s Digest has a readability index of about 65 and Time scores about 52. Give people the choice between reading something at that level versus run-on sentences of 40 or 50 words with several competing ideas, it’s clear which they’ll prefer.
What is good readability?
There’s no one size fits all, but the gold standard of readability for business communication is grade eight or lower.
You should limit long sentences and passive voice to 5% or less of the total content. Active voice rather than passive makes it clearer who needs to do what. By shortening sentences and using active voice, you can make even technical subject matter more readable and engaging without any “dumbing down.” The best writing makes complex topics easy to understand.
Limit long sentences and passive voice to 5% or less of total #content, says @FergalMcGovern @VisibleThread. Click To Tweet
The clarity problem isn’t new; but organizations are now producing vast quantities of content for their audiences. And with that proliferation comes a quality control issue. In 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Plain Language Act to make U.S. government-created content less dense and confusing. Federal agencies must now use “plain language” to communicate more clearly with citizens.
There’s no equivalent plain-language law in the commercial sector, but, given how fiercely brands compete for audience attention, they should be addressing it voluntarily.
One financial organization my team worked with set an internal goal that all consumer-facing content must be of a grade eight to 10 readability level – an ambitious goal. Our organization also worked with government agencies that have similar objectives. For example, the Australian federal government aims for a grade five readability level as part of its digital service standard. All companies that create content for cus
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<img class=”alignright size-medium wp-image-78064″ src=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/how-content-more-readable-390×215.png” alt=”how-content-more-readable” width=”390″ height=”215″ /></p><br /> <p>Your team has created, socialized, and measured content in just about every possible way … except for one of the most important metrics: how your audience is engaging with the words.</p><br /> <p>You want visitors to find information, stay engaged, or complete a task. But once readers’ eyes hit the words on the page, if it takes too much effort, their interaction falls off and you have churn. You know this anecdotally. Yet most don’t measure it scientifically.</p><br /> <p>Which of the thousands if not millions of words on a website are helping or hurting? What content is too dense or confusing?<br /><br /> <img src=”data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7″ data-wp-more=”more” data-wp-more-text=”” class=”wp-more-tag mce-wp-more” alt=”” title=”Read more…” data-mce-resize=”false” data-mce-placeholder=”1″ /></p><br /> <p>Content teams work hard to create compelling content, but they have a natural blind spot. They’re too close to their creations – the blogs, thought leadership, and marketing pieces – to see them through the <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/11/ways-focus-on-audience/”>audience’s</a> eyes.</p><br /> <div class=”content-box-gray”><strong>HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2018/01/reasons-content-sucks/”>27 Reasons Why Your Content Sucks</a></strong></div><br /> <h2>AI tools can benchmark content understanding</h2><br /> <p>Now, with advances in natural language processing and artificial intelligence, a new breed of technology can test content for readability and clarity, which go to the heart of user experience and engagement. It can move organizations from a subjective approach, often fraught with editorial friction, to an objective, metric-based approach.</p><br /> <p>In this article I look at how to test for readability across your organization. For CMOs and chief content officers who want more engaging content, you now have ways to measure and benchmark clarity across the organization. And these tools can also help individual writers and creators produce better quality content.</p><br /> <div class=”content-box-gray”><strong>HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/11/b2b-content-artificial-intelligence/”>Scale Your B2B Content With Artificial Intelligence: Ideas and Tools Marketers Can Try</a></strong></div><br /> <h3>Let’s define readability and clarity</h3><br /> <p>Content clarity is the user experience of how difficult or easy it is to read text. Why is that important? We know from neuroscience that processing words places a far greater cognitive load on the brain than images. Plus, attention spans are shorter, meaning visitors have lower tolerance for confusion.</p><br /> <p>
Processing words places a far greater cognitive load on the brain than images. @FergalMcGovern @VisibleThread. Click To Tweet
</p><br /> <p>Fortunately, there are several widely used measures. The <a href=”https://readable.io/text/” target=”_blank”>Flesch Reading Ease Index</a>, created by Rudolf Flesch in the 1950s, calculates the average syllable per word and the density of long sentences and assigns a readability score – the higher the number, the easier content is to read.</p><br /> <p>The Flesch-Kincaid measure, derived from the index, scores readability at grade level, approximating the number of years of education required to easily understand content (though with this tool, a lower score means higher readability). The U.S. Navy developed the Flesch-Kincaid measure in the 1970s to ensure that soldiers under stress in the field could easily understand written instructions in their manuals. While today’s audiences most likely aren’t in combat, they do face the stresses of information overload and too little time.</p><br /> <div class=”content-box-gray”><strong>HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2016/01/science-method-creating-content/”>The Ultimate Science-Backed Method for Creating Content That Readers Love</a></strong></div><br /> <h3>Your readers are checking out and churning</h3><br /> <p>Research shows that the average U.S. citizen reads at a seventh- to eighth-grade level – and it’s not simply a problem of low academic achievement. Some studies show even highly educated people disengage rather than spend the mental energy to unpack dense, complicated prose. <a href=”https://withoutbullshit.com/blog/new-research-on-business-writing-infographic-and-report” target=”_blank”>Josh Bernoff</a>, author and a contributor to the Harvard Business Review, surveyed 550 businesspeople in 2016. As many as 81% said poorly written content wasted too much of their time.</p><br /> <p>
81% of respondents surveyed said poorly written #content wasted too much of their time via @jbernoff. Click To Tweet
</p><br /> <p>That’s one reason Reader’s Digest and Time magazine are successful. Reader’s Digest has a readability index of about 65 and Time scores about 52. Give people the choice between reading something at that level versus run-on sentences of 40 or 50 words with several competing ideas, it’s clear which they’ll prefer.</p><br /> <h2>What is good readability?</h2><br /> <p>There’s no one size fits all, but the gold standard of readability for business communication is grade eight or lower.</p><br /> <p>You should limit long sentences and passive voice to 5% or less of the total content. Active voice rather than passive makes it clearer who needs to do what. By shortening sentences and using active voice, you can make even technical subject matter more readable and engaging without any “dumbing down.” The best writing makes complex topics easy to understand.</p><br /> <p>
Limit long sentences and passive voice to 5% or less of total #content, says @FergalMcGovern @VisibleThread. Click To Tweet
</p><br /> <p>The clarity problem isn’t new; but organizations are now producing vast quantities of content for their audiences. And with that proliferation comes a quality control issue. In 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Plain Language Act to make U.S. government-created content less dense and confusing. Federal agencies must now use “plain language” to communicate more clearly with citizens.</p><br /> <p>There’s no equivalent plain-language law in the commercial sector, but, given how fiercely brands compete for audience attention, they should be addressing it voluntarily.</p><br /> <p>One <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/08/financial-services-relationships-content/”>financial organization</a> my team worked with set an internal goal that all consumer-facing content must be of a grade eight to 10 readability level – an ambitious goal. Our organization also worked with government agencies that have similar objectives. For example, the Australian federal government aims for a grade five readability level as part of its digital service standard. All companies that create content for customers and other stakeholders should set similar goals for published content.</p><br /> <div class=”content-box-gray”><strong>HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2016/09/checklist-valuable-content/”>Must-Have Checklist to Creating Valuable Content</a></strong></div><br /> <h3>Behavior change is hard, but doable</h3><br /> <p>Getting people to change their writing habits is far from trivial. Large organizations that use numerous agencies, <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/08/managing-remote-content-team/”>freelancers</a>, and internal contributors face tremendous challenges with consistency and brand coherence. Simply getting people to test their content can be a big challenge.</p><br /> <p>Leadership should adopt a “people, process, tools” approach. The people element must focus on two factors: awareness and education. Many commercial and government organizations send employees to writing-for-the-web-style training courses to raise awareness of readability. These courses not only cover webpages, but also inward-facing content including letters and product brochures.</p><br /> <p>The <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2018/02/brands-marketing-process/”>process</a> element focuses on mapping the current publication process and identifying which steps can be automated. Unfortunately, many organizations rush to roll out tools without an adequate understanding of what the current or future state of their process will look like. This rarely succeeds.</p><br /> <div class=”content-box-gray”><br /> <p><strong>HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT:</strong></p><br /> <ul><br /> <li><a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2016/07/define-workflow-content-production/”>How to Define a Workflow That Keeps Content Production On Track</a></li><br /> <li><a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/11/building-content-marketing-team/”>Building Your Content Marketing Team? 14 Skills for New, Growing, and Mature Programs</a></li><br /> </ul><br /> </div><br /> <h2>How to execute content evaluation</h2><br /> <p>With the people and process elements sorted, now you’re ready to consider <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/07/tools-smart-content-creators/”>tools</a>.</p><br /> <h3>Choose your tools wisely</h3><br /> <p>One of the biggest benefits of tools is that you can measure readability with objective metrics. You move from subjective opinions to quantitative measurement. These measures ease the editorial friction between content creators and editors/publishers. Companies should consider a two-pronged solution:</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Lightweight clarity tools in the hands of writers can help them measure, edit, and revise work to an agreed upon readability metric before submitting.</li><br /> <li><a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2018/02/content-audit-hours/”>Audit tools</a> for the content team allow it to control, review, and <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/10/competitive-content-marketing-analysis/”>score content</a> across the enterprise. These tools allow editors and content leads to benchmark quality over time, track the readability (and engagement) of writers and their published work, and even test and vet new writers for clarity.</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>While <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/02/performance-google-analytics/”>web analytics</a> can show page views, dwell times, and usage paths, they won’t reveal issues with the content itself. Rather than obsessing over poor content performance on the back end, consider an investment in <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2016/07/technology-smarter-content/”>technology</a> that can improve content on the front end, tailoring words to how your audience’s brains want to process them.</p><br /> <p>
Web analytics won't reveal issues with the #content, says @FergalMcGovern @VisibleThread. Click To Tweet
</p><br /> <div class=”content-box-gray”><br /> <p><strong> HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT:</strong></p><br /> <ul><br /> <li><a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2018/01/how-audit-content/”>How to Audit Your Content: 5 Essential Steps</a></li><br /> <li><a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/03/analytics-reports-content-marketer/”>4 Google Analytics Reports Every Content Marketer Should Use</a></li><br /> </ul><br /> </div><br /> <h3>Selecting readability tools and technology</h3><br /> <p>As you consider which tools to adopt, ask these questions:</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Will it support regular business users as well as subject matter experts? Determine who inside your organization will use the technology and whether it supports their needs.</li><br /> <li>Will it force too much friction or behavior change? For example, some solutions expect a business user to switch from Microsoft Word to edit content directly in a <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/08/implement-content-marketing-platform/”>content management system</a>; this approach rarely works.</li><br /> <li>Can it measure improvement of content across possibly hundreds of content creators? Many low-end tools are great for single users but have no dashboards for organization-wide metrics. These are critical to <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2016/11/content-marketing-roi-formula/”>show ROI</a>.</li><br /> <li>Is it suitable for work practices in a larger commercial or government organization? Less expensive and free tools are great for copy-and-paste-style text analysis by individuals but don’t natively support MS Word, PDFs, or direct URL analysis. If you <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2018/02/content-strategy-essentials/”>map your process</a>, you’ll quickly see which tools will work and which won’t.</li><br /> <li>How will you know if people are using the solution? The tool should give you usage dashboards across all content contributors.</li><br /> <li>Will it allow you to audit sections of websites for readability or hundreds of documents? A solution that forces the user to analyze individual URLs or individual documents one at a time will not cut it for whole or partial site and <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2015/08/analytics-content-audits/”>content audits</a>.</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>Companies are spending huge amounts on content management systems and looking for ways to improve the user journey. But to what end if they continue to overlook half the content problem? <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/11/content-creation-robots-examples/”>Automation</a> now lets us measure and find the problems in millions of words. Humans can then focus on editing and fixing those words to make them clearer and easier to read and engage with. Shouldn’t we?</p><br /> <div class=”content-box-gray”><strong>HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: <a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/01/investing-content-technology/”>5 Things to Consider Before Investing in Content Technology</a></strong></div><br /> <p><em>A version of this article originally appeared in the February issue of </em><a href=”http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/chief-content-officer/”> <em>Chief Content Officer</em></a><em>. </em><a href=”http://cmi.media/ccosubscription”><em>Sign up</em></a><em> to receive your free subscription to our bimonthly, print magazine.</em></p><br /> <p><em>Get tips and insight on how to create a better content experience for your audience at the upcoming Intelligent Content Conference March 20-22 in Las Vegas. </em><a href=”http://cmi.media/d4x1″><em>Register today</em></a><em> using code BLOG100 to save $100.</em><em> </em></p><br /> <p><em>Cover image by Joseph Kalinowski/Content Marketing Institute</em></p><br />
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@decimalpointed excuse me your tags make me INSANE. Steve thinking at first the other two like him not because of him but because of his parents, his money, his contacts, etc. Until Eddie confesses: oh no, you see, you did this song dedicated to this children you babysit and we were obsessed, which was hilarious, because it's not our style at all.
(which is this case Dustin & co. Would be the sons of tech people, perhaps?? They know that Steve is a superstar but they're not at all star struck by him)
Harringroveson music au ?? Steve is an industry baby, son of two of the biggest personalities in the industry (Steve's parents have the kind of love story everyone knows about, they're the perfect picture of a happy couple with a son they love so much....... As long as the cameras are rolling)
And then we have Eddie 'the freak' Munson, with his rag to riches story and his inmense rockstar aura, who has worked with Billy Hargrove as his producer since they were high school besties and started messing around in the local music scene (oh, he was the only one of my friends that didn't tell me to stfu, I couldn't help but fall in love with him hire him on the spot). They're not public with their relationship, Billy has a very carefully constructed straight façade, is known as a ladies' man.
Also they have a bit of a mutual crush on Steve. They don't plan to do anything about it, it's more of a mutual joke of: dude, look at him, who wouldn't like him? In the same style we could talk nowadays about idek, Harry Styles.
But then they meet him, because for some plot related reason Eddie and Steve end up doing a collab. Billy cannot stand him (Perhaps Steve says a couple of tone deaf things that push Billy's sensitive buttons, perhaps they butt heads about silly things, perhaps Steve tries to put Billy out of the project until Eddie is forced to intervene and go: it's either him or we're both out. Your money won't get you what you want this time. And Steve realizes how important is Billy for Eddie, a close relationship he has never had and seldom seen, and respects Billy from then on and is a bit ashamed about the whole thing, but Billy's understably very pissed).
Once they start working, though, once they get into the studio and all else is forgotten they slowly become quite enamoured with each other-- Billy's forced to watch this from the sound control room, through the glass.
I really can't decide if I want to set the plot on the 80s or nowadays. If it's set in the 80s Eddie and Billy are known as really good friends much like Gary Cooper and Randolph Scott were (fyi they lived together for 12 years, they didn't have any gfs during that time). It doesn't matter if it's set in the 80s or nowadays Billy doesn't want to go public at all because uhhhhh Neil made that an absolutely terrifying possibility (if it's set nowadays there's some heartbreaking scene about 'oh, you can go public with him and have the kind of love story you've always wanted' 'but I want you as well. He's not your substitute!!')
If its set in the 80s there's moments like Billy full on breaking into laughter because Eddie's doing an interview and he goes: oh, I got my first guitar by dealing at school-- I mean, for legal purposes this is of course a joke, don't do drugs, you, guys.
If it's set nowadays Billy becomes Big Time Sad when he's asked by a reporter about a shitty TMZ article that goes like 'beauty and the beast? Can Steve 'the hair' Harrington be Eddie Munson's mystery love? All about 'the freak's' newest single: 'with love from the deepest pits of hell'
Anyway they of course end up together, the three of them ❤️
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Just for the sake of keeping everything in the same post @decimalpointed 😂

I can imagine both things happening soooo much. Steve phoning his agent, Robin, and talking for an hour about Eddie's mysterious blond haired muse (all of this from a very straight, I'm just admiring Eddie, kind of perspective, much to Robin complete exasperation).
And also absolutely!! Billy strikes me far more as a love through actions kind of guy. He's not affectionate on the regular, especially not in public. But he's ridiculously loyal. Like, I can picture him perfectly when him and Eddie were teens going: uh you play okay I guess and then behave around someone else like a very pretentious hipster defensive of their obscure band: how come you don't know him?? He's a genius!! And I can picture the same with Nancy, when Billy's already dating both Eddie and Steve: you're telling me that you had the opportunity to have this beautiful, perfect, heart of gold cutie pie of a boy and you... threw it away?? When he would not say anything like that to Steve's face ever (waves a hand towards how his abandonment issues would make being verbally affectionate really hard for Billy because whyyy would he tell someone that he loves them? It hasn't prevented people from fucking off in the past. It's giving them the method to destroy him)
But also I was thinking in how to do the shift between friendship and relationship between the three of them. Because we need to maintain their personalities as they are in the series before starting to develop the fic from that. Steve's whole thing about being the rich boy who's really lonely because his parents are absent and because he's taken for granted a lot translates really well to 'Steve is a superstar who gets critiques because oooh he's famous just because of his parents, not because he's got any talent'.
Eddie making a point in being himself even if that means standing out translates really well to 'talented rockstar who puts crazy performances that are vilified by some part of the press' (really thinking about holier than thou, fox news type of reporter Jason Carver).
But Billy..... Mmmmmm.... I think we need to keep Neil as a character. Perhaps their only opportunity to make it big was using Neil's contacts in the industry. Perhaps he's Eddie's agent?? Eddie and Billy have tried to get rid of him a thousand times over, but it never works because he keeps a very tight control on their things and he pulls the incredibly shitty stunt to Billy of: oh where would you be without me (Neil's a huge piece of shit of a hypocrite that stopped caring as much that his son is into boys the moment said boy started making big money, but he has scared Billy out of being open with his relationship with Eddie for years)
Just because besides the romantic side of the story, it would be amazing to put into some found family tropes. Billy who stops being into a flight or fight response and working through his issues because he finds people that have his back. Steve who's finally able to use his privilege to take care of people he cares about (and that care for him as a person). Eddie finding people who cherish him dearly because he's different, and not in spite of it.
And also because before becoming romantic I think we'd have to deal with Billy's trust issues. Like, the relationship wouldn't develop up until the point Billy pulls Steve into the very tight circle of people he trusts and tells him about the whole situation with Neil and Steve goes: that is very shitty, if you ever want a plan b, Robin could help Eddie find like 20 agents better than him. ('wtf you saying? Being under Neil's control is not... Obligatory??)
Harringroveson music au ?? Steve is an industry baby, son of two of the biggest personalities in the industry (Steve's parents have the kind of love story everyone knows about, they're the perfect picture of a happy couple with a son they love so much....... As long as the cameras are rolling)
And then we have Eddie 'the freak' Munson, with his rag to riches story and his inmense rockstar aura, who has worked with Billy Hargrove as his producer since they were high school besties and started messing around in the local music scene (oh, he was the only one of my friends that didn't tell me to stfu, I couldn't help but fall in love with him hire him on the spot). They're not public with their relationship, Billy has a very carefully constructed straight façade, is known as a ladies' man.
Also they have a bit of a mutual crush on Steve. They don't plan to do anything about it, it's more of a mutual joke of: dude, look at him, who wouldn't like him? In the same style we could talk nowadays about idek, Harry Styles.
But then they meet him, because for some plot related reason Eddie and Steve end up doing a collab. Billy cannot stand him (Perhaps Steve says a couple of tone deaf things that push Billy's sensitive buttons, perhaps they butt heads about silly things, perhaps Steve tries to put Billy out of the project until Eddie is forced to intervene and go: it's either him or we're both out. Your money won't get you what you want this time. And Steve realizes how important is Billy for Eddie, a close relationship he has never had and seldom seen, and respects Billy from then on and is a bit ashamed about the whole thing, but Billy's understably very pissed).
Once they start working, though, once they get into the studio and all else is forgotten they slowly become quite enamoured with each other-- Billy's forced to watch this from the sound control room, through the glass.
I really can't decide if I want to set the plot on the 80s or nowadays. If it's set in the 80s Eddie and Billy are known as really good friends much like Gary Cooper and Randolph Scott were (fyi they lived together for 12 years, they didn't have any gfs during that time). It doesn't matter if it's set in the 80s or nowadays Billy doesn't want to go public at all because uhhhhh Neil made that an absolutely terrifying possibility (if it's set nowadays there's some heartbreaking scene about 'oh, you can go public with him and have the kind of love story you've always wanted' 'but I want you as well. He's not your substitute!!')
If its set in the 80s there's moments like Billy full on breaking into laughter because Eddie's doing an interview and he goes: oh, I got my first guitar by dealing at school-- I mean, for legal purposes this is of course a joke, don't do drugs, you, guys.
If it's set nowadays Billy becomes Big Time Sad when he's asked by a reporter about a shitty TMZ article that goes like 'beauty and the beast? Can Steve 'the hair' Harrington be Eddie Munson's mystery love? All about 'the freak's' newest single: 'with love from the deepest pits of hell'
Anyway they of course end up together, the three of them ❤️
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