Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Building Content

ISSCIO.com has been online for three weeks now.

We are however in the process of building content. We are yet to make a public launch to promote the site among potential users. We know the benefit of ISSCIO is the knowledge that is being shared. Therefore we have started contacting potential experts to introduce the system and encourage them to participate. When we introduce the system to experts we use anonymous sample names so you may see some false names at present.

If your are an expert, ISSCIO is a way to get exposure on the Internet. Nevertheless, contrary to other professional directories or Internet advertisement, ISSCIO does not charge you anything. We just ask you to contribute some knowledge. In this way you earn the right to be listed in the ISSCIO "Top Experts" lists. Even adding simple information that is already widely available on the Internet will help you to be listed.

But ISSCIO is not just another Internet list of professionals. It provides basic information sorted by topic. Users can have all basic questions answered in one place and they also have a list of experts in that topic for when the need to contact an expert arises. All in the same page. Thus, for users such as companies doing businesses in different locations, ISSCIO is a useful source of information and experts.

Moreover, ISSCIO goes beyond and allows experts and users to interact with each other. Experts can know which topics are high in demand, which are the most common questions and can therefore prepare accordingly. Users can evaluate experts after interacting with them and can choose the expert they will do business with.

We have started small and with almost no content. Wikipedia also had few pages and few contributors (and a lot of skeptics) in its early stages. Today it is the first source of encyclopedic information on the Internet with thousands of people contributing. We believe ISSCIO can be the first source of information in how to do businesses, such as registering a Trademark, and the first point of reference when needing professional help.

So, if you are an expert, you can start helping today by editing the topic of your expertise. It's easy, each topic already has some basic questions which act as a guideline. It may take you a few minutes to answer some of them and start earning points. And since ISSCIO is in pre-launch you will be already listed when users start arriving.

We are looking forward to see you at ISSCIO.com.


Lucas Vall
General Manager