Content is king online.  It is how we convey information to our target audience. Valuable content has the following benefits, just to name a few:

• It fosters meaningful conversations.
• It forms lasting relationships.
• It develops dedicated communities of repeat website visitors.

Several tools exist to help with creating valuable content. Ten such tools are listed below, along with descriptions, mainly from their respective websites. All but one of these tools is free.

1. cognition.com

Cognition’s Semantic Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies add word and phrase meaning and understanding to computer applications, providing a technology and/or end-user with actionable content based upon semantic knowledge. This understanding results in simultaneously much higher precision and recall of salient data within the universe of possible results.

Since Cognition’s Semantic NLP “understands” word and sentence meanings, Cognition can help make other technologies smarter. When other technologies that do specific tasks involving text, using Cognition’s Semantic NLP to understand that text becomes a significant enhancement. Their ability to act on their customers’ actions and intent becomes more accurate and potentially more profitable.

2. creativewritingprompts.com

Ignite your creativity. Use the creative writing prompts and creative writing ideas to create stories, poems and other creative pieces from your imagination. The writing prompts can even help you come up with creative content for blogs and blog stories.

3. scribble.wreally.com

If you have a habit of saving .txt files to your desktop as reminders, notes, thoughts and random ideas, Scribble is for you. You can now manage all those notes in one place – clutter free. Scribble allows you to be organized without enforcing itself on you.

With Scribble, you can…
● Take down notes quickly without scrambling to store them in text files
● Attach reminders to specific notes
● Write peacefully—letter by letter auto-save
● Drag, drop and arrange the notes however you want
● Store todo lists, grocery items, phone numbers, email templates
● Access your notes when you are offline—your notes are stored locally

4. www.zenpen.io

A minimalist writing zone, where you can block out all distractions and get to what’s important. The writing!

To get started, all you need to do is delete the text on the website page and fill the page with your own fantastic words.

You can use bold, italics, both and urls just by highlighting the text and selecting them from the tiny options box that appears above it.

5. http://www.mixedink.com/#/_unique_features

MixedInk’s collaborative writing platform allows groups of any size to weave their best ideas and language into a single text. Cutting-edge government agencies, news organizations, advocacy groups, and businesses use MixedInk to gather meaningful input and give their communities a voice.

How does MixedInk’s platform work?
● Invite your group to write together—Anyone can create an original version, but what makes MixedInk unique is the ability to weave the best parts of different versions together to create new ones
● Let your group decide what’s best—Group Group members rate different texts to help choose the group’s best and most representative work.
●Share it—Use your group’s collective ideas to help accomplish your goals.

6. word.sc

Word Source is an online dictionary and thesaurus directly in your browser’s address bar.

7. http://agiletortoise.com/phraseology (not free)

Phraseology is an app for writers. Part text editor, part word processor, Phraseology is a simple environment focused on making it enjoyable and productive to write on the iPad. Phraseology also supports your writing with tools that help to improve word selection and better understand and structure your text.

8. http://www.inklestudios.com/inklewriter

Inklewriter is a free tool designed to allow anyone to write and publish interactive stories. It’s perfect for writers who want to try out interactivity, but also for teachers and students looking to mix computer skills and creative writing.

The inklewriter

 lets you write as you play, branching the story with choices, and then linking those stories back together again. It keeps track of which paths you’ve finished, and which still need to be written. There’s no set-up, no programming, no drawing diagrams. Just start writing and see where it takes you. Oh, and it’s free to use. And once written, you can share your stories with whomever you like.

9. throwww.com

Throwww is the easiest way to write something and share it. Just start writing, post it, and share the url.

10. onword.co

Just write. No formatting. No toolbars. No folders, file formats, or compatibility problems. Write letters. Draft emails and blog posts. Share more than 140 characters. Keep lists. Write on your desktop, and carry on where you left off on your tablet. Just write.

Written by Anna Baker. She devotes her spare time on looking for great SEO content strategies. She is also fond of discovering new trends related to SEO and Digital Marketing.