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Category Archives: Content Strategy
Expand Your Workflow Beyond Author-Edit-Publish
Lately I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about workflow, drawing on my past work overseeing production of digital content in marketing and communications departments. My starting point is a recognition that when we talk about workflow, we are usually thinking narrowly about how content gets authored, edited, and published inside a content management system,…
Finding Fresh Content to Share Before Your Competition Does
One of the most interesting tidbits in recent write-ups of Yahoo’s supposed plan to “sunset” Delicious was a sidebar on Marshall Kirkpatrick’s piece in ReadWriteWeb, which detailed a great way to use Delicious to find new content to share or write about before your competition does: How ReadWriteWeb Used Delicious For the past several years,…
Content Strategy is a Tool for Bringing the Web to Life
When I was a kid I spent a lot of time in museums. I could never understand why so many exhibits would break–and never get fixed. Do you remember how you would push a button hoping some audio-animatronic figure would come to life, talk and move its eyes and hands, but then nothing would happen?…
Closing the Loop in the Content Lifecycle [audio]
Rahel Bailie‘s insightful post today at Johnny Holland Magazine’s Content Strategy Week discusses how the process of publishing content has dramatically changed in the shift from print to digital. She writes about the content lifecycle, and in particular, how to “close the loop” so it works in the continuous publishing process of the multichannel, interactive…
Reinventing Your Production Routine [audio]
As we make the print-to-digital transition we have to change the way we produce, distribute and promote content. What do we want to get out of that change? Inspired by hanging out the laundry. Listen: Listen! The goal is to create a new production routine that internalizes the procedures and rules that will work in…
Is Content Strategy Strategy?
Over the weekend a tiff arose between two people whose thoughts and ideas I respect regarding whether “content strategy” is a meaningless buzzword or a legitimate practice that is part of business strategy. In one corner, we have Olivier Blanchard, aka The Brand Builder, a marketing strategy expert who is a leader in helping companies…
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