Archives for the category "Content strategy"

All I learned about book publishing comes from The Book

Content Strategy: Connecting the dots between business, brand, and benefits, has hit the shelves, along with some good reviews.

2012 in Review – a Content Strategy Retrospective

2012 was a year of collaboration for Intentional Design, and the cumulative efforts resulted in some significant outcomes this year.

Two weeks, four events, eight observations: insights from the conference circuit

Insights from four conferences and events that took place in October 2012: Lavacon, CS Workshops, Loc World, and tekom/tcworld.

Content Inventories, Audits, and Analyses: All part of benchmarking

An interesting discussion recently arose in a content strategy forum about content benchmarking, and this seemed an opportune time to discuss the topic. (Thanks to Destry Wion for suggesting I turn this into a blog post.) According to Wikipedia, the definition of benchmarking is “the process of comparing one’s business processes and performance metrics to [...]

Working on the City of Vancouver website

Many of you may not have known that I’ve spent the last year-and-a-half with the City of Vancouver, working on redeveloping their website. When I agreed to work on this project for the city, I didn’t put my consulting practice on hold because I was going to be making tons more money. I took a [...]

Occupying a unique content strategy space

There’s a lot of discussion within the content strategy community about the particular content strategy space that we occupy. My space is unique.

Move over, Big Data. It’s time for Big Content.

This is about Big Content – consideration of content beyond the copy, and even beyond the content. It’s about hardware and software infrastructure, as well.

Setting a context for a content strategy vocabulary

The problem with building a glossary is that the definitions need to exist within a context. In my last post, I alluded to the ubiquitous term “template”, which has different meanings within different contexts, and Noz pointed out the word “format”, which has the same problem. The content strategy field is developing its own context, [...]

Toward a common content strategy vocabulary

Tackling a consistent vocabulary to describe the various activities, deliverables, and outputs of typical content strategy work.

The added value of content through curation

Content curation is more than just maintenance. Done well, curation creates context, tells a story, adds perspective, and builds brand.