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Rahel Anne Bailie is the principal of Intentional Design, and brings substantial business, communication, and instructional design experience to her projects, where she and a select group of professional partners help organizations create and better manage their communication products.
Her focus on performance improvement means beginning with an analysis of business goals and ensuring that any improvements support those goals.
Rahel has many years of experience in the areas of content development and user experience environments, including environments producing localized and/or internationalized content. She understands the complexities of content architecture and flows, and synthesizes her findings to match business requirements to user need.
A self-identified geek, Rahel is drawn to technology like a moth to flame, and embraces technologies that serve to improve the performance of communication products and the processes to create and maintain them. She was elected Fellow of the Society of Technical Communication in 2009, is involved in the , and holds memberships in related professional associations such as Content Management Professionals Association, Information Architecture Association, and Usability Professionals Association, as well as local groups HTCE and VanUE, in order to keep current in pertinent practice areas.
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Recent Posts
- Managing Your Brand Online: Two Workshops
- Underestimating the “yes but” factor
- Registration now open for content strategy conference
- Consequences of not having a good content strategy
- Content strategy explained: two perspectives
- Naming the “other” type of content strategy
- Managing Your Online Brand: A Vancouver Workshop
- How to alienate customers and drive away prospects
- Treasure and the hunt: a content strategy take on user experience
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- Using topic-based writing to meet aggressive deadlines
- Flash pages, skip intros, and other annoying content
- Content strategy includes convergence, integration, and syndication
- Content strategy and the new face of documentation
- CMS selection practices need maturation
- Redefining content strategy
- A practical definition of content
- The Content is Not in the Tool: Using Blogging, Microblogging, and Related Social Media Tools to Get Jobs and Influence People (or not)
- 5 Top Business Benefits of Content Re-Use
- Having community means growing community
Random Posts
- Putting on my shoes right now: RT @timoreilly: "People who live in walkable neighborhoods weigh 7% less on average." says @mikemathieu 39 mins ago
- .@bokardo:Instead of "Know your users" think "Know what users do". Gets you further, faster. Adds @peterme:Find what drives their behavior. 7 hrs ago
- Will this ever happen? Why Support, not Marketing or Sales, should lead a brand website: http://bit.ly/dbLCHO. (hat tip @NatasjaP) 1 day ago
- RT @Lynn_H: Fonts matter; or, in academic lingo: "Processing Fluency Affects Effort Prediction and Motivation".http://bit.ly/cLtgh1 1 day ago
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