10. Silverbullets that failed
โข A redesign
โข A new CMS
โข A di๏ฌerent design agency
โข A facebook page. Or a microsite.
โข Lorem Ipsum
โข โWe want content up frontโ
36. โWeโll develop a state-of-the-art
content infrastructure that
makes it easy for us to adapt to
new device formats quickly.โ
37. Achieve โข Be โข Do
โข Achieve: What does your CS need
to accomplish
โข Be: What content product(s) will
we create?
โข Do: What will the company neet to
do to support the e๏ฌort?
39. Substance
What content do you have?
What content do you need and why?
40. How do you get content that is
Compelling, useful, actionable
credible, substantial,
in๏ฌuential, meaningful, lovable
41. De๏ฌning Substance
โข Topics: The subjects that matter
โข Purpose: Every piece of content
needs to have a function.
โข Voice and Tone:
Watch you language, fuckers!
โข Source: Where your content comes from.
45. Content Audits
โ Assess all available content and
de๏ฌne its state (Redundant,
Outdated, Irrelevant)
โ De๏ฌne what is to happen with the
content until when
โ Help establish ownership &
responsibility
47. Content Audit
โข Quantitative inventory:
a list of all the content and its state.
- ID, Title, URL, Format, Source,
Technical Home, Metadata, Tra๏ฌc/
Usage Stats, Last update, Language
- Roll your own: Choose other factors
depending on your audit goal.
48. Content Audit
โข Qualitative audit
Best Practices assessment:
Usability, ๏ฌndability, actionability,
accuracy, task completion
This expands the quantitative
audit.
49. Content Audit
โข Qualitative audit
Strategic assessment:
Business value, message, brand/
voice appropriateness
This expands the quantitative
audit.
50. Crucial
Automate
Long-Lasting Short-lived
Get Rid of
Trivial
56. Work๏ฌow: Ownership
โข Business units and individuals
โข Need: Budget, time, understanding and
approval to take care of content.
The power to say NO.
โข Roles: Web manager, content creator,
reviewer/approver, SEO specialist, subject
matter expert.
58. Tools for content creation
โข Editorial calendar
A spreadsheet that captures content ideas and
schedules current content for publishing.
โข Content requirement checklist
A checklist for preferred content attributes.
59. Tools for content creation
โข Curation/aggregation checklist
A checklist that helps to select, contract and
publish third party content.
โข Migration spreadsheet
A spreadsheet that maps content from one
channel, property or process to another.
61. Tools for maintainance
โข Content inventory
A spreadsheed to record and track all of your
content.
โข Content maintainance checklist
A list of criteria used to evaluate and prioritize
content for maintainance
โข Content maintainance log
A CMS report or spreadsheet to see dates for last
update and next scheduled review.
62. Work๏ฌow: Content
โข Evaluating content
- Ongoing audit and analysis
- Making sure content still meets user
needs
- making sure content helps ful๏ฌll
business goals
63. Tools for evaluation
โข Qualitative audit spreadsheet
Extention of the content inventory
โข Measurement scorecard
A spreadsheet that helps stakeholders understand
your measurement ๏ฌndings.
โข Measurement history
An ongoing record of your measurements.
64. Governance
โข Authority and ownership policies
Rules on who can decide what.
โข Process an procedures
How stu๏ฌ gets done
โข Content policies and guidelines
Non-optional rules and sets of good
practices
65. Tools for governance
โข Styleguides
Guidelines that make sure content is consistent
and follows certain standards.
โข Content planning & prioritization matrix
Which content is done when in what order by
whom.