Content Strategy in Higher Education
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Content Strategy in Higher Education
- 1. Content Strategy a field guide for higher education J. Todd Bennett & Adam Forrand
- 2. What we plan to cover today: What is content strategy? Why do you need it? How do you do it?
- 3. What is Content Strategy?
- 4. Content Strategy is… “…the process of planning for the creation, delivery, and governance of useful, usable content.”
- 5. Content Strategy is… “…figuring out the best way for content to help achieve your business goals” Melissa Rach
- 8. diagram RahelBailie, descriptions Jonathan Kahn
- 10. The many disciplines of content strategy Brand strategy Metadata strategy Messaging strategy Editorial strategy Information architecture Tone & style guides Taxonomy/categorization http://www.uxbooth.com/blog/getting-to-grips-with-content/ Felicity Evans
- 11. Haven’t we seen all this before? Louis Rosenfeld, “Information Architecture for the World Wide Web”, 2002
- 12. “If [Information Architecture] is the spatial side of information, I see content strategy as the temporal side of the same coin.” Louis Rosenfeld
- 13. Content strategy is ALL of these things. Content strategy is NOT new. You’re probably already doing it (to some degree).
- 14. Flickr: joey.gonoza Content strategy that isn’t tied to well-defined business objectives is not strategy.
- 16. Any questions?
- 17. Why do we need content strategy?
- 18. If you just spent $100k on a CMS and your website still stinks, you probably need content strategy
- 19. If your CMS solved a technical problem, but created a human one, you probably need content strategy
- 20. “You have dozens of users in CMS tool 101 training sessions with no idea why they are there, no familiarity with the publishing model and no incentive to learn how to keep their piece of content up to date which rarely needs to be updated anyway. This never ends well.” Jeff Cram
- 21. If you just spent $200k on a redesign and your website still stinks, you probably need content strategy.
- 22. If you just spent $300k on a rebranding and your website still stinks, you probably need a content strategy. Content College Start here. Go far.
- 23. If the inmates are running the asylum, you probably need a content strategy.
- 24. xkcd.com
- 25. If your website is like a flea market, you probably need a content strategy. Metaphor by Ian Alexander
- 27. Under-funded
- 30. Support actions you want to promote
- 31. Stop wasting resources on content nobody wants
- 32. Eliminate the guesswork about what to publish, how and where
- 33. Get more doneSource: Brain Traffic
- 34. Any questions?
- 36. Creating the Content PART 1: ANALYSIS
- 37. Sound familiar? This needs to go on the home page We should be on YouTube I need this brochure converted for the web We need our new mission statement up Let’s write a dozen articles next month We need to launch a blog Source: Halvorson
- 39. Context Analysis The elements that surround and affect your content
- 40. Define your business objectives Who does this? How do you ensure they’re linked with the strategic plan? Flickr: Marubozo
- 41. Identify & understand your users Who are they? What are their task and info needs? Focus groups Interviews Surveys Secondary research Flickr: manjulakoza
- 42. How are people using your website now? Analytics Website Search Usability testing
- 44. Politics
- 45. Competitors
- 47. Content Analysis A close review of your existing content
- 49. Where is it?
- 56. Any questions?
- 57. Creating the Content PART 2: Planning
- 58. Governance A problem everywhere, but complicated in higher education by decentralization and academic freedom.
- 59. “…senior administrators are disengaged from the web. …And the lack of any formal operational model results in an inefficient use of resources and no real sense of the value and ROI the web provides. ” Mark Greenfield
- 61. Tie it to recruitment/ fundraising
- 62. Show efficienciesHelp leadership understand what you’re doing and why so they’ll stop asking you to do stupid things. Getting buy-in
- 63. Hear more from Mark Greenfield on Highered Live: http://higheredlive.com/2011-the-year-of-web-governance/
- 64. “…why [is] the centralized-decentralized debate is so often presented as a dichotomy? Can’t our organizations respect both, in their appropriate roles? …the concept of hierarchy … is sometimes confused with power inequality…centralization means power over others.” - Jay Collier
- 68. Role of the CMS “If you don’t adapt technology to support your business process, your business process will adapt to your technology.” Colleen Jones in Clout: the Art and Science of Influential Web Content
- 70. Providers subject matter experts
- 71. Creators develop the content
- 72. Reviewers/ approvers consulted before publication online
- 73. Publishers get the content online
- 75. Creating the Content PART 3: Architecture
- 78. There’s more to IA than a sitemap Content Models Taxonomies Controlled Vocabularies
- 80. Stats News Projects Stories Events Website as a platform for interacting with content Videos Bios Images
- 82. 19 billion/year 2.16 million/hour 36,000/minute 400 billion Lego bricks produced since 1958 Gizmodo.com
- 83. Just 6 (2x4) bricks of the same color combine in 915,000,000 unique ways Lego.com
- 84. Content Reuse A single piece of content is created once and used in multiple formats and contexts
- 85. The 3 Rs of Content Reuse
- 86. Re-use 1 piece of content, multiple contexts
- 87. Re-purpose use parts of a piece of content for different purposes
- 88. Re-package multiple documents created in multiple media types
- 90. Consistency
- 92. Extended Reach
- 94. Lack of context requires branding of the content itself
- 97. A way of creating & storing information based on a predefined set of rules
- 99. Static, freeform
- 101. Redundancies, inconsistencies, erroneous info
- 102. Presentation often coupled with content
- 104. Use of Metadata Information used to describe & categorize content Album names Artists Song Titles Album Artwork Ratings Last Played Date Genre Playlists
- 107. Content Fields in the Structure
- 108. Unstructured/ free form metadata
- 109. Tags
- 110. Ratings
- 112. Any questions?
- 113. Creating the ContentPART 4: Content Design
- 117. And remember… forms, instructions, error messages, calls to action, page titles, link labels and photo captions are all content. Give them some love.
- 118. Any questions?
- 119. Creating the ContentPART 5: Editorial
- 121. Voice and tone
- 122. Grammar and punctuation guidelines
- 123. Copyright
- 124. Editorial calendarsCheck out the Yahoo! Style Guide
- 125. Building your brand with message architecture What do you want people to believe about you? What are your key messages?
- 127. Credit: Jessica Hagy
- 129. What’s the message? Without a message, you have nothing to say.
- 130. Messages are not content They are a framework for content Drawn from business & user needs
- 131. “When your content has built your reputation enough to attract the right people, convincing those people to act is a natural next step.” Colleen Jones, from Clout
- 132. Develop a strategy-> Build the case -> Present evidence … and let your audience decide
- 135. Curation is a mix of both TIMELY and TIMELESS content Erin Sceme, “Content Strategist as a Digital Curator” http://www.alistapart.com/articles/content-strategist-as-digital-curator/
- 136. Flickr: jinxiboo
- 138. Created for a specific someone (consider your audience)
- 139. Communicates a specific message (in service of business objectives)
- 140. Should elicit a particular response (meet user needs/assist in task completion)Flickr: jinxiboo http://www.content-ment.com/2010/05/content-strategy-or-lets-make-mixtape.html
- 144. Description
- 146. Format (web page, blog post, video, pdf)
- 147. Call to action (what do you want them to do?)
- 148. Distribution (website, Facebook, Twitter)
- 149. Related (emails, tweets, landing pages, other content, registration forms, etc.)
- 150. Owner
- 151. Status (draft, review, finished)
- 153. Any questions?
- 154. Evaluation, Measurement & Testing
- 155. Analysis = post hoc Evaluation = strategic
- 156. “Too many usability tests focus only on finding information—not on how the information itself works for people.” Ginny Redish
- 159. Interviews
- 160. Observations
- 161. Subjective analysis
- 167. Web analytics Useful for measurement, but also for research Do people do what they say they do? Look for ways the behavioral data supports/refutes what you learned in other research
- 169. How they share your content
- 170. How your content is being digested
- 171. What causes people to leave
- 172. What the most popular topics are
- 173. Movement between related materialshttp://www.alistapart.com/articles/content-strategist-as-digital-curator/
- 174. Any questions?
- 175. Taking the show on the road
- 176. byronfgarcia.com
- 177. The incidental publisher incidental (adj): 1 : being likely to ensue as a chance or minor consequence 2 : occurring merely by chance or without intention or calculation Merriam-Webster Dictionary
- 179. Perhaps it happened by chance (low woman/man on the totem pole, newest employee in the department, they have an iPad).
- 181. How do you get the information out of the brains of people who know stuff and into the brains of people who can write web copy? – Erin Kissane
- 183. A short description of each chunk of content, including formats it can be in (paragraph, bulleted list, etc.)
- 185. Help them develop their own strategies that align with the institutional strategies.
- 186. Jump start efforts one site at a time.
- 187. Teach the role of measurement and build-in simple, understandable ways to measure the effectiveness of their sites.
- 190. J. Todd Bennett todd@decimal152.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/jtoddbennett @jtoddb on Twitter Adam P. Forrand adam@decimal152.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamforrand @4and on Twitter
Notas del editor
- Who are you?Why are you here?
- Ask for their ideas about what it is
- Breakdown the definition, word by word. Content= text, data, graphics, video, audio. Strategy= holistic plan for obtaining a specific goalCreation= what and why? Structure. Where will it come from? Who is responsible?Delivery= how will it get online, who will edit? What tools used?Governance= Who cares for it? What’s the plan for adding, archiving? Policies? Standards?
- Involves content and people.
- Mstoner after Confab: “Relieved” they were already doing content strategy. “And we didn’t call it “content strategy.” As a small team, we had to be pragmatic generalists rather than focused practitioners of a single element of content strategy.”
- This is bigger than the web team. Involves senior leadership, IT, Comms, Academics, etcClearly linked with strategic plan
- If you want more, here’s a good resource that links to many of the resources you’ve seen today
- People with little or no experience creating official website content on your behalf.
- If your boss has seen this and showed it to you, you probably need content strategy
- Ian Alexander coined this term– find and forage
- Everyone! “You probably need a content strategy”
- WHY?? Why are you doing this? Why blog? Because everyone else is?Must connect user needs to business objectives. Can’t do that if you don’t know either of those.
- We’ll talk first about context
- Discuss this. Exercise to identify business objectives in higher ed. Who defines objectives? This is bigger than the web team. Involves senior leadership, IT, Comms, Academics, etcClearly linked with strategic plan
- Modified later in process to reflect migration
- Modified later in the process to include metadata for CMS migration
- We have to get senior admins to understand why and what value it providesGovernance ensures it gets funded properly
- We talked about the case for CS earlier
- From a comment on Mark Greenfield’s blog post
- Jeff Cram says “stop letting people use your CMS”CMSs are not one size fits allSometimes the best way to engage the community in content development is not to involve the webReference the possible ASC CMS model.
- Requesters (These are the bosses who tell you to “get this up on the web”.)Providers (These are people closest to your product, service or audience who will likely run for the hills when you ask them to contribute website content!)Creators (This is anybody and everybody and rarely includes someone with professional communications training.)Reviewers/ approvers (These are usually the bosses who probably requested it in the first place. More likely than not, there is no reviewer at all. The untrained creator has total authority to do whatever she wants. It would be nice, however, if this function was served by a real editor with the authority to edit.)Publishers (These are the people with access to the CMS who are probably the creators, too. This is the one function that the organization usually provides some training and support for.)Community Managers (You likely have far more of these than you know.)
- Piet Niederhausen- Content in Motion
- You can think of your content much like Legos
- Think about the granular parts of your content
- Can happen with or without a CMS
- It’s not just the pages
- “Reveal, don’t repeat. Don’t blast key messages over and over. Instead, let content reveal and support different facets of the messages.” from Clout
- We run the risk of creating too much content. It takes over if we never prune it. Creating more content isn’t the goal. Less can be more.
- How do we go from a pile of Legos to a Volvo?
- How do we do this? We can do it by carefully curating our content.
- If you want people to believe you are great at something, you have to build the case by presenting evidence. A better strategy with better evidence presents a better case. It doesn’t happen by itself and can’t happen if you don’t have good content to curate.
- We can do this through curation
- Timely= news/headlines. Timeless= evergreen content.
- A mixtape is thoughtful. Genius is an algorithm. Use caution in expecting your CMS to do this. Don’t overdo it with syndication or you could end up with a dynamic site of loosely related content that fails to tell your story.
- Use your CMS to remove barriers, not to think for you.
- Start with a master calendar: Holidays, Deadlines, EventsBuild the calendar to suit your needsConsider calendars by audience or content type
- Start w/existing content. Identify gaps. Think story-building: if you learned this, now it makes sense for you need to know that.Helping depts. create editorial calendars pays great dividends (aligning the organization with messaging, giving them reminders for when to refresh content, helping to see connections and integration with social, etc.)
- You have to plan for what you want to measure in your strategies and make sure you’re set-up to collect the right data.
- How do you know if your strategies are working?
- Triangulate your assesment. Usability testing alone is not enough.
- Quantitative tells you what is happening, qualitative tells you why it’s happening. There’s a good chapter on this in the book Clout.
- Usability vs. utilityUsability= the site is easy to useUtility= the site provides the information the user needs
- Usability scenarios aren’t always real-world. You wouldn’t just pick the first camera and check-out.
- What are people not finding?What are they searching for?
- So you can create content your users want
- Taking content strategy to the campus
- Begin by aligning and educating people at all levels of the organization. Make sure people know your organization’s business objectives and audiences and how their objectives and audiences fit.Cover the overall brand and messaging strategy, content strategy and editorial strategy
- Giving people a tool and no knowledge isn’t going to make your content better
- You have been this for hundreds of years. Sometimes the best way to approach it if offline.
- These can be more detailed for specific content types. Good idea to tie these to your wireframes so people can see them
- Vague instructions: People don’t know what that means and they’ll just waste time trying to do that.Workshop: reformatting your garbage so it’s easier to scan