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Content Strategy at Work
Real-world Stories to Strengthen Every Interactive Project
- 1st Edition - January 25, 2012
- Author: Margot Bloomstein
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 9 1 9 2 2 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 9 1 9 2 9 - 8
Content is king… and the new kingmaker… and your message needs to align with your model and metrics and other mumbo jumbo, right? Whether you’re slogging through theory or bu… Read more
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Request a sales quoteContent is king… and the new kingmaker… and your message needs to align with your model and metrics and other mumbo jumbo, right? Whether you’re slogging through theory or buzzwords, there’s no denying content strategy is coming of age. But what’s in it for you? And if you’re not a content strategist, why should you care?
Because even if content strategy isn’t your job, content’s probably your problem—and probably more than you think. You or your business has a message you want to deliver, right? You can deliver that message through various channels and content types, from Tweets to testimonials and photo galleries galore, and your audience has just as many ways of engaging with it. So many ways, so much content… so where’s the problem? That is the problem. And you can measure it in time, creativity, money, lost opportunity, and the sobs you hear equally from creative directors, project managers, and search engine marketing specialists.
The solution is content strategy, and this book offers real-world examples and approaches you can adopt, no matter your role on the team. Put content strategy to work for you by gathering this book into your little hands and gobbling up never-before seen case studies from teams at Johns Hopkins Medicine, MINI, Icebreaker, and more. Content Strategy at Work is a book for designers, information architects, copywriters, project managers, and anyone who works with visual or verbal content. It discusses how you can communicate and forge a plan that will enable you, your company, or your client get that message across and foster better user experiences.
- Presents a content strategy framework and ways to implement in both in-house marketing departments and consultancies
- Includes case studies, interviews, and lessons learned from retail, apparel, network television, business-to-business, automotive, non-profit, and higher ed brands
- Details practical sales techniques to sell content strategy and use content strategy processes to sell other services and larger projects
Content strategists, project managers; creative directors; web designers; info architects; marketing managers; technical writers
Praise Page
Foreword
Thank you
About the Author
Chapter 1. How content strategy can help
Opportunity versus priority
What is content strategy?
Who should use this book—and what you can expect
Fail to plan? Plan to fail among monsters
Chapter 2. Designing cohesive experiences: Introducing content strategy to design
Deriving design from content at MOO
Why bring content strategy into the team?
How does message architecture drive the content and design?
Okay, but who's going to pay for this?
Pulling it all together with consistency— and copy
Chapter 3. Embracing reality: Incorporating content strategy into project management and information architecture
Informing scope and governance at Johns Hopkins Medicine
Conduct an audit that meets your needs
Document and train for governance and post-launch success
Chapter 4. Executing on content strategy through copywriting, creation, and curation
Know your story to tell it well
Curate content to drive the user experience
Chapter 5. Coupling content strategy with search engine optimization
Tie one on for search engines—and customers
SEO and content strategy collaboration spells success
Chapter 6. Improving content management with content strategy
Reframe the conversation
Create a culture of sharing, education, and maintenance
Cultivate a culture of governance
Facilitate success
So whose problem is it—and where do we go from here?
Chapter 7. Grounding social media in content strategy
Maintain consistency, channel to channel
Build conversations with commitment that transcends the campaign
Chapter 8. Growing the business and getting to work
Get a seat at the table
Use content strategy to win
Use content strategy as a wedge
Stop reading and get to work
Index
- No. of pages: 184
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 25, 2012
- Imprint: Morgan Kaufmann
- Paperback ISBN: 9780123919229
- eBook ISBN: 9780123919298
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Margot Bloomstein
Margot Bloomstein is the principal of Appropriate, Inc., a brand and content strategy consultancy based in Boston. For more than a decade, she's partnered with retailers, universities, and other organizations to create brand-appropriate user experiences that engage their target audiences and project key messages with consistency and clarity through both traditional and social media.
A participant in the inaugural Content Strategy Consortium, Margot speaks regularly-and energetically-about the evolving challenges for content strategy. Recent engagements include Content Strategy Forum London, Confab, edUi, SXSW, Web 2.0 Expo, Web Content, and more intimate regional events across the country. She also helps organize Content Strategy New England.
Margot is the author of Content Strategy at Work (Morgan Kaufmann, March 2012), a collection of case studies, examples, and processes that help teams embrace content strategy on every interactive project. Content Strategy at Work is a book for designers, information architects, copywriters, project managers, SEO consultants, and anyone who wants to create better user experiences, whether in in-house marketing departments or agency consulting engagements.
Margot lives outside Boston with her husband Mike and Ringo, their adorable and talkative white German Shepherd.
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