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“I find that you’re very central and visible …” — Responding to Reader Questions
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 Posted in Technical Writing | 14 Comments »
In a recent email to me, Jake from California (not his real name or location) writes, I've spent most of today exploring the world of technical writing, and I find that ... Read more..Podcast on Content Strategy: Interview with Rahel Bailie
Monday, July 27th, 2009 Posted in Podcasts | 2 Comments »
[audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?http://idratherbewriting.com/podcasts/contentstrategy.mp3] Download MP3 Length: 50 min. In this podcast, Rahel Bailie, a content strategist from Vancouver, B.C., talks about content strategy in the context of technical communication. I briefly alluded to my conversation ... Read more..Toward Content Quality :: UXmatters
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Toward Content Quality :: UXmatters. In this article, Colleen Jones explains about ten specific principles that content strategists look at. This article does a nice job of making content strategy ... Read more..Content Strategy: The Philosophy of Data – Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Rachel Lovinger gets specific about what content strategists do on a practical level and includes specific strategies to consider and questions to ask. Read more..Three Questions to Start Thinking Like a Content Strategist
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 Posted in Technical Writing | 5 Comments »
Last week I spoke with Rahel Bailie, a content management/strategist in Vancouver B.C., about content strategy. I'll post a podcast of the interview soon, but I thought I'd write a ... Read more..Content Strategy – a knol by Jeffrey MacIntyre
Thursday, July 16th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Content Strategy - a knol by Jeffrey MacIntyre. Looking to get up to speed on content strategy? This page contains a sizable collection of links, references, definitions, and other useful ... Read more..How to Avoid Extinction as a Technical Communicator
Monday, June 15th, 2009 Posted in Technical Writing | 31 Comments »
In a career development workshop at the TransAlpine Conference in Vienna, Ellis Pratt, one of the founders of Cherryleaf, argued that technical communicators may eventually become extinct if they keep ... Read more..Measuring content strategy: Not a piece of cake
Saturday, June 6th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
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