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Updated: 1001 content strategy links
Just to let you know that, as promised, we’ve revisited our bumper list of content strategy resources and tidied them up into (hopefully) a much more useful and easy-to-navigate list, including categories such as: Introductions to content strategy and why it is useful Five must-reads on the subject How-tos Case studies Community resources Writing and [...]
Content Strategy starter kit for beginners
You may have spotted that we’ve been writing rather a lot lately about content strategy. That’s because it’s a natural progression for web-savvy technical communicators, as well as a growth area for employment. So, although the information is accumulating quickly, we’ve compiled a Content Strategy Starter Kit to get you quickly up to speed. What [...]
1001 content strategy links
Want to learn a little more about content strategy? We’ve picked out the best articles, posts, slideshows, connections, videos and links by content strategists and thought leaders, covering everything you could ever want to know about content strategy. UPDATE: we’ve divided our list into easier-to-use sections, from intros and must-reads to case studies and how-tos. [...]
User Manuals: Demise or Morph?
A good friend and colleague of mine, Theresa Cameron, International Representitive for the UK ISTC, sent me this article, “iPad: Manual not Included”, from the Independent (UK) by Simon Usborne pondering the demise of the user manual. Usborne also interviews two other well known and repsected professionals in our field, whose opinons I repsect quite [...]
Content Strategy Market Survey Results
Check out this link from Eat Media: 2010 Content Strategy Survey Results. Ian Alexander of Eat Media did a survey of companies EatMedia considers to be plugged in and got some interesting results. I’d like to personally thank them for taking this on – it’s very helpful and enlightening for the whole community. I’d say [...]
New Firehead Blogger: Fiona Cullinan
As the Big Boss at Firehead, I’m pleased to make an important announcement: we’ve hired a new member of the team who is going to be our dedicated blogger! No, I’m not going away completely, but Fiona Cullinan is a big-shot professional blogger (what a dream job!) and she’s going to add a lot to [...]
CSForum 2010 Video Content Now Online
For those of you who couldn’t attend CSforum 2010 in April, or if you just want to review what you saw, here is a link to the main CSForum 2010 session room presentations. Livestream is a free live video streaming service that also provides a free 10Gb video on demand library. This is where the [...]
Content Strategy Forum 2010 Wrap Up and Links
To those of you who attended CSForum 2010, I wanted to provide a quick wrap-up of links to help keep the conversation going into the future. If you didn’t attend (hey, we sold out!), some of these links won’t work for you, but you can see where to go to join the conversation about shaping [...]
Writers: Do you have the writing skills required?
I’ve been noticing some trends since the recession put more technical communicators on the market. No, it’s not surprising that there are more CVs out there. There’s still plenty of work for a recruiter to do sorting the chaff from the grain when it comes to professionalism and just plain ability. But the surprising thing [...]
It’s the Content, Stupid!
Just got back from Paris and one incredible conference: Content Strategy Forum 2010. We did it! There’s no denying it was a smashing success. Firehead were proud sponsors of this ground-breaking event and I, personally, am very proud to have been a conference organiser and TAC President. So what was this all about? “It’s the [...]