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If all you want for Christmas is a good book, then how about one that helps you get on in your career? In this digital age, most people don’t think of books but, let’s face it, they’re much easier to unwrap at Christmas than a Kindle e-book. So, as today is Cyber Monday, when shoppers [...]
Business cards: Do we really need them in the virtual world we live in?
I want to touch on a really killer topic – one that is probably keeping you up at night but you’re too ashamed to mention in public: What’s going to happen to the good old business card in this new information age? Or, more importantly: what in the world should I consider taking with me [...]
Content strategy in 2011 – reasons to be cheerful
Is content strategy about to implode under the weight of self-proclaimed ‘content strategy experts’ or will web recruitment’s latest buzz area continue to grow strong next year? One of our favourite European content strategists, Ken Yau of Baddit Ltd in the UK, takes a look at the current content strategy scene and outlines why it [...]
Why skills-based CVs might not be your friend (no meat!)
As a recruiter, I see skill-based CVs every day. I’ve never really given them a second thought. I look at them and I scroll down through three paragraphs of skills to find the actual experience (if I’m lucky). You know the kind of CV I’m talking about. They’re often only one page long, beginning with [...]
Overheard: how rejection can lead to your ideal job
There is a great presentation on Stanford University’s site about the growing trend for data visualisation for anyone looking to get into this relatively new and niche area of content creation. It’s an hour long mix of interviews and resources, and well worth a view. Don’t be put off by the title, though: Journalism in [...]
Will content strategy offer job security?
Having had about eight job titles in two years, I know I’m not alone in changing or reviewing my title to reflect new skills and work tasks. Now it’s content strategy that is the big ask – and it’s making a certain job title very desirable in 2010. Technical communicator Jerry Bartlett reviews his own [...]
Tech Comms UK roundup and a look ahead to LavaCon 2.0
Last week we promised a collective memory of shared presentations, thoughts and tweets from technical writers, content strategists and tech comms people attending Technical Communication UK. From Twitter, we can see that some people are still processing their ideas, so we may not catch everyone’s posts this week but please feel free to add them [...]
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. [...]