RSS feed
Content Strategy Bitesize
TwitterPosts Tagged ‘Trends’
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tech Comms Trends for 2010
I’ve been thinking a lot about what this new year – and new decade – hold in store for technical communications, small businesses, recruitment, me… I’ve been reading some good posts in the niche area of Technical Communications. In fact, they are so thorough, that I don’t feel like messing with their content – I [...]
LeWeb is Coming to Paris 9-10 December
LeWeb is huge – one of the biggest events in the online world, bringing together some of the biggest names in high-tech, but also giving participants the opportunity to meet and interact with them. In fact, the whole event is set up with the aim to share ideas at every level: people meeting the presenters, [...]
What is Content Strategy, Anyway?…
What is Content Strategy, Anyway? At the intersection of user experience design, content management, business analysis and technical communication, content strategy is an emerging discipline that has grown rapidly in popularity over the last year. It is also becoming famous (infamous?) for being very hard to define. I’ve been looking for a coherent defintion to [...]
Content Strategy is Coming to Europe!
Ladies and Gentlemen, I am pleased to announce that Content Strategy Forum 2010 is now open and ready for registration. This promises to be a very exciting and informative event. Come join us in Paris the 15-16 April 2010! Content Strategy Forum 2010 will be the first ever conference in Europe dedicated entirely to Content [...]