Mobile creates a million challenges, but it's also been a boon for content specialists. It's shown how much content matters—and how hard it is to deal with changing devices and unpredictable screen sizes without considering key messages and communication priorities first. Suddenly, content strategists are in demand.
But we're not here to be the new hotness—the must-have tech hire of the moment. We're here to make an impact on our users' experiences and our organizations' success. We're here to solve problems.
Those problems won't be fixed with audit spreadsheets and editorial plans alone, though. They require a new set of skills: not just doing, but educating, collaborating, and facilitating change. By taking advantage of this moment—our moment—we can do more than fix today's mobile issues. We can give our digital initiatives focus, our projects purpose, and our organizations the ability to adapt.
22. We are in a war between giant,
unstructured blobs of content, and clean,
well-structured !ields of content... We are
in a war of Blobs versus Chunks.
—Karen McGrane