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How Not to Let Content 
Set your Hair on Fire 
AHAVA LEIBTAG 
PRESIDENT 
AHA MEDIA GROUP
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• 122.4 miles 
• 13 rest stops 
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Content is like a rest area. 
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Karen McGrane 
“The 11th Hour Sh**tstorm” 
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SAVE YOURSELVES! 
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When thinking about content 
What do I need on the: 
•People 
• Process 
• Technology 
Side of things to be considered successful? 
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TODAY: Set up for success 
1. Pick the right type of content strategist or professional 
2. Define clear roles and responsibilities 
3. Identify a scheduler 
4. Weekly meetings about content ONLY 
5. SHOW editing & approval timelines 
6. Define collaboration; not technology 
7. Get in the same space 
8. Checklist when things go wrong 
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People 
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#1: Pick the right type of content 
strategist or professional 
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What business problem are you trying 
to solve? 
•Messages 
•Formats: Text, audio, video and visual 
•Delivery 
•Navigation 
•Usability 
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Content Strategists & Writers 
EDITORIAL & BRAND STRATEGY 
•Writing 
•Style guides 
•Voice and tone 
•Character limits 
•Brand strategy 
TECHNICAL 
•DITA 
•XML 
•Metadata 
•Structured content 
•Adaptive content 
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#2: Clarify roles and responsibilities 
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Who is in charge? 
•Project Manager: What is your job? Explain it to the content people. 
•Content Strategist: EXACTLY what are you in charge of doing? 
•Writers/Content Creators: 
• Who sources your material? 
• Who writes it? 
• Who edits it? 
• Who approves it? 
• Who gives legal approval? (In highly regulated industries?) 
• Who gives executive approval? 
•Who quality assures the content once it is up? 
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#3: Identify a scheduler 
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Process 
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#4: Separate meetings about content 
Content is a separate entity in a project. Treat it like that. 
Discuss: 
• Templates 
• Character counts 
• Calls to action 
• “The No Man’s Land of Content Development” 
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#5: SHOW editing & approval 
timelines 
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Make sure you start the clock properly 
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Establish 
Content 
Governance 
Content 
Analysis 
Content 
Creation 
Establishing 
workflows 
Content 
Planning 
• Persona Development 
•Messaging Architecture 
• Identity Pillar 
Identification 
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Build OR 
clarify the 
business 
case 
Content 
Auditing 
Discovery 
YOU ARE 
HERE
Technology 
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#6: Define collaboration; not 
technology 
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Don’t be fooled: 
Technology is not collaboration. 
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#7: Get in the same space 
When in doubt: 
•Pick up the phone 
•Don’t be a stranger 
•Don’t guess 
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When things start to 
go bad? 
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Checklist of how to avoid disaster 
1. Identify the bottleneck(s) 
2. Hold an emergency “yellow light” meeting 
3. Inform higher ups that timelines will slip if you keep repeating this disastrous content 
pattern 
4. Bring in reinforcements (Who can help clean up this mess?) 
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Ask artful 
questions 
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TELL ME WHY… 
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I’M WONDERING 
ABOUT… 
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HELP ME UNDERSTAND… 
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WTF???? 
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www.thedigitalcrown.com 
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Questions? 
Ahava Leibtag 
Aha Media Group, LLC 
ahava@ahamediagroup.com 
@ahavaL @ 
ahavaleibtag 
THANK YOU! 
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