37. • Defines how you’re going to use content to
meet your business goals and satisfy your
users’ needs!
• Guides decisions about content from creation to
deletion!
• Sets benchmarks against which to measure the
success of your content!
• Aligns multiple teams of content creators!
• Extends beyond the website
38. • Target Audiences: Who do you want to engage in
conversation and why? !
• Messaging: What do you want those target users
to know, learn or get from your content? !
• Channels: What channels are used to deliver
content?
• Workflow/Governance: How is content created,
maintained and managed?
49. clout (noun)
1. influence or power, esp. in politics or
business
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2. a heavy blow with hand or a hard object
50. Phases of Clout
RAISE AWARENESS
You can’t influence people who don’t know about you.
Show who you are, what you stand for and what you can offer.
Focus on the “About Me” (Like I did at the beginning of this presentation)
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BECOME LIKED AND TRUSTED
Web content needs to demonstrate personality, values, expertise credibility
Start focusing on your customers and help them identify with you
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MOTIVATE, INSPIRE AND HELP ACTION
Content needs to clearly define the action and associated benefits.
Content should guide people through the action itself.
52. context (noun)!
The circumstances that form the
setting for an event, statement, or
idea, and in terms of which it can
be fully understood and assessed
53. Elements of Context
Results
What do you need to do?
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Users
Who are you trying to reach?
!
Brand
How people see you?
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Timing
What’s going on
!
Forum
Where is it happening?
62. Audience
• Be super specific
• Develop personas
• Identify multiple customer types
• Existing vs Potential
63. Characteristics Description
Demographics
Age, income, race, education, sex, occupation,
location
Behaviors
What are they already doing? Where are they
already going?
Expectations
User’s notions of how things should work? What
they think is good.
Role Functions within an organization
Values User’s individual, community and cultural beliefs
Disposition Perceptions of your brand, topic, idea and more
Personas
Predefined categories created just for your
organization
70. Brand
• Organization or Personal or both
• Consistency is vital
• Sometimes better to let your brand pick you
71. Timing
• What’s going on in the world, community, industry
• Gap between now and call to action (Priming)
• How long will it take to influence your users?
72. Forum
• So many to choose from!!
• What’s your flagship?
• Go to where your users are
73. Factors to consider when
identifying what content you need…
• Audience
• Messaging
• Topics
• Purpose
• Voice and Tone
• Sources
85. Credibility through content
• Quality over time
• Partners and Endorsements
• Expert Contributions
• Curated Content from Credible Sources
• Site your sources
• Brand History
• Security and Privacy Cues
86.
87. Credibility Guidelines
• Say who you are and where you are located
• Clearly distinguish sponsored content
• Inform people of any fees, return policies, and
other information important to making shopping
decisions
• Correct false, misleading or outdated content and
have a policy if someone makes a purchase using
incorrect content
88. Logic
• Don’t generalize and beware of edge cases
• Red Herrings
• Don’t confuse cause with correlation
• Be cautious with hyperbole
• Beware of bandwagons
89. Emotion
• Powerful, so handle with care
• Users decide when it works (and doesn’t)
• Best used through sensory detail
90. –Kenneth Burke, Rhetorician
On Identification
“Any of the wide variety of means by which
an author may establish a shared sense of
values, attitudes and interests with his
readers.”
95. How to identify with users
• Persona/Character/Spokesperson (Rackspace)
• User Generated Content (B&H Photo)
• Cause Content (Tom’s)
• Story
• Us - Why we’re here, about our startup
• Customers - How our customers use us
111. • Know what you’ve published and when
• Track SEO keywords
• Everything should adhere to the core strategy
• Start prepping early, recruit interviews
• Allows for effective use of priming
126. • Be aware of tense and person
• Use active, authoritative voice when
possible,appropriate
• Posts between 300 to 1000 words
• This is not the SATs, leave fancy words at home
• Write first, edit later