Content Strategy: You're Soaking in it

Content Strategy You’re Soaking in ItTim Frick | @timfrick Russ Unger | @russu Mightybytes GE Capital

Tim RussMarketing vs. User Experience

Content Strategy & UX Where do we begin?

“Don’t I already do Content Strategy? - UX Professionals, Everywhere“I do Content Strategy every day. - Content Marketers, Everywhere

UX What isUser Experience?

UXImage Source: adaptivepath.com What is User Experience? Image Source: zeldman.com Image Source: Flickr.com ¦ LocalCelebrity Image Source: .net Magazine

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? “ Content strategy guides your plans for the creation, delivery, and governance of content.”Image Sourc e: .net Magaz ine - Kristina Halvorson useful, usable

Content Strategy is:• Creation - Creating, identify the content• Delivery - Making the contents live• Governance - Ma...

? WTF isGovernance

Governance is:• Deﬁning style, tone, voice, clarity• Creating the content• Managing the workﬂow• Planning when the content types happen Say It With Me: Spreadsheets!

Content Strategy is not: • Copywriting • Information Architecture...but Content Strategists may do those

? Do We NeedContent Strategy

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UXKeywords Analytics

A Typical Content Strategy ScenarioMarketing Marketing UX & Web Teams

What?(Mostly Rhymes with “ShmeadSheets”)

Message Architecture Sort & Filter! Image Source: Content Strategy at Work by Margot Bloomstein

Quantitative Audit

Qualitative Audit Image Source: Laura Creekmore / A Project Guide to UX Design 2nd Ed.

Content Matrix

Content Templates Image Source: http://www.contentmarketinginstitute.com/2011/07/template-for-killer-website-content/

Editorial Calendar

Site Maps & WireframesWTF?

“ Site Maps & Wireframes While today content is often conveyed in multiple channels,WTF? seeing the framework concretely through a wireframe or sitemapLaura CreekmCreek Conten t ore enhances the clarity of the communication while you still have time to ﬁx the problems you see in the design.

“Don’t I already do Content Strategy? - UX Professionals, Everywhere“I do Content Strategy every day. - Content Marketers, Everywhere

The Sad TruthMarketing Marketing UX / Web Team

Content Marketing Lifecycle

Content Strategy in Process

Wouldn’t It Be Nice... UX & Content Strategy

Deﬁning CS Success

Climate Ride Strategy Maintain content quality and accuracy Keep target users engaged where they are $ Increase donations

Extreme Content Strategy

User Research

Keyword Research

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Wireframes

Content Management Tools

Social Content Strategy

#climateride

• Lists for each day.• Custom locations.• 84 tips (ﬁnd bathrooms, water stops, etc.)• Lost riders can search to get directions.

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Content Strategy Results• Over $1M raised to date for beneﬁciaries• 70+% conversion rate on donations• Increased sign-up for upcoming rides• Rider numbers have doubled in past year

Content Strategy Results• Signiﬁcant expansion of online reach• 50% increase in amount raised per ride over the last year• Riders raise average of $85 more than last year

Content Strategy Results• Riders reach almost 2000 more donors per ride (up 43% from last year)• Ridership up 46% from last year• 18 riders already registered for 2013!• Earliest ride registration on record

When You Apply Content Strategy Throughout aProject, You Get Results.And Yes, You’ve Probably Been Doing It. Or Avoiding It. So, Soak In It.

When You Apply Content Strategy Throughout aProject, You Get Results.And Yes, You’ve Probably Been Doing It. Or Avoiding It. Nishan t’s Dog TSo, is his Soak In It.

Additional Resources• Content Strategy for the Web by Kristina Halvorson & Melissa Rach• The Elements of Content Strategy by Erin Kissane (A Book Apart, 2011)• Content Strategy at Work: Real-world Stories to Strengthen Every Interactive Project by Margot Bloomstein (Morgan Kaufmann, 2012)• Return on Engagement: Content, Strategy and Design Techniques for Digital Marketing by Tim Frick (Focal Press, 2010)• Clout: The Art and Science of Inﬂuential Web Content by Colleen Jones (New Riders, 2010)• Letting Go of the Words by Janice (Ginny) Redish (Morgan Kaufmann, 2012)

Thank You!Tim Frick | @timfrick Russ Unger | @russu Mightybytes GE Capitaltim@mightybytes.com russ@userglue.com

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