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Hilary Marsh - Building Your Content Ecosystem

Digital Experience (DX) Summit 2016
Nov. 16, 2016
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Hilary Marsh - Building Your Content Ecosystem

  1. Developing Your Content Ecosystem Hilary Marsh, Chief Strategist & President Content Company, Inc. http://bit.ly/content-eco2
  2. “What’s the government’s policy on Afghanistan?”
  3. Old thinking Staff department Content Audience Staff department Content Audience Staff department Content Audience Staff department Content Audience
  4. Content is political
  5. Content is the way our work is manifested online
  6. Content is… Events Products Classes Programs Research
  7. Content is… My Events My Products My Classes My Programs My Research
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  9. “Every pixel has an owner.” – Paul Ford, former web editor 
 at Harper’s magazine
  10. 21 Content strategy 
 is
 CHANGE MANAGEMENT
  11. 22 User experience 
 is
 CHANGE MANAGEMENT
  12. 23 Digital 
 is
 CHANGE MANAGEMENT
  13. Working together for customer satisfaction
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  15. Organization: Programs, offerings Audience Content Audience Audience Audience New thinking
  16. How to do this • Complementary skillsets • Context • Common use of tags • Trust • Collaboration • Editorial calendar
  17. What is an ecosystem? 28
  18. Characteristics of an ecosystem • Linked together • Interdependent success • Each organism has its own niche or role to play • Separate organisms become a holistic system • The absence of one element can affect all parties
  19. Advocacy effort Course Product Magazine article E-newsletter item Webinar Infographic Event session Topic
  20. Website E-newsletter Publications Conferences Twitter Facebook Blogs LinkedIn Pinterest Community Sharing
  21. Content ecosystem People + Content + Systems 32
  22. When an ecosystem is broken… • Disconnected content • Customer confusion and frustration • Missed opportunities
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  29. How many things to subscribe to?
  30. How many things to subscribe to?
  31. How many things to subscribe to?
  32. Tell/show your value? 45
  33. Tell/show your value?
  34. Tell/show your value?
  35. Tell/show your value?
  36. Causes • Disconnected content • Disconnected systems • Disconnected people 49
  37. What it looks like when a content ecosystem is working
  38. Desktop Experience Mobile Experience
  39. Recommendations’ Logic Cross-sell & Promo Logic
  40. MGM Resorts serves up recommendations based on guests’ location, interests MGM Resorts sends notifications for nearby restaurants, shopping, show deals, coupons, etc., via guests’ smartphones, based on geo-location, loyalty member status, and preferences. Example: MGM Resorts Source:Thismoment/AlCmeter presentaCon, 2015
  41. hFp://www.brookings.edu/research/topics/health
  42. hFp://www.acc.org/clinical-topics/
  43. hFp://www.acc.org/clinical-topics/diabetes-and-cardiometabolic-disease
  44. Cross-merchandising “By focusing on need states, specifically through cross- merchandising, retailers have an opportunity to play against their strengths while giving consumers what they want.” “Creating Ties That Bind” - Progressive Grocer, October 22, 2014
  45. People • Better internal communications • Collaboration • Trust • Change your reward system to encourage/reinforce content sharing and co-creation vs. volume
  46. Content • Decided collectively • Awareness of what else is being created • Consistently used content types • Tagged consistently • Measured • Metrics feedback loop – communicated to stakeholders, and used to inform decisions
  47. Processes/tools • Editorial calendar • Workflow • CMS that can surface related content • Managed by people with the right skills, enough time, and official permission
  48. Thank you! You can download these slides at http://bit.ly/content-eco2 Hilary Marsh Chief Strategist & President Content Company, Inc. http://www.contentcompany.biz hilary@contentcompany.biz @hilarymarsh
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