Content Strategy: What's in it for you -- from SXSW 2010
Designing a comprehensive user experience without thinking about body copy, calls to action, errors, and nomenclature? Think again--about content strategy. If you’re an IA, designer, search marketer, or strategist, content strategy can help you understand clients’ needs, articulate an approach, and align with a brand-driven, user-centered message architecture.
Presented by Margot Bloomstein (@mbloomstein) at SXSW, March 12, 2010.
Faster, easier, better, GIMME! Use content strategy to your advantageMargot Bloomstein
Hear noise about timelines and budgets? That rumble is yet another interactive team trying to work content strategy into their existing user experience process. So let’s get personal: why should you care? More importantly, what’s in it for you?
If you’re an information architect, interaction designer, search engine marketer, social media strategist, account manager, or project manager, you’ve got a lot on your plate. Vague client requirements? Check. Endless rounds of revision? More than you can count. And that’s exactly where content strategy can help!
As annoyingly peppy exercise enthusiasts can tell you, waking up to an early-morning run really can give you more energy throughout the day. Content strategy can do the same thing: we’ll discuss how you can incorporate the techniques, thinking, and deliverables of this practice to actually enrich your own work, drive your clients to deliver, help you save time, and shift budget to more worthwhile activities.
Presented at Web 2.0 NYC (#w2e) September 29, 2010.
Brand-driven Content Strategy: Developing a Message Architecture workshop at ...Margot Bloomstein
Brand-driven content strategy complements user-centered design, and this workshop will help you get up to speed on the philosophy, questions, tools, and exercises to implement it. We’ll conduct a hands-on exercise to prioritize communication goals and develop a message architecture—ideal whether you maintain content for the Web, mobile apps, social media, or offline experiences.
Eager for more efficient engagements? You’ll also discover how a brand-attributes card sort can help you identify potential pitfalls and points of disagreement while you improve organizational alignment. Then use this foundation to conduct a qualitative and quantitative content audit.
We’ll discuss the content opportunities a gap analysis can reveal when we use the message architecture as a metric of quality. Trying to manage scope creep? What about seagulling stakeholders? And what content matters most, anyhow?
These questions and other challenges drive content strategy, and the business issues beyond it. What if you need to empower a team, wrangle a client, and rally everyone around a common vocabulary for your primary navigation? No matter your title, it’s time to embrace content strategy, starting with the message architecture.
Join this workshop to build out your content strategy toolkit:
Learn how—and why—to establish a hierarchy of communication goals in a message architecture with a hands-on exercise
Discuss the right questions to ask—and how to ask them—to minimize distracting, off-brand features, like the blog no one has time to update
Gain additional tools to keep your projects on track, on time, and on budget
Content quality is a big deal when pitching creative campaigns to journalists. Alongside the data, story and copy, the design of a campaign can ultimately make or break it.
In this talk, Jazmin will share her learnings from designing creative campaigns for links from the last three-and-a-half years of working in the industry. In particular, she will be exploring how to balance client expectations and what works best for journalists. The talk will also explore do’s and don’ts when designing for digital PR, along with the best ways to create eye-catching campaigns and email pitches that will help you to acquire links in top-tier publications.
Brand-Driven Content Strategy: Creating a Message Architecture Workshop at Co...Margot Bloomstein
Brand-driven content strategy complements user-centered design, and this workshop will help you get up to speed on why and how to implement it. We’ll conduct a hands-on exercise to prioritize communication goals and develop a message architecture—ideal whether you maintain content for the Web, mobile apps, social media, or offline experiences.
From there, you’ll learn how to use a message architecture as the metric against which to measure content in a qualitative content audit. Then carry it into governance: We’ll explore the impact of a message architecture on editorial style guidelines and an editorial calendar—and see how that foundation can improve efficiency and client satisfaction throughout your projects. Discover how a brand-attributes card sort can help you identify potential pitfalls and points of disagreement while you improve organizational alignment through entire engagements.
Trying to manage scope creep? What about seagulling stakeholders? And what content matters most, anyhow? These questions and other challenges drive content strategy, and the business issues beyond it. What if you need to empower a team, wrangle a client, and rally everyone around a common vocabulary for your primary navigation? No matter your title, it’s time to embrace content strategy, starting with the message architecture.
Learn how to establish a hierarchy of communication goals with a hands-on exercise and the right questions to ask along the way to minimize distracting, off-brand features, like the blog no one has time to update.
Discover how to bring brand-driven thinking through subsequent activities, like the content audit and content model.
Explore the impact of the message architecture on “rubber meets the road” details in style, tone, and diction.
Gain additional tools to keep your projects on track, on time, and on budget.
Presented as a workshop at Confab Central, #ConfabCentral, in Minneapolis, June 7, 2017.
20 Proven SEO & Content Marketing Tactics to Grow Organic TrafficSemrush
Discover high growth SEO and Content Marketing tactics. These proven tactics have assisted with growing clients organic & referral traffic by over 1 million unique visitors a month in the Australian market on one domain.
What you will learn:
- SEO and Content Marketing tips for all budget levels to assist with growing traffic.
- Examples of past campaigns which have worked well in the Australian market.
- Effective content promotion tactics.
- Content outreach tactics.
- How to leverage internal business assets to assist your content marketing efforts.
You can also watch video version of the presentation here: www.semrush.com/webinars/20-proven-seo-content-marketing-tactics-to-grow-organic-traffic/
Faster, easier, better, GIMME! Use content strategy to your advantageMargot Bloomstein
Hear noise about timelines and budgets? That rumble is yet another interactive team trying to work content strategy into their existing user experience process. So let’s get personal: why should you care? More importantly, what’s in it for you?
If you’re an information architect, interaction designer, search engine marketer, social media strategist, account manager, or project manager, you’ve got a lot on your plate. Vague client requirements? Check. Endless rounds of revision? More than you can count. And that’s exactly where content strategy can help!
As annoyingly peppy exercise enthusiasts can tell you, waking up to an early-morning run really can give you more energy throughout the day. Content strategy can do the same thing: we’ll discuss how you can incorporate the techniques, thinking, and deliverables of this practice to actually enrich your own work, drive your clients to deliver, help you save time, and shift budget to more worthwhile activities.
Presented at Web 2.0 NYC (#w2e) September 29, 2010.
Brand-driven Content Strategy: Developing a Message Architecture workshop at ...Margot Bloomstein
Brand-driven content strategy complements user-centered design, and this workshop will help you get up to speed on the philosophy, questions, tools, and exercises to implement it. We’ll conduct a hands-on exercise to prioritize communication goals and develop a message architecture—ideal whether you maintain content for the Web, mobile apps, social media, or offline experiences.
Eager for more efficient engagements? You’ll also discover how a brand-attributes card sort can help you identify potential pitfalls and points of disagreement while you improve organizational alignment. Then use this foundation to conduct a qualitative and quantitative content audit.
We’ll discuss the content opportunities a gap analysis can reveal when we use the message architecture as a metric of quality. Trying to manage scope creep? What about seagulling stakeholders? And what content matters most, anyhow?
These questions and other challenges drive content strategy, and the business issues beyond it. What if you need to empower a team, wrangle a client, and rally everyone around a common vocabulary for your primary navigation? No matter your title, it’s time to embrace content strategy, starting with the message architecture.
Join this workshop to build out your content strategy toolkit:
Learn how—and why—to establish a hierarchy of communication goals in a message architecture with a hands-on exercise
Discuss the right questions to ask—and how to ask them—to minimize distracting, off-brand features, like the blog no one has time to update
Gain additional tools to keep your projects on track, on time, and on budget
Content quality is a big deal when pitching creative campaigns to journalists. Alongside the data, story and copy, the design of a campaign can ultimately make or break it.
In this talk, Jazmin will share her learnings from designing creative campaigns for links from the last three-and-a-half years of working in the industry. In particular, she will be exploring how to balance client expectations and what works best for journalists. The talk will also explore do’s and don’ts when designing for digital PR, along with the best ways to create eye-catching campaigns and email pitches that will help you to acquire links in top-tier publications.
Brand-Driven Content Strategy: Creating a Message Architecture Workshop at Co...Margot Bloomstein
Brand-driven content strategy complements user-centered design, and this workshop will help you get up to speed on why and how to implement it. We’ll conduct a hands-on exercise to prioritize communication goals and develop a message architecture—ideal whether you maintain content for the Web, mobile apps, social media, or offline experiences.
From there, you’ll learn how to use a message architecture as the metric against which to measure content in a qualitative content audit. Then carry it into governance: We’ll explore the impact of a message architecture on editorial style guidelines and an editorial calendar—and see how that foundation can improve efficiency and client satisfaction throughout your projects. Discover how a brand-attributes card sort can help you identify potential pitfalls and points of disagreement while you improve organizational alignment through entire engagements.
Trying to manage scope creep? What about seagulling stakeholders? And what content matters most, anyhow? These questions and other challenges drive content strategy, and the business issues beyond it. What if you need to empower a team, wrangle a client, and rally everyone around a common vocabulary for your primary navigation? No matter your title, it’s time to embrace content strategy, starting with the message architecture.
Learn how to establish a hierarchy of communication goals with a hands-on exercise and the right questions to ask along the way to minimize distracting, off-brand features, like the blog no one has time to update.
Discover how to bring brand-driven thinking through subsequent activities, like the content audit and content model.
Explore the impact of the message architecture on “rubber meets the road” details in style, tone, and diction.
Gain additional tools to keep your projects on track, on time, and on budget.
Presented as a workshop at Confab Central, #ConfabCentral, in Minneapolis, June 7, 2017.
20 Proven SEO & Content Marketing Tactics to Grow Organic TrafficSemrush
Discover high growth SEO and Content Marketing tactics. These proven tactics have assisted with growing clients organic & referral traffic by over 1 million unique visitors a month in the Australian market on one domain.
What you will learn:
- SEO and Content Marketing tips for all budget levels to assist with growing traffic.
- Examples of past campaigns which have worked well in the Australian market.
- Effective content promotion tactics.
- Content outreach tactics.
- How to leverage internal business assets to assist your content marketing efforts.
You can also watch video version of the presentation here: www.semrush.com/webinars/20-proven-seo-content-marketing-tactics-to-grow-organic-traffic/
Cognitive Solutions – The What, Where and How - 3XE DigitalEduardas Gricius
3XE Digital Proudly presents:
Kevin Koidl, CEO of Wripl Technologies
This talk will demystify what is meant by term “cognitive“ and how Cognitive Solutions can (and are) being applied by marketing professionals and business leaders across the globe. Specifically, Kevin will provide a range of marketing case studies where cognitive solutions have been applied. Some of the topics being covered include Trend Prediction, Machine Learning and Advanced schema-based SEO techniques.
**presentation is NOT for commercial use**
For more info visit: www.3xedigital.com
You've heard of content strategy, but is it up to the test? And if you submit your content to usability testing, are you testing the right things? This is bigger than learning about labels and confirming calls to action--so strap in for an exciting evening. We've got a lot to discuss!
Gain insight to content strategy processes and learn how to evaluate quality in the eyes of your target audience. Learn how--and why--to establish a hierarchy of communication goals in a message architecture with a hands-on exercise. Test out a basic content audit to evaluate content quantitatively and qualitatively. Draw on user feedback to determine content needs and next steps for content creation. Learn how to inform your work with an air-tight approach to better user experiences--and why no organization can afford to avoid content strategy. You'll leave with the confidence and savvy to bring content strategy thinking into your own process.
Presented at UPA 2012, Las Vegas; #UPA2012, June 4, 2012.
The Art and Psychology of Storytelling in B2BOmobono
Go on, tell us a story. At Omobono we firmly believe that we all have an interesting story to tell. And this is our guide to telling yours...
We're in the business of helping B2B brands make connections with customers, stakeholders, and employees through content & experiences. Emotional, exciting narrative content is fast becoming a tool for B2B audiences to liven up their communications.
Will you go on a quest, defeat a monster or go from rags to riches? Our actionable guide has suggestions for how to structure your story so that is has true emotional impact for your audience.
Because who said B2B had to be boring?
70+ slides of highlights and quotes from all of the MozCon Day #1. See all of our coverage at http://www.contentharmony.com/blog/mozcon-2013-coverage/ & http://www.contentharmony.com/blog/mozcon-2013-tools/
Learn Inbound 2016 > Content Marketing's Jerry Maguire MomentSimon Penson
Learn Inbound is Ireland's foremost digital marketing conference. It was also the platform from which Zazzle founder Simon Penson launched a new campaign against the current 'misuse' and 'misunderstanding' of what content marketing is, and how it should be delivered.
How To Create Blog Posts Your Readers Will Want To ShareScripted.com
On January 21, Scripted's Chief Revenue Officer — J.D. Peterson — and InboundWriter's CEO, Skip Besthoff, teamed up to talk about how marketers can make their articles more shareable. From discussing idea generation to debunking common content myths, the two provided actionable ways marketers can get their content ready for their readers to share today.
Waking up in Seattle: you're the one that they want!Margot Bloomstein
"Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together... and I knew it." So shared Tom Hanks, as Sam in Sleepless in Seattle. He's pining for old love--but he might as well be pining for a content strategist! Content strategy offers the "million tiny little things" that add up to a more cohesive, consistent user experience--and that's valuable to designers, IAs, social media strategists, project managers, and other web strategy types. Whether your team needs to better understand your client's needs, articulate an approach, or align tactical decisions with a brand-driven, user-centered message architecture, content strategy can help. We'll discuss how the questions a content strategist brings to the table can enrich your deliverables and ways to reframe an RFP to upsell content strategy in your next pitch and bring a new partner into the user experience team. Because yeah, you're supposed to be together.
Presented at Content Strategy Seattle, #CSSea, October 13, 2010.
Are you trying to find ways to better communicate your brand, connect with your audience, help your clients’ tactical decisions align with their marketing goals, or minimize rounds of revision to optimize your project budget? Content strategy can help. If you rock design, IA, content development, social media, or other areas of marketing, media, or advertising, let’s talk. Learn how you can incorporate insights from this aspect of user experience design into your next content-related project. We'll discuss how the questions that a content strategist brings to the table can enrich your deliverables and benefit your end users—and how you can integrate content strategy into your next pitch, RFP, marketing plan or creative process.
Presented at Content Strategy Portland, #CSPDX, October 14, 2010.
What's your bag? Design, IA, or web project management? Whatever your area of focus in shaping the user experience, partnering with a content strategist can help you get what you want. 2010 has been a breakout year for the industry, so let's talk about how you can incorporate insights and deliverables from content strategy into your next project.
We'll discuss how the questions a content strategist brings to the table can enrich your deliverables and benefit your end users—and how you can reframe the RFP to upsell content strategy in your next pitch and get what you want along the way.
Presented at Vancouver User Experience, #VanUE, October 12, 2010.
Facebook? Twitter? Jive? What about that central web presence? If you're marketing a brand, you probably juggle consistency issues across many platforms--and that's where content strategy can help. Join us to discuss the main tenets and most relevant tools and techniques that make content strategy an ideal part of building a cohesive, consistent experience for your target audience.
Presented as an Awareness webinar, #awarenessinc, October 27, 2010.
Leave them begging for more: drive demand for content strategyMargot Bloomstein
Drive demand, flaunt results, & leave ’em begging for more -- from Web Content Chicago 2010
Content strategy has long been an "emerging" component of user experience and interaction design. Guess what? It's here--and here's how you can help the rest of your team realize that, appreciate it, and demand more of it. On a role-by-role basis, this talk described how you can make the case and earn the budget. Whether you work with IAs, designers, search marketers, social media strategists, project managers, account managers, or just eager clients, here's how you can use content strategy to help them improve deliverables, clarify the approach, hone iterations, and improve the end user experience. And who wouldn't want that?
Presented by Margot Bloomstein (@mbloomstein) at Web Content Chicago, June 8, 2010.
Guest lecture to Josh Silverman's Design Specification class at the Art Institute of Boston on the role and benefits of content strategy in the context of visual design.
Presented by Margot Bloomstein (@mbloomstein) at Art Institute of Boston, February 5, 2010.
Cognitive Solutions – The What, Where and How - 3XE DigitalEduardas Gricius
3XE Digital Proudly presents:
Kevin Koidl, CEO of Wripl Technologies
This talk will demystify what is meant by term “cognitive“ and how Cognitive Solutions can (and are) being applied by marketing professionals and business leaders across the globe. Specifically, Kevin will provide a range of marketing case studies where cognitive solutions have been applied. Some of the topics being covered include Trend Prediction, Machine Learning and Advanced schema-based SEO techniques.
**presentation is NOT for commercial use**
For more info visit: www.3xedigital.com
You've heard of content strategy, but is it up to the test? And if you submit your content to usability testing, are you testing the right things? This is bigger than learning about labels and confirming calls to action--so strap in for an exciting evening. We've got a lot to discuss!
Gain insight to content strategy processes and learn how to evaluate quality in the eyes of your target audience. Learn how--and why--to establish a hierarchy of communication goals in a message architecture with a hands-on exercise. Test out a basic content audit to evaluate content quantitatively and qualitatively. Draw on user feedback to determine content needs and next steps for content creation. Learn how to inform your work with an air-tight approach to better user experiences--and why no organization can afford to avoid content strategy. You'll leave with the confidence and savvy to bring content strategy thinking into your own process.
Presented at UPA 2012, Las Vegas; #UPA2012, June 4, 2012.
The Art and Psychology of Storytelling in B2BOmobono
Go on, tell us a story. At Omobono we firmly believe that we all have an interesting story to tell. And this is our guide to telling yours...
We're in the business of helping B2B brands make connections with customers, stakeholders, and employees through content & experiences. Emotional, exciting narrative content is fast becoming a tool for B2B audiences to liven up their communications.
Will you go on a quest, defeat a monster or go from rags to riches? Our actionable guide has suggestions for how to structure your story so that is has true emotional impact for your audience.
Because who said B2B had to be boring?
70+ slides of highlights and quotes from all of the MozCon Day #1. See all of our coverage at http://www.contentharmony.com/blog/mozcon-2013-coverage/ & http://www.contentharmony.com/blog/mozcon-2013-tools/
Learn Inbound 2016 > Content Marketing's Jerry Maguire MomentSimon Penson
Learn Inbound is Ireland's foremost digital marketing conference. It was also the platform from which Zazzle founder Simon Penson launched a new campaign against the current 'misuse' and 'misunderstanding' of what content marketing is, and how it should be delivered.
How To Create Blog Posts Your Readers Will Want To ShareScripted.com
On January 21, Scripted's Chief Revenue Officer — J.D. Peterson — and InboundWriter's CEO, Skip Besthoff, teamed up to talk about how marketers can make their articles more shareable. From discussing idea generation to debunking common content myths, the two provided actionable ways marketers can get their content ready for their readers to share today.
Waking up in Seattle: you're the one that they want!Margot Bloomstein
"Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together... and I knew it." So shared Tom Hanks, as Sam in Sleepless in Seattle. He's pining for old love--but he might as well be pining for a content strategist! Content strategy offers the "million tiny little things" that add up to a more cohesive, consistent user experience--and that's valuable to designers, IAs, social media strategists, project managers, and other web strategy types. Whether your team needs to better understand your client's needs, articulate an approach, or align tactical decisions with a brand-driven, user-centered message architecture, content strategy can help. We'll discuss how the questions a content strategist brings to the table can enrich your deliverables and ways to reframe an RFP to upsell content strategy in your next pitch and bring a new partner into the user experience team. Because yeah, you're supposed to be together.
Presented at Content Strategy Seattle, #CSSea, October 13, 2010.
Are you trying to find ways to better communicate your brand, connect with your audience, help your clients’ tactical decisions align with their marketing goals, or minimize rounds of revision to optimize your project budget? Content strategy can help. If you rock design, IA, content development, social media, or other areas of marketing, media, or advertising, let’s talk. Learn how you can incorporate insights from this aspect of user experience design into your next content-related project. We'll discuss how the questions that a content strategist brings to the table can enrich your deliverables and benefit your end users—and how you can integrate content strategy into your next pitch, RFP, marketing plan or creative process.
Presented at Content Strategy Portland, #CSPDX, October 14, 2010.
What's your bag? Design, IA, or web project management? Whatever your area of focus in shaping the user experience, partnering with a content strategist can help you get what you want. 2010 has been a breakout year for the industry, so let's talk about how you can incorporate insights and deliverables from content strategy into your next project.
We'll discuss how the questions a content strategist brings to the table can enrich your deliverables and benefit your end users—and how you can reframe the RFP to upsell content strategy in your next pitch and get what you want along the way.
Presented at Vancouver User Experience, #VanUE, October 12, 2010.
Facebook? Twitter? Jive? What about that central web presence? If you're marketing a brand, you probably juggle consistency issues across many platforms--and that's where content strategy can help. Join us to discuss the main tenets and most relevant tools and techniques that make content strategy an ideal part of building a cohesive, consistent experience for your target audience.
Presented as an Awareness webinar, #awarenessinc, October 27, 2010.
Leave them begging for more: drive demand for content strategyMargot Bloomstein
Drive demand, flaunt results, & leave ’em begging for more -- from Web Content Chicago 2010
Content strategy has long been an "emerging" component of user experience and interaction design. Guess what? It's here--and here's how you can help the rest of your team realize that, appreciate it, and demand more of it. On a role-by-role basis, this talk described how you can make the case and earn the budget. Whether you work with IAs, designers, search marketers, social media strategists, project managers, account managers, or just eager clients, here's how you can use content strategy to help them improve deliverables, clarify the approach, hone iterations, and improve the end user experience. And who wouldn't want that?
Presented by Margot Bloomstein (@mbloomstein) at Web Content Chicago, June 8, 2010.
Guest lecture to Josh Silverman's Design Specification class at the Art Institute of Boston on the role and benefits of content strategy in the context of visual design.
Presented by Margot Bloomstein (@mbloomstein) at Art Institute of Boston, February 5, 2010.
Establishing a Brand-driven Message Architecture WebVisions NYCMargot Bloomstein
Trying to manage scope creep? What about seagulling stakeholders? And what content matters most, anyhow?
These questions and other challenges drive content strategy. If you’re a designer planning for content or a developer tailoring the CMS to specific content types, they’re your challenges, too. If you need to empower a team, wrangle a client, and rally everyone around a common vocabulary for your primary navigation, forget your title. It’s time to embrace content strategy, starting with the message architecture.
Brand-driven content strategy complements user-centered design, and this workshop will help you get up to speed on the philosophy, questions, tools, and exercises to implement it. We’ll conduct a hands-on exercise to prioritize communication goals and develop a message architecture—ideal whether you design for the web, mobile apps, social media, or offline experiences. Then use this foundation to learn about a qualitative and quantitative content audit, content types, and editorial style guidelines. We’ll discuss the content opportunities a gap analysis reveals when we use the message architecture as a metric of quality. You’ll leave with the savvy and experience to bring brand-driven content strategy techniques and thinking into your own work.
What you can expect:
Learn how—and why—to establish a hierarchy of communication goals in a message architecture with a hands-on exercise
Discuss the right questions to ask—and how to ask them—to minimize distracting, off-brand features, like the blog no one has time to update
Use a content audit to evaluate content against the message architecture
Gain additional tools to keep your projects on track, on time, and on budget
Presented as a workshop at WebVisions NYC, April 7, 2016, at WebVisions in New York.
Are you trying to get approval on your comps, save budget, govern the tone of your client's Tweets, or manage a project that--gasp!--includes content? No matter your role, bringing a content strategist on to your team can help--without bloating the budget! Here's how to make the case for content strategy.
Presented by Margot Bloomstein (@mbloomstein) at Content Strategy New York City, February 11, 2010.
Making Meaning in Content and Design (Bloomstein at HOW)Margot Bloomstein
How do you rally stakeholders around a unified user experience that’s consistent across design and content? That’s the challenge of a modern designer. Fortunately, content strategy is a powerful ally in that challenge. Amid constrained budgets, tight timelines, and unlimited interaction expectations, can you really add another tool to your toolkit? Can you afford to focus on content too? Yes—and you can’t afford to “let the client worry about it” any longer. We’ll discuss the value content strategy can add to your work and how it can help you streamline your process to save time and keep stakeholders happy. Then, we’ll discuss how to prioritize communication goals and develop a message architecture with a hands-on exercise—ideal whether you’re designing for the web, a mobile app, social media, or an offline experience. Finally, you’ll learn how to create consistency between copy, channels, and the typography and imagery you develop for those channels. There’s meaning in consistency, and you’ll explore how to master it in content and design.
Presented at HOW Interactive Design Conference, #HIDC, November 6, 2013, in Chicago.
Content Strategy: What's In It For You? at Atlanta Content StrategyMargot Bloomstein
What's your focus in user experience—design, information architecture, SEO, project management? No matter your role, bringing a content strategist on to your team can help you better understand your client's needs, articulate your approach, and align your tactical decisions with an overall brand-driven, user-centered message architecture. And it doesn't have to bloat the budget! Here's how to make the case for content strategy.
Presented by Margot Bloomstein (@mbloomstein) at Atlanta Content Strategy, January 21, 2010.
Know thyself: Your school's message-driven content strategyMargot Bloomstein
Before you can determine content types and prioritize channels, consider the roots of communication--and education. Start at home. Start in Delphi, in ancient Greece. You'll find instructions key to learning, communication, and brand-driven content strategy: know thyself. What does that mean in higher ed? Consider your communication goals and hierarchy of brand attributes. We'll discuss how they drive style and tone, content types, and the look and feel of your content—and how a message architecture helps ensure your audit is more meaningful and content is more consistent.
Presented at Confab Higher Ed, #ConfabEDU, November 12, 2013, in Atlanta.
Are you ready to dig into content strategy? Let's gain some practical, hands-on experience together. Take a few example healthcare organizations through the paces in a website redesign engagement. First, we'll discuss how to prioritize communication goals and develop a message architecture with a hands-on exercise--ideal whether you're designing for the web, a mobile app, social media, or an offline experience. Then we'll discuss how you can use this foundation to conduct a content audit, and work together to do just that. Finally, we’ll ask "so what?" We'll uncover the implications of a content audit through a gap analysis that points to content needs and next steps for our sample organizations. You'll leave with the confidence and savvy to bring content strategy techniques and thinking back to your own organization.
Presented at the Healthcare Experience Design Conference, #HXDconf, March 27, 2012.
Establishing a Brand-Driven Message Architecture Workshop at HOWMargot Bloomstein
Brand-driven content strategy complements user-centered design, and this workshop will help you get up to speed on the philosophy, questions, tools, and exercises to implement it. We’ll conduct a hands-on exercise to prioritize communication goals and develop a message architecture—ideal whether you design for the web, mobile apps, social media, or offline experiences.
Eager for more efficient engagements? You’ll also discover how a brand attributes cardsort can help you identify potential pitfalls and points of disagreement while you improve organizational alignment. Then use this foundation to conduct a qualitative and quantitative content audit. We’ll discuss the content opportunities a gap analysis reveals when we use the message architecture as a metric of quality.
Trying to manage scope creep? What about seagulling stakeholders? And what content matters most, anyhow? These questions and other challenges drive content strategy; they’re basic issues to any designer planning for content. But what if you’re not a content strategist? What if you need to empower a team, wrangle a client, and rally everyone around a common vocabulary for your primary navigation? No matter your title, it’s time to embrace content strategy, starting with the message architecture.
You’ll leave with the savvy and experience to bring brand-driven content strategy techniques and thinking into your own work.
Presented as two sold-out workshops at HOW Design Live, #HOWLive, May 12, 2014 in Boston.
Online experiences can be fast, efficient and easy—but sometimes, that’s all wrong! Users click Buy too soon, miss important details or don’t find content that aids conversion. Efficient isn’t always effective and fast isn’t always functional. In fact, some of the most memorable web engagements employ “slow content strategy” with design considerations and content types that aid stickiness and retention. Margot Bloomstein will lead you through examples from a range of industries to see how you can manage—and slow—the pace at which users move through your website designs to create experiences that aid learning, fuel anticipation and create memories.
Content Strategy: What's In It For You? at Refresh BostonMargot Bloomstein
When you're shaping a user experience, what tune do you sing — typography? Interaction affordances? Taxonomy? Keyword enrichment? Whether you're a designer, social media consultant, IA, SEO specialist, or PM, content strategy can help you more clearly understand your client's needs, articulate your approach, and align your tactical decisions with an overall brand-driven, user-centered message architecture. Here's how to make the case.
Presented by Margot Bloomstein (@mbloomstein) at Refresh Boston, December 8, 2009.
The Secrets of Brand-Driven Content Strategy (Workshop)Margot Bloomstein
Facing feature creep and disagreements among stakeholders? Does your CMO prize modernity and innovation, while the CEO insists on passive voice… but can’t wait to start blogging? Sounds like you need to get a grip on content, the people who make it—and the brand they want to establish.
Brand-driven content strategy can complement your user-centered design techniques, and this workshop will help you get up to speed on the philosophy, questions, tools, and exercises to implement it. You’ll gain practical, hands-on experience by taking sample organisations through a website redesign engagement. First, we’ll conduct a hands-on exercise to prioritise communication goals and develop a message architecture—ideal whether you’re designing for the web, a mobile app, social media, or an offline experience. Discover how a brand attributes cardsort can help you identify potential pitfalls in the engagement and points of disagreement—and then improve organisational alignment around the brand and content.
Next you’ll use this foundation to conduct a qualitative and quantitative content audit. We’ll discuss the content opportunities a gap analysis reveals when we use the message architecture as a metric of quality content. You’ll leave with confidence, savvy, and experience to bring brand-driven content strategy techniques and thinking back to your own organisation.
- Learn how—and why—to establish a hierarchy of communication goals in a message architecture with a hands-on exercise.
- Discuss the right questions to ask—and how to ask them—to minimise distracting, off-brand features, like the blog no one has time to update.
- Use a content audit to evaluate content against the message architecture.
- Gain additional tools to keep your projects on track, on time, and on budget.
- Inform your work with an air-tight approach to better user experiences.
Presented as a workshop at CS Forum 2012, Cape Town South Africa; #CSForum12, October 24, 2012.
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Keynote: Transforming Your Brand Into a Trusted Source at OmnichannelXMargot Bloomstein
Mass media and our most cynical memes say we live in a post-fact era. Who can we trust—and how do our users invest their trust? Without addressing those challenges, marketing falls flat. Expert opinions are a thing of the past; we favor user reviews from “people like us” whether we’re planning a meal or prioritizing a newsfeed. But as our filter bubbles burst, consumers and citizens alike turn inward for the truth. By designing for empowerment, the smartest organizations meet them there.
Empower your audience to earn their trust. Presenting a new strategy for content and design that addresses empowerment, Margot will share examples from retail, publishing, government, and other industries to detail what you can do to meet unprecedented problems in information consumption. Learn how voice, volume, and vulnerability can inform your design and content strategy to earn the trust of your users, build their confidence, and strengthen your brand. Embracing a new strategy, your work can drive something even more important: hope.
Delivered as a keynote to OmnichannelX 2020, #OmniXConf, in Amsterdam and virtually by Margot Bloomstein, @mbloomstein. (c) 2020 Margot Bloomstein.
Fostering Trust in Your Brand and Beyond at Rosenfeld Enterprise ExperienceMargot Bloomstein
Thursday March 12 • 11am-12pm ET • convert to your time zone here
Join the call via this Zoom videoconference link: https://zoom.us/j/120101278 or dial one of the following numbers and log in with meeting ID 120 101 278: +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) / +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) / find your local number
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We must empower our audiences to earn their trust—not the other way around—and our tactical choices in content and design can fuel empowerment. Margot Bloomstein will walk you through examples from retail, publishing, government, and other industries to detail what you can do to meet unprecedented problems in information consumption. Learn how voice, volume, and vulnerability can inform your design and content strategy to earn the trust of your users. Let’s address the tough questions: How do brands develop rapport when audiences let emotion cloud logic? Is there a place for vulnerability in corporate strategy? And what’s the role of command and control consistency in the creative work of a corporate enterprise? Learn how these questions can drive design choices in organizations of any size and industry—and discover how your choices can empower users and rebuild our very sense of trust across society itself.
Presented in a Rosenfeld Media Enterprise Experience webinar March 12, 2020 by Margot Bloomstein.
Designing for Trust in an Uncertain World at An Event Apart San FranciscoMargot Bloomstein
Mass media and our most cynical memes say we live in a post-fact era. So who can we trust—and how do our users invest their trust? Expert opinions are a thing of the past; we favor user reviews from “people like us” whether we're planning a meal or prioritizing a newsfeed. But as our filter bubbles burst, consumers and citizens alike turn inward for the truth. By designing for empowerment, the smartest organizations meet them there.
We must empower our audiences to earn their trust—not the other way around—and our tactical choices in content and design can fuel empowerment. Margot will walk you through examples from retail, publishing, government, and other industries to detail what you can do to meet unprecedented problems in information consumption. Learn how voice, volume, and vulnerability can inform your design and content strategy to earn the trust of your users. We'll ask the tough questions: How do brands develop rapport when audiences let emotion cloud logic? Can you design around cultural predisposition to improve public safety? And how do voice and vulnerability go beyond buzzwords and into broader corporate strategy? Learn how these questions can drive design choices in organizations of any size and industry—and discover how your choices can empower users and rebuild our very sense of trust itself.
Presented at An Event Apart San Francisco, #aeasf, on December 9, 2019 by Margot Bloomstein
Designing for Trust in an Uncertain World An Event Apart DCMargot Bloomstein
To regain their trust, we must empower our users. Expert opinions are a thing of the past; we favor user reviews from “people like us” whether we're planning a meal or prioritizing a newsfeed. But as our filter bubbles burst, consumers and citizens alike turn inward for the truth. By designing for empowerment, the smartest organizations meet them there.
In an age of cynicism, we can design for trust: our tactical choices in content and design can fuel empowerment. Examples from the FBI, Mailchimp, NIH, GOV.UK, and America's Test Kitchen demonstrate what you can do to meet unprecedented problems in information consumption. Focusing on voice, volume, and vulnerability can inform your design and content strategy to earn the trust of your users and rebuild our very sense of trust itself.
Presented by Margot Bloomstein, @mbloomstein, at An Event Apart Washington DC, #aeadc, on July 29, 2019.
Mass media and our most cynical memes say that we live in a post-fact era. So who can we trust and how do our users use their trust? Expert opinions are a thing of the past, and we prefer user reviews written by "people like us", whether we select a restaurant or scan a newsfeed. But when the filter bubbles burst, consumers and citizens alike turn back inside to find the truth. Through designs that "empower", the smartest organizations meet them right there. We need to empower and empower our audience to gain their trust, not the other way around, and only through tactical decisions about content and design, empowerment can be initiated.
Margot Bloomstein presents examples from a variety of industries and shows in detail how to deal with unexpected problems in the consumption of information. Learn how language, volume, and vulnerabilities can influence your design and content strategy to win the trust of your users. It asks the difficult questions, such as "How can brands build a harmonious bond when the logic of their audience is overshadowed by their emotions? Can one "design around" cultural dispositions to improve public safety? And how do your voice and vulnerability stand out against mere buzz words and penetrate into a broader business strategy?
Presented at design monat Graz, #designmonatgraz2019, in Graz Austria in conjunction with FH | Joanneum by Margot Bloomstein, @mbloomstein. (c) 2019 Margot Bloomstein.
Rebuilding Trust: Validate users by starting where they are at Confab 2019Margot Bloomstein
Before we engage users with products, interfaces, and content, we need their trust. Trust is waning today; users disregard traditional sources of expertise and bring skepticism to even innocuous interface copy. Can you blame them? Popular media, politicians, and big-name brands are gaslighting, talking down, and talking too much about themselves.
Let’s do better: Exploring examples from insurance, consumer goods, and online education, you’ll see how the right content validates audience beliefs and life experience to move them forward. Margot will go deeper into themes she first brought to Confab last year to unpack tactics of style and tone that use vulnerability to foster trust, educate audiences—and ultimately reinvigorate brands.
Discover the key changes in diction (beyond just mirroring your audience’s vocabulary) you can make to invite users in to your brand, as champions rather than consumers.
Learn how content that asks questions, exposes process, and loses the polish can build goodwill and engender greater faith from your audience.
Gain practical examples of how—and why—to talk about mistakes, challenges, and screwups with your audience while ensuring Legal remains your biggest fan.
Presented at Confab 2019, #confab2019, by Margot Bloomstein on April 25, 2019, in lovely Minneapolis.
Design for Trust: Find Strength in Vulnerability, Voice, and Volume at CMC2019Margot Bloomstein
How do you earn the trust of your customers, readers, and fans when facts are out—and what “feels right” wins? Mass media and our most cynical memes say we live in a post-fact era. That idea undermines any marketing that promotes ideas, products, services, or politician… and it tracks with trends in social media: our customers turned away from experts and big brands to let “people like us” influence choices instead. But we’re popping those filter bubbles. Now consumers turn inward for the truth—and by embracing vulnerability and designing for empowerment, the smartest organizations meet them there.
Drawing on lessons from America’s Test Kitchen, Crutchfield, GOV.UK, and Volkswagen, discover tactics of content strategy and design to foster trust, build rapport, and increase loyalty by learning to “prototype in public" and lean into vulnerability, using voice to strengthen your base, and determine the right volume for your users' goals.
Designing for Trust in an Era of Self-Validating Facts: Keynote UX in the Cit...Margot Bloomstein
Consumers and citizens alike turn inward for the truth. By designing for empowerment, the smartest organisations meet them there.
We’ll explore why trust in the old guard has fallen apart - and then examine how today’s smartest companies and institutions rebuild trust by bolstering their customers’ knowledge. We’ll dig into examples from the public and private sector to ask: how do brands develop rapport when audiences let emotion cloud logic? What happens when cultural predisposition affects public safety? And how do voice and vulnerability go beyond buzzwords and into broader corporate strategy?
You’ll see how to use tactics of design and content to empower users. The same tactics can work across industries, scale and audience. You’ll uncover a play-by-play approach to educating and empowering consumers and citizens alike - and learn how to operationalise vulnerability through design that rebuilds hope itself.
Keynote presented at UX in the City Manchester, #UXCityMCR, on March 14, 2019, in Manchester UK.
Designing for Trust in an Uncertain World at An Event Apart SeattleMargot Bloomstein
We must empower our audiences to earn their trust—not the other way around—and our tactical choices in content and design can fuel empowerment. Margot will walk you through examples from retail, publishing, government, and other industries to detail what you can do to meet unprecedented problems in information consumption. Learn how voice, volume, and vulnerability can inform your design and content strategy to earn the trust of your users. We'll ask the tough questions: How do brands develop rapport when audiences let emotion cloud logic? Can you design around cultural predisposition to improve public safety? And how do voice and vulnerability go beyond buzzwords and into broader corporate strategy? Learn how these questions can drive design choices in organizations of any size and industry—and discover how your choices can empower users and rebuild our very sense of trust itself.
Presented by Margot Bloomstein, @mbloomstein, at An Event Apart Seattle, #aeasea on March 4, 2019.
Designing trust in an era of self-validating facts at Fluxible 2018Margot Bloomstein
Mass media and our most cynical memes say we live in a post-fact era. If that’s the case, who can we trust — and how do we invest our trust? We used to seek experts as arbiters of reality, but then looked to “people like us” whether we were picking a restaurant, planning a vacation, or clicking on a trending news item. But as our filter bubbles burst, consumers and citizens alike began to turn inward for the truth — and by designing for empowerment, the smartest organizations meet them there.
In this exploration of some of today’s most engaging brands, content strategist Margot Bloomstein draws on two decades of personal experience building trust into companies, their websites, and their broader messaging. Author of Content Strategy at Work and the forthcoming Trustworthy, she explores why trust in the old guard has fallen apart — and then presents how today’s smartest companies and institutions rebuild trust by building and bolstering the knowledge of their customers. We’ll dig into examples from America’s Test Kitchen, Volkswagen, Crutchfield, GOV.UK, and other organizations of the public and private sector to ask: How do brands develop rapport when audiences let emotion cloud logic? What happens when cultural predisposition affects public safety? And how do voice and vulnerability go beyond buzzwords and into broader corporate strategy?
You’ll see how design and content come together to empower users — and how the same tactics can work across industries, scale, and audience. You’ll uncover a play-by-play approach to educating and empowering consumers and citizens alike — and learn how thoughtful design and content can rebuild our sense of trust itself.
Presented by Margot Bloomstein at Fluxible 2018, #fluxible2018, on September 23, 2018, in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario Canada.
How to Embrace Pace with Content Strategy for Slow ExperiencesMargot Bloomstein
Fast and efficient may rule the web, but efficient experiences aren’t always effective, for many reasons. Instead, try slowing down your customers to improve learning and advance their journey. Fast-to-publish and quick-to-sell can lead to low lifetime value, shopping cart abandonment, returned merchandise—and understandably unhappy reviews. Attend this session, and learn how to craft appropriately-paced customer experiences that allow the time and space for discovery, customer confidence, and insights that last long after the conversion. The secrets live in how you craft copy and prioritize content types to move customers forward wisely, to enjoy the journey mile after mile.
Presented at Content Marketing Conference 2018, #CMC18, in Boston, May 3, 2018
Content Strategy for Slow Experiences at Generate NYC 2018Margot Bloomstein
Online experiences can be fast, efficient, easy, orderly—and sometimes, that's all wrong! Users click to confirm too soon, confuse important details, or miss key features in product descriptions. Efficient isn't always effective. Not all experiences need to be fast to be functional. In fact, some of the most memorable and profitable engagements are slow and messy... and that’s just right.
By designing for pace, we can intentionally help users focus on details and gain confidence in their choices. We can also encourage their sense of discovery and help them build stronger memories. Not all experiences need to be slower, but content strategy can help identify and support these outliers of user experience. Look to REI, Target, Fidelity, Patagonia, Disney, and others for lessons you can apply to aid learning, retention, and user satisfaction. Help your audience soak up the journey or just engage with more certainty, all by design.
Presented by Margot Bloomstein at Generate 2018, #generateconf, on April 27, 2018, in New York City.
Empowerment in an era of self-validating facts at World IA Day BostonMargot Bloomstein
As we wrangle with the focus of World IA Day, "IA for good," we should start by asking: what does it mean to be good in the context of IA, user experience, content strategy, and design? In this post-fact era, does the truth matter--and does good matter?
It does--not in how we shift our loyalties, but in how our users shift their instincts. Inconsistency affects us and destroys trust--in brands, governments, wisdom, and ourselves. The most good IA can do is to empower the impact of our users. Design is a force multiplier and we can fuel that good.
Keynote at World IA Day Boston, #WIADBOS, #WIAD18, February 24, 2018, in Cambridge MA.
Driving Your Product's Content Strategy with a Message Architecture at UX Lon...Margot Bloomstein
Brand-driven content strategy complements user-centred design to use prioritised communication goals to focus new features, content types, and the workflow to create and maintain them. In this workshop, you’ll get up to speed on the philosophy, questions, tools, and exercises to implement brand-driven content strategy. We’ll use BrandSort™ to conduct a hands-on exercise to prioritise communication goals and develop a message architecture—ideal whether you maintain content for the web, mobile apps, social media, offline experiences, or any imagined output of your CMS. Eager for more efficient engagements? You’ll discover how a brand attributes card sort can help you identify potential pitfalls and points of disagreement while you improve organisational alignment. Then we’ll discuss the content opportunities a gap analysis can reveal when we use the message architecture as a metric of quality in a content audit.
Join this workshop to build out your content strategy toolkit:
Learn how—and why—to establish a hierarchy of communication goals in a message architecture with the hands-on BrandSort exercise.
Discuss the right questions to ask—and how to ask them—to minimise distracting, off-brand features, like the blog no one has time to update.
Gain additional tools to keep your projects on track, on time, and on budget
Presented at UX London in London, #UXLondon, on May 24, 2017.
Communicating in an Era of Self-Validating Facts at SXSWMargot Bloomstein
The 2016 US presidential election revealed a post-fact culture. Previously, catching someone in a lie could sully their name, derail a campaign, or decimate a brand—ask Gary Hart, Richard Nixon, and former governor and Appalachian Trail enthusiast Mark Sanford. Today, lies matter less… not to brands, but to their audiences. Emotion replaces logic. So how do you develop rapport when your audience tests proof points against their own convictions? Can mass media validate fact if “truthiness” trumps truth? Can you harness opposing perspectives without ceding to false equivalency? Most importantly, we’ll discuss how to empower audiences to embrace the courage of their convictions on your behalf.
Presented at SXSW in Austin, #sxsw and #factstalk, on March 14, 2017.
Behind Your Back: How Other Industries Talk About Higher Ed at ConfabEDU 2016Margot Bloomstein
Long before you target prospective students, they’re forming opinions, narrowing options, and determining costs… without talking to you. They’re hearing other voices—and what those voices say may surprise you. Today, organizations like Peterson’s, Sallie Mae, and College Confidential help students vet schools and determine budgets, conversations previous generations had with guidance counselors and college recruiters.
Discover how publishers and financial institutions are earning trust through new choices in content types, calls to action, and partner investments. As higher education draws scrutiny for cost and relevance, it’s time to learn from adjacent industries and reframe the conversation from your own institution.
Learn how students gain confidence in their choices as they navigate the application and aid processes.
Discover what prospects look for when determining what resources deserve their time, attention, and trust.
Uncover how partners can strengthen your brand in the topics students value—especially when they don’t want to hear about those topics from you.
Presented at Confab Higher Ed 2016, #ConfabEDU, in Philadelphia November 15, 2016.
Content Strategy for an Era of Self-Validating Facts at CSsummitMargot Bloomstein
The 2016 US presidential election reveals a post-fact culture. Previously, catching someone in a lie could sully their name, derail a campaign, or decimate a brand--ask Gary Hart, Richard Nixon, and former governor and Appalachian Trail enthusiast Mark Sanford.
Today, lies matter less. Not to brands, but to their audiences. Emotion replaces logic. So how do you choose content types to develop rapport when your audience tests proof points against their convictions? Can mass media validate fact if "truthiness" trumps truth? Can you harness opposing perspectives without ceding to false equivalency? Most importantly, we'll discuss how to empower audiences to embrace the courage of their convictions on your behalf.
Presented at the online Content Strategy Summit 2016, #CSsummit, August 25, 2016.
Jumpstarting content strategy with a message architecture at Converge2015Margot Bloomstein
Trying to manage scope, stakeholders, and shifting priorities? Need to determine a consistent voice among multiple authors? Content strategy can help. Amid constrained resources, competing priorities, and a contributory culture, content strategy can help us focus and do less—but do what really matters. Margot will discuss how to empower communicators and rally everyone around a common vocabulary for use in print, traditional web communication, and social media.
Presented at Converge 2015, #Converge2015, October 22, 2015 in New Orleans.
Expanding our expectations of "everyone" at Content Strategy Summit 2015Margot Bloomstein
Content strategy both champions and makes possible the idea that "everyone is a publisher." New platforms and approaches to collaboration let us reframe the conversation beyond traditional book publishing. But with challenges to net neutrality and inconsistent network connectivity in the developing world, do we need to limit our definition of "everyone" to just the white and wealthy world and the more cutting-edge businesses it spawns?
Maybe that's the case today, but today is the mirror of realism. The future is the undefined outcome of optimism—and we have many reasons to be optimistic.
Looking at emerging examples from modern business culture, Silicon Valley investment strategies, and communication trends beyond the United States, Margot Bloomstein will map out challenges and opportunities for publishing in the coming decades.
The author of Content Strategy at Work: Real-World Stories to Strengthen Every Interactive Project, Bloomstein will explore how content strategy will work in the future to aid the changing face of publishing. Who will practice it? Will power align with technology, quality, perspective, or a combination of all three? And how will we define "publishing," anyhow?
Presented at Content Strategy Summit, #CSSummit, online, on September 22, 2015
Brand-driven Content Strategy: Developing a Message Architecture at Confab In...Margot Bloomstein
Brand-driven content strategy complements user-centered design, and this workshop will help you get up to speed on the philosophy, questions, tools, and exercises to implement it. We’ll conduct a hands-on exercise to prioritize communication goals and develop a message architecture—ideal whether you maintain content for the Web, mobile apps, social media, or offline experiences.
Eager for more efficient engagements? You’ll also discover how a brand-attributes card sort can help you identify potential pitfalls and points of disagreement while you improve organizational alignment. Then use this foundation to conduct a qualitative and quantitative content audit. We’ll discuss the content opportunities a gap analysis can reveal when we use the message architecture as a metric of quality. Trying to manage scope creep? What about seagulling stakeholders? And what content matters most, anyhow? These questions and other challenges drive content strategy, and the business issues beyond it. What if you need to empower a team, wrangle a client, and rally everyone around a common vocabulary for your primary navigation? No matter your title, it’s time to embrace content strategy, starting with the message architecture.
Presented as a three-hour workshop at Confab Intensive, #ConfabINT, in Portland OR on August 31, 2015.
Can AI do good? at 'offtheCanvas' India HCI preludeAlan Dix
Invited talk at 'offtheCanvas' IndiaHCI prelude, 29th June 2024.
https://www.alandix.com/academic/talks/offtheCanvas-IndiaHCI2024/
The world is being changed fundamentally by AI and we are constantly faced with newspaper headlines about its harmful effects. However, there is also the potential to both ameliorate theses harms and use the new abilities of AI to transform society for the good. Can you make the difference?
Book Formatting: Quality Control Checks for DesignersConfidence Ago
This presentation was made to help designers who work in publishing houses or format books for printing ensure quality.
Quality control is vital to every industry. This is why every department in a company need create a method they use in ensuring quality. This, perhaps, will not only improve the quality of products and bring errors to the barest minimum, but take it to a near perfect finish.
It is beyond a moot point that a good book will somewhat be judged by its cover, but the content of the book remains king. No matter how beautiful the cover, if the quality of writing or presentation is off, that will be a reason for readers not to come back to the book or recommend it.
So, this presentation points designers to some important things that may be missed by an editor that they could eventually discover and call the attention of the editor.
Transforming Brand Perception and Boosting Profitabilityaaryangarg12
In today's digital era, the dynamics of brand perception, consumer behavior, and profitability have been profoundly reshaped by the synergy of branding, social media, and website design. This research paper investigates the transformative power of these elements in influencing how individuals perceive brands and products and how this transformation can be harnessed to drive sales and profitability for businesses.
Through an exploration of brand psychology and consumer behavior, this study sheds light on the intricate ways in which effective branding strategies, strategic social media engagement, and user-centric website design contribute to altering consumers' perceptions. We delve into the principles that underlie successful brand transformations, examining how visual identity, messaging, and storytelling can captivate and resonate with target audiences.
Methodologically, this research employs a comprehensive approach, combining qualitative and quantitative analyses. Real-world case studies illustrate the impact of branding, social media campaigns, and website redesigns on consumer perception, sales figures, and profitability. We assess the various metrics, including brand awareness, customer engagement, conversion rates, and revenue growth, to measure the effectiveness of these strategies.
The results underscore the pivotal role of cohesive branding, social media influence, and website usability in shaping positive brand perceptions, influencing consumer decisions, and ultimately bolstering sales and profitability. This paper provides actionable insights and strategic recommendations for businesses seeking to leverage branding, social media, and website design as potent tools to enhance their market position and financial success.
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