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UX Unconference | University of Arizona Libraries | December 6th, 2013

Developing a Website
Content Strategy

Rebecca Blakiston
Website Product Manager
Associate Librarian
@blakistonr
Meet Kristina Halvorson
Content strategy plans for
the creation, publication,
and governance of useful,
usable content.

@halvorson
Audit
Consider goal and scope.
Create a spreadsheet.
Go through your website.
Capture every web page you find.
Clean up
what you
find.
Share what you find broadly.
Oh geez, look
at the mess
we’ve made…
Analysis
What is the purpose to
your content?
What is the current process?
Create editorial
standards.
Strategy
Talk to everyone involved.
Define content roles and
responsibilities.
Role

Responsibility

Requestor

Requests new content, content edits, or content
deletions

Provider

Provides content for publication on the web

Manager

Edits, improves, and manages the lifecycle of web
content

Reviewer

Reviews content before it’s published on the web

Publisher

Publishes content to the web
Establish workflows.
New web
page is
created

Provider
creates
content
Requestor
requests
a page

Manager
creates web
page

Reviewer
approves web
page
Use your content
inventory.
Write like a
human.
Think like a
robot.

Sara Wachter-Boettcher
@sara_ann_marie
Provide resources
and training.
Learn more.
Questions
Rebecca Blakiston
blakistonr@u.library.arizona.edu
@blakistonr

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UX Unconference: Content Strategy

Editor's Notes

  1. Sara Wachter-Boettcher has some great stuff up on slideshare, content strategy consultant.@sara_ann_marie