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GHOSTS OF CONTENT STRATEGY:
PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
Content Strategy NYC Meetup
December 7, 2016
Carrie Hane
Tanzen Consulting
@carriehd
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HELLO!
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Content Strategist
CARRIE HANE
Mom
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TONIGHT’S AGENDA
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1 How did we get here?
HISTORY OF CONTENT STRATEGY
2 Where do things stand today?
STATE OF DISCIPLINE TODAY
3 Where are we going and how do we get there?
FUTURE CONTENT STRATEGY
4 What questions to you have?
DISCUSSION
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HISTORY OF CONTENT STRATEGY
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Rachel Lovinger
publishes “Content
Strategy: The
Philosophy of Data”
in Boxes & Arrows
2007
Content Strategy for
the Web is
published
2010
First Confab: The
Content Strategy
Conference is held
and sells out
2011
2,301 jobs returned
for “content
strategist” on Indeed
20162012
2nd edition of
Content Strategy for
the Web introduces
“the Quad”
Krisitna Halvorson
publishes “The
Discipline of
Content Strategy” in
A List Apart
2008
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VOCABULARY OF BACK-END CONTENT STRATEGY
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Back-end
content strategy
Planning appropriate
structure, technology,
and processes to support
content reuse.
Structured
content
Information that is
planned, developed, and
connected outside of an
interface. It treats
content as as data so
that it makes sense to
people and computers.
Content model
A representation of the
types of content and their
relationships.
Content that is structured
to optimize performance
with technology. It is
structurally rich,
semantically categorized,
automatically
discoverable, reusable,
reconfigurable, and
adaptable.
Intelligent
content
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BACK-END CONTENT STRATEGY IN CONTEXT
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BENEFITS OF BACK-END CONTENT STRATEGY
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• Takes content out of its silos
• Atomizes content so it can be reused, remixed, restyled
• Makes content available for each channel, device,
audience segment
• Put technology to work to deliver content
• Focuses on author as user in the design of the CMS
• Ensures extensibility and scalability
• Future friendly – ready for whatever is next
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MY TIMELINE
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2008 2014 20161999
I am a
webmaster!
What am I?
I am a back-
end content
strategist!
I am a
content
strategist!
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We need to be trying to work ourselves out of a job as
content strategists. Success means that content strategy is
not a separate discipline but an integral part of business
strategy and operations.
“
Future of Content Strategy
“
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Senior Leaders
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CEO
Workers
Department Heads
TODAY’S TYPICAL ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
IT
Comms
Marketing
Pubs
UX
CONTENT CREATORS
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FUTURE, CONTENT-ORIENTED STRUCTURE
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CCO
CEO
CIO
Channel Managers System Managers
Social
Web
Email
Print
CRM Server
Analytics
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BACK-END CONTENT STRATEGY IN PRACTICE
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FUTURE-FRIENDLY CONTENT
Defines subject
universe, prioritizes,
aligns stakeholders
DOMAIN MODELING CONTENT MODELING IMPLEMENTATION
Defines which content
to expose &
containers
Plan system to
support content and
relationships
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Questions for you
Is back-end content strategy happening where you work?
How? Where? Why not?
Could you do domain modeling?
Why? How? Why Not?
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THANK YOU
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Carrie Hane
tanzenconsulting.com
carrie@tanzenconsulting.com @carriehd