My wife recently attended a weekend-long hackathon. I noticed that no one at the competition was a content strategist or content professional. Why not?
A hackathon is a competition where teams compete to create the best version of the concept that they can.
Continue reading Are content professionals represented at hackathons?
Jack Molisani, president of ProSpring Staffing and Executive Director of The LavaCon Content Strategy Conference talks about technical communication hiring, rebranding, content strategy, and how he’s seized opportunities his entire career.
Continue reading Users or people with Jack Molisani – Content Content episode 15
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Content Marketer Teresa Meek has had a varied career path in journalism, real estate, and more, but always focused on writing. She is currently based in Seattle, Washington, from where she talked about how content marketing and technical writing have similarities, her brief career in technical writing, how to transition to content marketing, and more.
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At the end of a very long 2016, I scanned all of the business cards I collected from meetups and conferences. It was quite a pile! While scanning them into Evernote for safe-keeping, a few information architecture issues became apparent.
Business cards are no longer just a way to creatively and memorably share our contact information. They’re also another data point that can be scanned, shared, analyzed, and retained in various ways. Continue reading Architecting your business card information
Alyssa Fox, Director of Information Development and Program Management at Micro Focus, tells us that it’s OK to pause when processing information. We also discuss managing people “fairly, not equally”, why content strategy is difficult, multinational technical communication teams, fashion, and more.
Continue reading It’s OK to pause featuring Alyssa Fox – Content Content podcast episode 13
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