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Content: A Blessing, A Bubble, A Burden // Content Strategy

Posted by Christopher Butler on August 7, 2012 · Comments Off

Everyone is talking about content. Googling the phrase “content strategy” retrieves almost 50 million results — a clear indicator that interest in content is very much in the zeitgeist. By the time you read this, I expect that number will have grown even higher. But I also suspect that the substance of the talk would be quite different if content were [...]

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How Content Creators Benefit From The New SEO

Posted by Brad Shorr on June 28, 2012 · Comments Off

Due to big changes in the SEO landscape, designers, photographers, videographers and writers have new opportunities to build their reputation, expand brand awareness and generate more leads. This post describes five important developments that content creators should be aware of, and then we’ll outline several ways to capitalize on them. Five SEO Developments [...]

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How Content Creators Benefit From The New SEO

Posted by Brad Shorr on June 28, 2012 · Comments Off

Due to big changes in the SEO landscape, designers, photographers, videographers and writers have new opportunities to build their reputation, expand brand awareness and generate more leads. This post describes five important developments that content creators should be aware of, and then we’ll outline several ways to capitalize on them. Five SEO Developments [...]

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Quick Course On Effective Website Copywriting

Posted by Peep Laja on May 18, 2012 · Comments Off

Many dismiss copywriting as something that ad agency people do. Truthfully, all of us need to pay close attention to copywriting if we want to achieve our business objectives. The goal of a “regular” text is to inform or entertain. The goal of Web copy (and ideally your website in general) is to get people to do something—to sign up, make a purchase, [...]

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The Art Of Content Marketing

Posted by Craig Anderson on March 16, 2012 · Comments Off

A few months ago I went to collect a friend from hospital. Arriving early, I entered the waiting room and noticed in-house magazines stacked by the door. I picked one up, grabbed a coffee and took a seat. The magazine read like a very long press release, blabbering on about patient-centric care and employee awards. I was quickly bored, so I read from my phone instead. [...]

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The Art Of Content Marketing

Posted by Craig Anderson on March 16, 2012 · Comments Off

A few months ago I went to collect a friend from hospital. Arriving early, I entered the waiting room and noticed in-house magazines stacked by the door. I picked one up, grabbed a coffee and took a seat. The magazine read like a very long press release, blabbering on about patient-centric care and employee awards. I was quickly bored, so I read from my phone instead. [...]

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Content Strategy Within The Design Process

Posted by Brad Shorr on December 2, 2011 · Comments Off

The first thing to understand about content strategy is that no two people understand it the same way. It’s a relatively new — and extremely broad — discipline with no single definitive definition. A highly informative Knol on content strategy defines [...]

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Fluidity Of Content And Design: Learning From Where The Wild Things Are

Posted by Sarah Bauer on November 17, 2011 · Comments Off

Have you read Where the Wild Things Are? The storybook has fluidity of content and design figured out. It goes that one night, protagonist Max “wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind or another.” He hammers nails into walls, pesters a small dog. Author [...]

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The Role Of Design In The Kingdom Of Content

Posted by Jason Gross on October 24, 2011 · Comments Off

If content sits at the top of the food chain, why do we spend so much time talking about the finer points of design? Every day we debate, experiment with and discuss topics that easily fall into the category of aesthetics, enhanced functionality and layout; in [...]

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How Disregarding Design Limits The Power Of Content

Posted by Christopher Butler on October 17, 2011 · Comments Off

It appears to be a reader’s market. More written content is freely available than ever before, accessible in just about every format you could imagine. If you want it on paper, you’ve got it. On screen? What size, friend? We can shrink, stretch and stitch it [...]

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