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This week I attended another of Tom Hewitson ‘s excellent  Content Lab sessions, this time looking at how creative writing exercises can feed into content design. Although Content Strategy/Content Design/ContentMarketing are fairly new disciplines, it’s already fairly easy to follow ‘established’ methods which may not break any exciting new ground. I know that might be controversial so I’ll let that one hang for a while… Anyway, at the session we had the wonderful Jacqui Loft

If you’ve ever wondered what a ‘Rock Box’ or ‘Squealer’ was, well, tonight was your night at the latest UXPA UK event hosted by Lisa Moore at City University campus. We heard from there great speakers on the topic of ‘Content, Context and Community’, presented to the mostly UX crowd but with a healthy contingent of content strategists now appearing in the ranks. Kudos to Lisa for getting more of us involved at these events. First up, Yelp London Director  Alex Shebar  on ‘Pu

Gather Content organized a great webinar today with Clout author Colleen Jones . Here are my notes from the session: This webinar took from her forthcoming book ‘Does your Client’s Content Work’ due for release in 2014 It’s all about how to evaluate if your content is meeting your goals,  having the right impact and affecting operational efficiency. Doing all this in a systematic way. The book will be featuring a new tool called ‘Content Works’ which will help content strate

Last week I drunk more coffee than I ever need to know, completing a particularly tricky content audit. Fear not, because Gather Content...

The North Downs – my training ground. Although this blog is all about content strategy, I thought I’d share with you another of my...

The UXPA UK panel . Last night, I attended another fantastic UXPA UK event hosted at Sapient House, London, to discuss agile in the...

This month electronic pioneer, producer and ex-member of Depeche Mode, Alan Wilder releases his ‘Selected’ compilation – a summary of his best work as Recoil solo artist. I spoke to him when he was taking a brief break from his current European tour to find out more about the release, making music and if he has plans to work with ‘The Mode’ again. Hi Alan, you’re back with an album and tour. I have to ask: why now? Well, Mute Records approached me with an idea for a compilat