Web professionals often talk about the challenges of repurposing content, creating Web-friendly content, and adapting content for the Web. This chart outlines some of the differences in a succinct way.
Do you have any other points you’d add to this chart? Let me know and I’ll credit your ideas on this blog if you want.
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05.14.2009
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11.04.2008
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When developing content, all design elements must be considered: editorial, interactive, visual and accessible. This chart graphically illustrates and elaborates on each of four elements:
09.23.2008
Categories: best practices, digital practices, eBusiness, eCommerce, eMarketing, guerilla marketing, search, search engine optimization, web design, web management | Comments Off
A clever list of free* Internet guerilla marketing tactics to help promote your product, service or website instantly:
Create a Google Gadget.
You can create Google Gadgets such as a countdown timer (to an event), a list (of ideas, suggestions, products, etc), a microblog (what you’re doing or working on) or a YouTube channel (videos about your company, [...]
05.08.2008
Categories: content, contentology, customer experience, digital practices, information design, interaction design, mal practices, navigation design, reference, usability, web analytics, web design, web strategy | 1 Comment
With apologies to Jakob Nielsen’s Top Ten, here are the Top 10 Mistakes in Web Design, from someone who has worked as a Web Manager and Web Strategist for many years:
1. The Web Strategy doesn’t follow the Business Strategy.
Whether you’re designing for a Fortune 1000 corporation, a SOHO business, a government agency or a non-profit, [...]
06.14.2007
Categories: content, contentology, digital practices, information design, interaction design, navigation design, reference, task flow, usability, user-centred design, web design, web managers, web strategy | Comments Off
In determining site navigation options for Web sites, many Web administrators/developers are satisfied to offer several navigation options to people (e.g. site search + menus + static links) as well as redundant navigation methods (allowing users to choose several ways to arrive at the same content).
However, most people use more than one navigation choice during [...]
01.30.2007
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In January, 2004, I was asked to speak at IQPC’s Content Week conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. The following column is based on my presentation from that event.
You take your car into the shop every couple of years to get its front end aligned every couple of years, so why not do the same for [...]
01.01.2007
Categories: best practices, bioteaming, project management, self-organization, usability, user-centred design, web analytics, web design, web strategy | Comments Off
A new IBM research report suggests that the best analogies for businesses in the future may no longer be the command structures of the military but the self-organising networks found in nature: schools of fish, flocks of birds and swarms of insects. This research, contained in The IBM Global Innovation Outlook 2.0 Report, reinforces Bioteam [...]
12.15.2003
Categories: best practices, content, content management, content management systems, info management, information technology, interviews, metadata, web design, web management, web strategy | Comments Off
Ann, can you tell us briefly about your professional background, and what led you to co-writing Managing Enterprise Content: A Unified Content Strategy?
I have been developing unified content strategies for about 15 years and working with content management systems for about the same period of time. The unified content strategy came about as I realized [...]