What does content strategy mean in an organization where “silo” is a matter-of-fact term and not a criticism? How do you introduce new ways of creating content when the organization’s unspoken motto is “that’s the way we’ve always done it”? How do you create consistency and collaboration when divisions have their own budgets, programs, and sometimes even brands? How do you engender trust and promote information-sharing when content creators don’t know one another? And finally, if division strategies include “create X amount of online toolkits,” how do you build the case that creating less content can be better?
These organizational challenges exist in many content-rich organizations and can be equally true for social media channels, intranets, e-newsletters, and websites. Results include large amounts of content that isn’t always of the same quality, audiences that can’t find the information they are looking for, contradictory or outdated information remaining online – and, most important, business goals that are not met.
This presentation was given at Content Strategy Applied USA on November 17-18, 2014
4. • Language/jargon
• Lack of prioritized promotion
• Content hoarding
• Bad editorial processes
• New content missing
• Different content on different channels
THE CHALLENGE
9. “We have a carousel on our website
because politics.”
–
Dave
Olsen,
www.dmolsen.com/
Confab
Higher
Ed
2014
10. WHAT IS CONTENT STRATEGY?
• A strategic statement tying content to business and
user needs
• Who, what, when, where, why, how of publishing and
managing content
• The people, processes, and power to execute that
statement
11.
12. FOR MORE THAN JUST THE WEB
• EMAIL MARKETING
• PRINT
• CALL CENTER SCRIPTS
• INTRANET
• SOCIAL MEDIA
• ADVERTISING/MARKETING
• MOBILE APPS
DIFFERENT TEAMS, CULTURES, REPORTING STRUCTURES
30. 30
–
Mike
Powers,
Director
of
Electronic
CommunicaVons,
Indiana
University
of
Pennsylvania
Confab
2014
“Pageviews aren’t the goal. Your goal
goal is the goal.”
42. “Customers don’t care about you, your
products, or your services. They care
about themselves – their wants and
needs.”
–
Joe
Pulizzi,
Content
MarkeVng
InsVtute
51. 51
CHANGE MANAGEMENT
ISSUES
• Culture shift from "knowledge is power" to "sharing
knowledge is power”
• Need to establish trust....in some cases, for the first
time
• Subject matter experts are not writers —
can't just institute decentralized publishing
overnight.
57. YOUR AGENDA
1. Show what’s broken and why
2. Show solutions and potential, and what it will take to
get there
3. Talk about the pilot efforts and the lessons learned
4. Anticipate roadblocks – raise “what if” scenarios,
talk them through in advance
5. Determine follow-up frequency
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61. SHOW THEM HOW
• MEET REGULARLY – IN PERSON, VIDEO CONFERENCE
• CREATE TUTORIALS
• REPORT ON SUCCESSES
• INCLUDE A LESSON
• RE-INTRODUCE THE PERSONAS AND THE VISION
• REMIND THEM ABOUT THE BUY-IN – IT’S NOT OPTIONAL
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63. FOSTER COLLABORATION
• FORM A CROSS-DEPARTMENTAL EDITORIAL BOARD TO
REVIEW MAJOR REQUESTS TOGETHER
• MOST IMPACTFUL STORIES REQUIRE INFORMATION FROM
MULTIPLE SOURCES
• FACILITATE THE COLLABORATIONS
• SHOW THEM HOW, THEN GRADUALLY PASS ON
OWNERSHIP
73. 73
EVENTUALLY….
Look,
if
it
were
up
to
me,
I
would
leave
that
content
on
the
site,
but
the
decision
is
out
of
my
hands
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77. ABOUT ME
Content
strategy
doer,
manager,
mentor,
teacher
since
1999
…otherwise,
I’m
kniing,
making
granola,
or
playing
guitar
DOING CONTENT STRATEGY SINCE BEFORE CONTENT STRATEGY WAS COOL