Conducting a Content Audit

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Conducting a Content Audit

Laura Creekmore President, Creek Content

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AGENDA① What ② Why and when ③ How ④ Who ⑤ Resources

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1 What

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Content audit

Content inventory

Qualitative audit

Quantitative

audit

Content

matrix

AKA a hot mess…

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AGENDA

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CONTENT INVENTORY

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AGENDA

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CONTENT AUDIT

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2 Why and when

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PLANNING FOR THE CREATION, DELIVERY, AND GOVERNANCE OF USEFUL,

USABLE CONTENT Kristina Halvorson

Founder of Brain Traffic, and author of Content Strategy for the Web

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CONTENT STRATEGY IS A MINDSET AND A TOOLBOX.

IT TURNS YOUR CONTENT INTO A BUSINESS ASSET.

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Pop quiz

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When should you do a content inventory? A. Anytime you work on a website

that doesn’t have one.

B. When you’re redesigning. C. When you need to analyze

your strategy’s effectiveness.

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Ongoing content evaluation

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Tracking campaigns

Consolidating media

Site migration

Eliminate ROT

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AGENDA

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CONTENT PROBLEM?

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AGENDA

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CONTENT INVENTORY

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START HERE

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3 How

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AGENDA

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Inventory/Audit steps①Identify the goal ②Identify the content ③Define the parameters ④Capture content ⑤Evaluate

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Handout

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AGENDA

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IDENTIFY THE GOAL

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Inventory

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AGENDA

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IDENTIFY THE CONTENT

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AGENDA

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Whole vs. partial inventoryKnow what you’re looking for Inventory a little more than enough Against a standard: All Determine next steps/plan/structure: Sample Massive: Use research sampling standards

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AGENDA

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DEFINE THE PARAMETERS

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Handout

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Resources

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AGENDA

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But…

IS IT ANY GOOD?

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AGENDA

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HOW TO EVALUATE YOUR CONTENT

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Content evaluation

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Good Meh CrapNot goodExemplary

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AGENDA

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CAPTURE THE CONTENT

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AGENDA

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PAGES VS. CHUNKS

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Content types

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Person

Actor

Director

Producer

may have roles

Types of Events

Series

Special

Episode

Movie

TV show

of type

of typeconnected to one or more

Content model

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AGENDA

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Inventory/Audit toolsSite crawlers Export from CMS Copy-paste, copy-paste

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Resources

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Resources

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Resources

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Inventory

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Handout

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AGENDA

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Inventory: Give it a try!Work alone or in a group Start an inventory Capture content chunks Capture, evaluate several items

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AGENDA

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Laura’s Made-Up MessagingHealthy Refreshing Cool/stylish Part of your daily routine

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AGENDA

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OTHER KINDS OF EVALUATION

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Reading levels

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https://readable.io/

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Reading levels

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I am going to the store today.

Store the going today I am to.

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Content evaluation

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Reading levels

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http://plainlanguage.gov http://centerforplainlanguage.org

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Content evaluation

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AGENDA

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REFER TO YOUR STRATEGY.

SELECT RELEVANT KPIS AND MEASURE THOSE.

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AGENDA

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GREAT CONTENT IS A BUSINESS ASSET.

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4 Who

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5 Resources

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Resources

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Laura CreekmorePresident Creek Content

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