You want it when?! Content strategy for an impatient world
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Before we begin…
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“You want it when?!?”
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Sarah O’Keefe @sarahokeefe
Scriptorium Publishing
Sarah O’Keefe, @sarahokeefe
❖ Founder and president, Scriptorium Publishing, www.scriptorium.com, North Carolina
❖ Coauthor with Alan Pringle of Content Strategy 101
❖ Interested in intersection of content, publishing, and technology
Flickr: mytmossWe need velocity.
Content strategy Support the
organization’s business goals using information
and information products.
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Velocity and content strategy…
Know the business
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Align with business goals
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Style guides and terminology
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Voice and tone
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Production systems
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Intelligent content
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Integration
Know the business Align with business goals Style guides and terminology Voice and tone Production systems Intelligent content Integration
How do we make it happen?
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Operations need to be impeccable.
Authoring velocityFlickr: pedrosz
Reduce, reuse, recycle
Editing velocity
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Controlled language software
Production velocity
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Production system must automate formatting.
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Distribution velocity
Localization velocity
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Good source content Machine translation Automated formatting (again)
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Global content strategy
should be redundant.
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Globalization drives content strategy.
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Efficient localization is a basic prerequisite.
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What drives efficient localization?
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HINT: It’s not the service provider.
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It’s the quality of the input.
Localization: just along for the ride.
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A computer can do morethan a typewriter.
Low-quality source content = inefficient localization
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Image: NASA
In a multilingual workflow, inefficiency = death.
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In a monolingual workflow, inefficiency = slow death.
We cannot survive unless we evolve. Quickly.
Content has never been for the faint of heart…
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We must adapt to changes…
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Prioritize
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The old way is not going to work.
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One last thing…
Questions?