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Content strategy and transformation: joining the dots Julius Honnor: @juliushonnor Contentious: @contentiousltd contentious.ltd 1. Whats the problem? 2. Whats the opportunity? 3. Whats content strategy? 4. How can we get there? 5.


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Content strategy and transformation: joining the dots

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Julius Honnor: @juliushonnor Contentious: @contentiousltd contentious.ltd

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  • 1. What’s the problem?
  • 2. What’s the opportunity?
  • 3. What’s content strategy?
  • 4. How can we get there?
  • 5. Party bag.
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  • 1. What’s the

problem?

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Share your content pain points. sli.do #E467

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  • 1. Let’s just get it out there.
  • 2. Content by committee.
  • 3. I went to a meeting; here’s my blog post.
  • 4. Can you turn my PDF into web content?
  • 5. More is more.
  • 6. We need to be on Instagram.
  • 7. We need a shiny video.
  • 8. Underpants on the outside.
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These things are indicative of big problems. Structural, political and cultural issues manifest themselves in your organisation’s content and therefore in your

  • rganisation’s relationships with people.
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These problems are not things that content marketing can fix.

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  • 2. What’s the
  • pportunity?
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What’s the treasure at the end of the rainbow? Not just great content…

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Happy content = Happy people = Happy organisations

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Effective content = Effective people = Effective organisations

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  • 3. What’s

content strategy?

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How can content strategy help?

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Content = all the stuff.

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Strategy = a master plan for how to get from where you are now to where you want to be.

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Content strategy = working

  • ut how content can help you

achieve your aims and then creating, delivering and managing it in an effective and sustainable way.

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How good a grasp does your

  • rganisation have on the

strategic importance of content? sli.do #E467

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  • 4. How can we get there?
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Map Analyse

Align Create Embed

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Map

  • 1. Make a spreadsheet.
  • 2. Put your stakeholders on it.
  • 3. Categorise them. Champions, showstoppers,

money people, strategic decision makers.

  • 4. Add their motivations.

What you’ll need: a spreadsheet, a safe place, fearlessness.

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Analyse

  • 1. Ask some big questions.
  • 2. Listen hard to the answers.
  • 3. Write down what you’ve learned.

What you’ll need: a list of questions, things to record the answers, a document.

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Align

  • 1. Find your angles.
  • 2. Add them to your spreadsheet.
  • 3. Share what you know, openly.

What you’ll need: thinking time, a coffee shop loyalty card, some slides.

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Create

  • 1. Have a brainstorming workshop.
  • 2. Work your magic.
  • 3. Create an annotated sentence.

What you’ll need: a good chocolate brownie recipe, post-its and Sharpies, Sketch or draw.io. Possibly a content strategist.

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Embed

  • 1. Release it into the wild.
  • 2. Tell the story of how you got here.
  • 3. Map out next steps.

What you’ll need: Blu Tack, a strong narrative thread.

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  • 5. Party bag
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Some small content gifts to take away

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How content is your content?

contentious.ltd/how-content-is-your-content

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Content tips

contentious.ltd/subscribe/

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These slides

contentious.ltd/slides/joining-the-dots.pdf

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Further reading (and watching)

Creating a content strategy at a non-profit, Josh Tong: goo.gl/WjHgxy Content Strategy for the Web, Kristina Halvorson: contentstrategy.com Content in the Zombie Apocalypse, Karen McGrane: goo.gl/pjXLZH Connecting the disciplines, Brain Traffic: goo.gl/YmdkGu

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Julius Honnor: @juliushonnor Contentious: @contentiousltd contentious.ltd

Thank you. And good luck!