content strategy vs. the undead
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Implementing a content strategy often involves overcoming significant technological and cultural challenges, but some of these challenges are so scary, so heinous, that they earn a place among the undead because they Just. Won’t. Die! In this session, Bill Swallow will take a look at these nightmare-inducing monsters—from unrelenting copy-and-paste zombies to life-draining, change-avoiding vampires—and show you what can be done to keep your content strategy implementation from turning into a fright fest.TRANSCRIPT
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Content Strategy vs. The Undead
Bill Swallow Scriptorium Publishing
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Content strategy vs.
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Bill Swallow @billswallow
Technical Consultant Scriptorium Publishing www.scriptorium.com My interests: Content strategy Implementation Localization
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Why the undead?
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Why the undead?
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Many reasons for implementing a content strategy
Many facets
Many impediments
Not unlike battling the undead
They JUST... WON'T... DIE!!!
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Zombies
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Zombies
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Mindless
Clumsy, slow moving
Uncommunicative
Destructive
Contagious
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Zombies in our world
Wikipedia
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Zombies in our world
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Unbudging attitude
Unrelenting will to preserve the status quo
Continue to repeat the same actions
Prefer mindless tedium
Resistant to change
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They're not ALL bad
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They're not ALL bad
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Sometimes they're just misunderstood
They may have good intentions
They may have reasons for resisting change
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Tips for survival
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Tips for survival
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DON'T shoot them in the head
Feed their needs while keeping the bigger picture in mind
Find what drives them and harness that in your strategy
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Vampires
Wikipedia
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Vampires
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Blood-suckers
Charismatic
Fear daylight
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Charismatic life-drainers
Wikipedia
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Charismatic life-drainers
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Two distinct varieties:
Someone in your organization who has a different plan
A VERY persistent vendor
Both fear being exposed of their shortcomings
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Your tools for success
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Your tools for success
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Always be prepared (do your homework)
Have a strategy rooted in your company's core goals
The “stake through the heart”: shift the focus back to the core intent/benefit of the strategy
Shed light on the subject to drive them back
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Mummies
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Mummies
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Relentless
Shambling but determined
Guardians of the past
Product of a curse or past desire
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Dedicated and determined
Wikipedia
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Dedicated and determined
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Advocates of existing tools or workflows
Vocal or silent
Summoned by impending change
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Lift the mummy's curse
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Lift the mummy's curse
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Combat them with fulfillment
Acknowledge past successes
Kill them with kindness
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Frankenstein's creature
Wikipedia
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Frankenstein's creature
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Cobbled together from bits and pieces
Has a mind of its own
Misunderstood
A product of science
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Creator vs. creature
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Creator vs. creature
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If not for Victor Frankenstein, the creature would not exist
Misuse of knowledge and technology
You may not always be able to control what you create
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“We belong dead”
Wikipedia
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“We belong dead”
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If you have creatures of your own to wrangle, include them in your strategy
Try not to create more of them
You're a content strategist, not a mad scientist
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Ghosts
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Ghosts
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Spirits, spectres, apparitions...
Things that haunt us
Often unsettling
Potentially hazardous
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Mistakes and regrets
Wikipedia
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Mistakes and regrets
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We carry our ghosts with us
Echos of the past
“Would have/could have/should have”
Unfinished past projects
Past mistakes
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Keep them in check
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Keep them in check
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Don't give in to regret
Don't beat yourself up
Be confident in the direction you've chosen
Adapt your strategy over time
Don't be afraid of no ghost!
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Your own Mystery, Inc.
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Be your own Mystery, Inc.
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Defeat your undead through investigation and preparation
Don't only focus on technology and capability
Personality, dispositions, and history matter
Knowledge and understanding
Unmask the undead for what they really are
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Questions?
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Contact Information
Bill Swallow @billswallow
Scriptorium Publishing www.scriptorium.com
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