1001 content strategy links

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Want to learn a little more about content strategy?

We’ve picked out the best articles, posts, slideshows, connections, videos and links by content strategists and thought leaders, covering everything you could ever want to know about content strategy.

UPDATE: we’ve divided our list into easier-to-use sections, from intros and must-reads to case studies and how-tos.

Community

  1. Halvorson’s Content Strategy Community on the Web
  2. Google Group Community Content Strategy
  3. LinkedIn Content Strategy group
  4. Consorting with Content
  5. Dos and Don’ts for Starting a Content Strategy Meeting
  6. The Information Gathering Spot: Addressing the Terrible Truth About People and Information
  7. Google Content Strategy Knol

Must-reads

  1. The Discipline of Content Strategy – Kristina Halvorson
  2. Content Strategy: the Philosophy of Data – Rachel Lovinger
  3. Content-ious Strategy – Jeffrey MacIntyre
  4. The Content Strategist as Digital Curator – Erin Scime
  5. The Case for Content Strategy, Motown Style – Margot Bloomstein

Introduction to content strategy

  1. What is Content Strategy and Why Should You Care? – Amy Gahran
  2. Content Strategy: As Boring as it Sounds? – Gabriel Smy
  3. Small Businesses Need Content Strategy Like a Camel in the Night – Gabriel Smy
  4. Costly Problems Content Strategy Solves for SMEs – Gabriel Smy
  5. Free Content Strategy Blog Fodder. And a Hammer. – Kristina Halvorson
  6. Five Reasons Why Content Strategy Comes Before Social Media – Joe Pulizzi
  7. When Content Management Needs a Content Strategy – Jeffrey MacIntyre
  8. Sparksheet Interview with Kristina Halvorson – Dan Levy
  9. Content Strategy: What’s in it for You? – Elena Melendy
  10. The Content Strategy Land Rush – Destry Wion
  11. Do I Really Need a Content Strategy? – Barbara Gago
  12. Why I Embrace Content Strategy (And You Should Too) – Stacey King Gordon
  13. Why you need a content strategist – Relly Annett-Baker
  14. Appreciating content strategy as a whole – RS Gracey
  15. Are clients ready? – New Media Age
  16. Filter or be flooded: do you need a content strategist? – Steve Rosenbaum
  17. Content strategy is, in fact, the next big thing – Kristina Halvorson
  18. Slideshow introducing Content Strategy – Jeff MacIntyre
  19. Content Strategy starter kit for beginners

Writing and content strategy

  1. Applying Writing Guidelines to Web Pages – Morkes and Neilsen, 1998
  2. Concise, SCANNABLE, and Objective: How to Write for the Web – Morkes and Nielsen, 1997
  3. Anatomy of 150 Words or Less – Kristina Mausser
  4. Stop Killing Your Best Work – Jonathan Kahn
  5. Writing Content That Works for a Living – Erin Kissane
  6. Content Templates to the Rescue – Erin Kissane
  7. Better Writing Through Design – Bronwyn Jones
  8. Compelling Content: Irresistably Shareable vs. Content Farms – Clinton Forry
  9. Content Strategy for Everybody (Even You) – Karen McGrane
  10. Anti-Tech-Writer Bias in Content Strategist Hiring?

Design and content strategy

  1. The Content Conundrum – Christopher Detzi
  2. Embrace Content Strategy: Throw out your design process – Jonathan Kahn
  3. In Defense of Lorem Ipsum – Karen McGrane

UX and content strategy

  1. New Rules for Judging Quality in Published Content – Ben Elowitz
  2. A Parisian content strategy metaphor – Elizabeth McGuane
  3. Content Strategy: It’s not all Greek to Anyone Anymore – Gretchen Thomas
  4. Treasure and the Hunt: A Content Strategy Take on the User Experience – Rahel Bailie
  5. How to Alienate customers and Drive Away Prospects – Rahel Bailie
  6. Consequences of Not Having a Good Content Strategy – Rahel Bailie
  7. Usability doesn’t matter if your content isn’t useful – J. Todd Bennett
  8. Content Strategy: Sitting at the Customer Experience Table – Kathy Hanbury
  9. Taking content strategy out of the proposal – Ian Alexander
  10. Content Testing: Early, Often, & Well – Colleen Jones

Measuring content strategy

  1. Measuring Content Strategy: Not a Piece of Cake – Keri Maijala

Conference reports

  1. SXSW highlights and trends: content strategy – Adam Schwabe
  2. Content Strategy forum Paris roundup: volcanoes, wine and a big room of writers – Randall Snare
  3. Content Strategy Convergence Sparks Volcanic Eruption – Erin Scime
  4. Top 10 takeways from the 2010 Content Strategy Forum – Newt Barrett
  5. SXSW: Content Strategy – Fancy Name for a ‘Plan,’ or Key to Marketing Communication?

[We’ll be putting together a list of useful conferences soon so grab our RSS feed to ensure you get it – CJ]

How-tos and presentations

  1. Content is King – Karen McGrane
  2. Empire building 101: Designing a Custom Content Strategy – Jean Berg-Sarauer
  3. Content Strategy, or: Let’s Make a Mixtape – Clinton Forry
  4. Content Strategy by Phase – Rachel Lovinger
  5. Content Lifecyle – Rahel Bailie
  6. Disspelling Myths About the Content Lifecycle – Rahel Bailie
  7. Dispelling More Content Myths – Rahel Bailie
  8. Three Steps to Becoming the Industry Expert: Content Strategy, the Water Cooler and a Book – Joe Pulizzi
  9. The B.E.S.T Method for Content Strategy (What you do before content marketing) – Joe Pulizzi
  10. Content Strategy as Vegetable Gardening – Richard Thompson
  11. Content Strategy: The Rhythm Method – Richard Thompson
  12. Content Strategy for Free – Tiffani Jones
  13. Separating Content Strategy Needs from Wants – Richard Thompson
  14. Contente – content strategy blog
  15. Writing for the Web: the Right Strategy – Shay Howe
  16. A “DIY” Guide to Content Strategy – Jonathan Kahn
  17. Content strategy for the web professional – Johnathan Kahn
  18. Towards Content Quality – Colleen Jones
  19. Modelling Content Strategy with Content Flow Diagrams – David Gillis
  20. Web Content Strategy – How to Plan for, Create and Publish Online Content for Maximum ROI – Joe Pulizzi

Case studies

  1. Creating a Content Strategy for your Web Site, Blog, Social Networks – Joanna Pineda
  2. A Case Study in Content Strategy? – Fiona Cullinan
  3. Content Strategy Case Study: Jurkowitz & Co. – Tiffani Jones

The content strategist’s skillset

  1. What Makes a Content Strategist? – Rachel Lovinger
  2. On the Difference Between Content Strategists and Web Editors – Kenneth Yau
  3. The Content Strategist’s Elevator Pitch – Keri Maijala
  4. Moving from Journalist to Content Strategist – Joe Pulizzi
  5. Multi-Faceted Content Strategy – Kathy Hanbury
  6. The Content Strategy Mind Map – Richard Sheffield
  7. Anatomy of a content strategist – Rahel Bailie

Content strategy across platforms

  1. Content strategy for social media – Steve Sponder
  2. Mobile Content: The Return of Shovelware? – Erin Scime
  3. How to develop a content strategy process (for your blog) – Valeria Maltoni
  4. Content Strategy: More than a Bunch of Tactics – Kristina Halvorson

Content strategy for large organisations

  1. The Incidental Publisher – J. Todd Bennett
  2. Content strategy includes convergence, integration, and syndication

Accessibility and localisation

  1. SEO: It’s About Sticky-Gooey-Sweet Content – Stacey King Gordon
  2. Work Accessibility into your Content Strategy – Richard Ingram
  3. Content Strategy in Europe and in European Projects – Sylvie Daumal
  4. Localisation and content strategy – Kenneth Yau

More links

  1. Ok, ok, time to come clean: the other 900 links aren’t listed here but they are out there on the intertubes.

    Try those tagged Content Strategy on Delicious (725), Digg (207), Reddit (9), Technorati (16) and Twitter (ongoing).Also, check out Business Exchange’s feed of content strategy links.

    Kristina Halvorson’s Brain Traffic has now put up a list of resources.

    And at Firehead, we’ll be adding to our growing Europe-based content strategy thoughts right here on the Firehead blog.

List compiled by CJ Walker, Firehead CEO, and Fiona Cullinan, Firehead blogger, May 2010.

CJ Walker

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