Useful links for digital communicators (April 2017)

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Ipad and glasses (CC) Sebastien Wiertz/FlickrCatch up on our recommended reads from April, featuring industry insight, professional development and training articles, and useful links from the field of digital communications.

We also post regularly to our Firehead’s Twitter and LinkedIn pages, so please do connect with or follow us there.

Here’s what we’ve been bookmarking and reading over the past month across the fields of content strategy, tech comm, UX and digital communications recruitment. This month we’ve been delving particularly into metadata and taxonomies.

Artificial intelligence

Augmented reality

Content – creation, strategy, sharing

Metadata and taxonomies

Tech comm

UX/design

Workplace trends

Image: (CC) Sebastien Wiertz/Flickr

CJ Walker

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