As promised last week, here is our super-roundup of links from Confab Central, the calendar’s biggest content strategy conference.
Video presentations
Check out the YouTube playlist, featuring a range of talks from Anil Dash to Kristina Halvorson.
Slides
Some speakers have also posted their slides.
- From Neverland to Tomorrowland: Adventures in Digital Storytelling by Michael Haggerty-Villa
- Content by any other name by Amanda Krauss
- How Great SEO Fuels Great Content Strategy by Alex Volk
- Content Strategy for Personalization by Colin Eagan
- More research, more frequently: How to sell your stakeholders on research by Chris Avore
- Reduce, reuse, restructure: The in-house content strategist’s guide to structured content by Christopher Hess
- Clarity Through Content Strategy by Scott Kuble
- Collaborative techniques: How to create usable content that meets business goals by Audun Rundberg
- A New Model for Content Strategy by Kathy Wagner and Melissa Breker
(they’ve also posted an explanatory post on Content Strategy Inc’s new content strategy model). - The Self-Directed Strategist: Building a Practice and Managing Organizational Change by Corey Vilhauer
- Speak your users’ language by James Callan
- Content Teamwork Workshop by Kathy Wagner and Melissa Breker
Soundbites
Here are some pithy quotes for you to borrow throughout the rest of the year.
- Best quotes from Confab Central 2016
The award for most retweets goes to Tracy Playle for “”A website w/o a content strategy is the equivalent of a digital sociopath.” She also spotted this one from Michael Haggerty-Villa: “Can we please stop forcing our users into ‘submission’ when they complete forms?” Stop saying “submit”. And we think Mike Atherton’s “Content is ‘king hard” takes some beating.
Notes
Live from Confab
Marli Mesibov has written comprehensive notes on a number of Confab presentations, including:
- Content strategy for personalization
- Customer service design
- Toward humane tech
- Creating a Content Lab
- Better suggestions through tagging
- Understanding your audience
Key takeaways and reviews
Here is a selection of the post-event blogged reviews.
Highlights from Confab 2016
Ahava Liebtag, Confab speaker, reveals her takeaways, from how to define yourself as a content strategist to modern metadata solutions.
Everything you missed at Confab Central
Andrea Burton gives the content view from the perspective of a product designer, including onboarding, personalisation through metadata and digital storytelling.
How to create user-centric digital experiences in 2016
A similar set of takeaways from a UX designer, adding in research into your audience.
Content Strategy for Designers
Self-admitted “non-content-strategist” Dana Pavlichko gives a nice view of how she sees content strategy overlapping with design.
Everything You Need to Know from Confab 2016
A superquick list summary – we enjoyed the recommended books, shows and tools section.
My Patronus is the pizza rat: A love story about content strategy
A UX designer falls in love with content strategy.
Twitterview Post-#ConfabMN
A Twitter interview with several content strategists from Three Deep Marketing reviewing #confabMN.
Five Smart Takeaways from Confab Central
From audience understanding and the pros of transparency to humane tech and Prince as a content strategy powerhouse.
