Here’s our March roundup of industry links, professional development and training insights and useful reads from the field of digital communications.
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Here’s what we’ve been bookmarking and reading over the past month, from design psychology to content strategy, machine learning to mobile tech comm.
Content – creation, strategy, sharing
- Why use GitHub as a Content Management System? (JustWriteClick)
- History of Content Marketing: An Infographic (Outbrain)
- How To Build A Rock Solid User Onboarding Process! (WhatFix)
- Arriving at Content Strategy (Gather Content)
- How publishers squeeze new traffic out of their old content (Digiday UK)
- How to Architect Your Content Strategy (CMI)
- How to Stop Overthinking Your Content and Start Writing What Your Customers Love (CMI)
- Content Strategy vs Content Marketing (Greenlane)
- 3 brilliant examples of content marketing in the age of cognitive (THINK Marketing)
UX/design
- Effective and Efficient: Conducting UX and Design Reviews (UXPA Magazine)
- 5 psychology rules every UX designer must know (WebdesignerDepot)
- Information architecture: still vital to digital design (Gerry McGovern)
- A Useful Guide to Content Types, Part 2 (UX Booth)
Tech comm
- Are we making instructions too easy to read? (Cambridge Consultants)
- Writing Mobile Help: How Does It Differ from Desktop? (Tech Comm HQ)
- Made in the USA: The Impact of the New Administration on Technical Communication (Content Rules)
Recruitment and professional development
Augmented reality
- AR rocks, as climbing gyms become real-life video games (CNET)
- Bringing Pokémon Go one step closer to Dynamic Augmented Reality (Maths Works)
- How Will Virtual Reality Change The Healthcare Industry? (Forbes)
Artificial intelligence
- How does machine learning work? (IBM)
- This is How Artificial Intelligence will Influence the Human Mind (OpenMind)
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CJ Walker
