Here’s our May roundup of industry insight, professional development and training articles, and useful links from the field of digital communications.
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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.
Tech comm
- Top 10 signs that your documentation is craptacular, 2017 edition (Scriptorium)
- The Age of Accountability – Unifying Marketing and Technical Content with Adobe Experience Manager (Adobe Events)
UX/design
- UX Metrics: Identify Trackable Footprints and Avoid the Woozles (Jared Spool, Medium)
- How to Balance Information Density in Web Design (Web Designer Depot)
Content – creation, strategy, sharing
- A Key to Content Strategy Success: Think Like a Business Person (Content Science Review)
- How to Define a Workflow That Keeps Content Production On Track (CMI)
- Snapchat vs. Instagram vs. Facebook Stories (Social Media Today)
- Why Plain Language Should Be In Your Content Strategy (It Starts With Content)
Metadata and taxonomies
- 2.1 Why Taxonomies tutorial (Pool Party)
- Infographic: What cost savings can be achieved through Terminology Management (SDL)
Augmented reality
Productivity/workplaces
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CJ Walker
