Building a Culture of Content -- How to Build Your Team & Craft a Strategy

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Tactics for getting stakeholder and team buy-in around content marketing, tips for keeping momentum, & crafting your content strategy to fit your organization, and structures to support your own Team Content.

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CREATING A CULTURE OF

CONTENTRefresh Boston | @RefreshBoston

August 2013

Katie Del Angel | ISITE Design

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Pizza Making the Case for Content Marketing Building Team Content Creating Your Content Strategy More Pizza?

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CONTENT MARKETING AT ISITE

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WHERE DOES IT COME FROM?

2011 CONTRIBUTORS

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2012 CONTRIBUTORS

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2013 & BEYOND

100% of the company contributes

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MAKING THE CASE

MAKING THE CASEYou may be:

Jack of all trades Learning on the job Constrained resources Charting your own course Need to evangelize

From “The User Experience Team of One”

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CONTENT MARKETING FUNNEL

“Content marketing is an enhancement to your current marketing efforts and you need to understand what gap you’re trying to fill.”

-- Managing Content Marketing

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1. OPPORTUNITY FOR NEW SOLUTIONS

New perspectives Forced growth Practice & refine skills Strengthen foundation for work

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2. ROOM FOR FAILURE

“Until you really fail…you don’t know what’s important and what you can do” – Daniel Romano, Head of UX & Design at Disney Interactive

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3. ANALYTICS (OF COURSE)Share them as they become available:

Site visitors Subscribers Engagement Conversions

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“Content strategy is the practice of planning for the creation, delivery, and governance of useful, useable content.”

BUILDING YOUR TEAM

1. INVITE YOUR TEAM

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2. GET THEM EXCITED

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3. DEMYSTIFY CONTENT

Skill Content Value Bandwidth

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CRAFTING YOUR STRATEGY

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CREATING YOUR STRATEGY

Work where your team works. Encourage & listen to feedback. Don’t stop.

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SUPPORT

FormalOrganizational resourcesClear goals Stakeholder supportTeam input

InformalRelationshipsLanguageReinforcement

KEEPING MOMENTUM

Keep learning – and sharing Celebrate bright spots Suggestions, themes, goals Encourage exploration

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Check out:

Harnessing Content to Build Delightful Experiences

A full-day workshop with Margot Bloomstein & Robert Rose

QUESTIONS?

Making the case Building the team Demystifying content Crafting a strategy Keeping momentum Getting awesome shirts

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