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What are the differences between technologists and communication specialists when they are talking about content. A presentation I gave at our Content Room on February, 21 2013 at Cypres (Content Room).
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What is (the problem with)
content?
The Content Room — 21.02.2013
Pieter Vereertbrugghen Cypres Content to connect
CYPRES — The Content Room — 21.02.2013
Welcome to
CYPRES — The Content Room — 21.02.2013
The phrase ‘The Content Room’ consists of two nouns: Content and Room.
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The ROOM is our open competence center and creative laboratory,
in which we study and test (new) ways to create, use and distribute content.
The room looks like this:
Cypres — The Content Room — 21.02.2013
Cypres — The Content Room — 21.02.2013
The other noun is ‘content’. Apparently, content is important nowadays.
Content strategy, content marketing, chief content officer,
content governance, content management, …: it’s content all over.
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Content is even in the baseline of our company:
Content to Connect
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Content For people in marketing and comms.
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People in marketing and communications look like this:
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Meaningful information in a specific context
It is the stuff that creates brand experience and triggers engagement of your audience.
It can look like this:
Content=
For people in marketing and communications:
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CYPRES — The Content Room — 21.02.2013
For technical people Content
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Technical people look like this:
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Unstructured information
Content=
For technical people
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• one big chunk • ink on paper or dots on a screen. For technologists structured information looks like this:
For technologists a catalogue is just
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Information becomes structured when its components are entered into separate fields of a database
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CYPRES — The Content Room — 21.02.2013
When they think of structuring information, they think of controlling it by pulling it apart into
pieces that can be stored into internal systems.
Technologists
When they think of structuring information, they think of bringing things together on a page, to make it appealing to external audiences
in real world user contexts.
Marketing & comms
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They are talking about • fields, categories, … to
structure the content into usable components.
• They are interviewing us to see what kind of fields/containers they need to produce so the content can be made usable, visible on different channels, can be searchable,…
Technologists They are talking about • the content of components,
the content of the categories, the content of the fields, …
• the different kind of content they want on the site, articles, videos,…
• target audiences, buying cycles, messages, … ,
Marketing & comms
FASCINATING, ISN’T IT
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Content is information relevant to the context of your customers, employees and other
stakeholders.
INFORMATION
in a system
DATA
in a user context
CONTENT
Content is information relevant to the context of your customers, employees and other
stakeholders.
INFORMATION
in a system
DATA
in a user context
CONTENT
CYPRES — The Content Room — 21.02.2013
These two perspectives are equally important, and
complementary.
Content is information relevant to the context of your customers, employees and other
stakeholders.
INFORMATION
in a system
DATA
in a user context
CONTENT
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> The automation, quality checks, and analytics that the systems of the technologists offer.
Why? To manage multiple content channels efficiently.
> The insights of communication specialists, marketers
and business analysts.
Why? To deliver audience-centric content in the real world, to improve brand experience, and to encourage
engagement. They know best what, how, where and when to present content to customers.
Your company needs
Content is information relevant to the context of your customers, employees and other
stakeholders.
INFORMATION
in a system
DATA
in a user context
CONTENT
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If your company wants to be successful in content marketing, you should bring the two perspectives
together.
We see that also as one of the tasks for content strategists:
to help companies bridging these two perspectives.
Content to connect is also about creating bridges.
Your company success
Thank you
Cypres organizes, creates and manages cross-media content for your customers, employees and all your other stakeholders. Our baseline? “Content to connect”, because we firmly believe that you create and strengthen relationships with your audience by providing information they find highly valuable. Discover how we create strong content for you and your stakeholders.
Cypres invites you to discover The Content Room, our open competence center and creative laboratory, in which we study and test new ways to create, use and distribute content. Specialists from Belgium and abroad come regularly to discuss everything related to content and content publishing. This includes such topics as content strategy and material, content governance, social content and content co-creation.
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