last GWG presentations: follow up

[Alex Faundez]

Hi all,

first of all, a big thanks to both presenters, Lise and Chris.

Lise's presentation will be available on SlideShare soon. I will forward the link as soon as it's been posted.

Feel free to send an e-mail to our presenters for further questions about their presentations (they are are copied to this e-mail).

As discussed, below is a list of content strategy-related resources. There's a lot happening online, especially on Google groups and Twitter. Also, don't hesitate to follow Lise on Twitter (@lisejanody).

Happy weekend.

Books:
- Content Strategy for the Web (Kristina Halvorson & Melissa Rach, 2nd edition; http://contentstrategy.com/ )
- Lisa Welchman's forthcoming book on digital governance: Managing Chaos ( https://rosenfeldmedia.com/experts/lisa-welchman/ ).
- Killer Web Content (Gerry McGovern  http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/books/killer-web-content See also the Stranger's Long Neck)
- Content Strategy at Work (Margot Bloomstein http://appropriateinc.com/book/ )
- Content Strategy for Mobile (Karen McGrane http://www.abookapart.com/products/content-strategy-for-mobile )
- The Elements of Content Strategy (Erin Kissane http://www.abookapart.com/products/the-elements-of-content-strategy )
- Content Everywhere: Strategy and Structure for Future-Ready Content ( Sara Wachter-Boettcher http://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/content-everywhere/ )
- The Web Content Strategist's Bible: The Complete Guide To A New And Lucrative Career For Writers Of All Kinds (Richard Sheffield)
- The Website Manager's Handbook (Shane Diffily). Rather old bok (2006), but there's an interesting chapter on website governance.
- Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works (Janice (Ginny) Redish)

Most of these authors have blogs and a Twitter feed. Also, most books are available as hard-copy or e-book, in various e-commerce sites.


Online resources:
- The Discipline of Content Strategy by Kristina Halvorson http://alistapart.com/article/thedisciplineofcontentstrategy
- ALA articles on CS: http://alistapart.com/topic/content-strategy
- Karen McGrane's CS Forum 2011 keynote: the way forward: what's next for content strategy ( http://vimeo.com/29050868 ). This is a good therapy session.
- CS Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/contentstrategy
- CS Europe Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/content-strategy-europe
- CS group on LinkedIn (just search for it in LinkedIn). Another CS-related group on LinkedIn is called Content Strategy Bitesize.
- Lisa Welchman's blog: http://www.welchmanpierpoint.com/blog (by the way, her company was aquired by ActiveStandards, the content tool presented by Chris yesterday...)
- J Boye's list of 10 European content strategists to watch. Follow these people on Twitter!
http://jboye.com/blogpost/10-european-content-strategists-to-watch/
- contentstrategy hashtag on Twitter: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ContentStrategy&src=hash
- Lise on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lisejanody . Feel free to follow her and say hi!
- I also publish an online newsfeed on paper.li: http://paper.li/faundez_alex/contentstrategy Lots of interesting CS topics.
- CJ Walker has an interesting blog post on a CS starter kit at http://firehead.net/content-strategy-starter-kit/ (CJ is a member of the GWG mailing list and specializes in CS-related recruitement)
- Richard Ingram's presentation on how people end up in the CS field: http://www.richardingram.co.uk/2011/10/presentation-how-did-we-all-get-here/
- Here's Richard's diagram he mentions in his video (I also mentioned it yesterday): http://www.visualizing.org/full-screen/32221


Conferences and events:
- Content Strategy Forum 2014: the next forum takes place in Frankfurt on 1-3 July. There's usually main events, smaller-size seminars and a workshop track. (http://www.csforum2014.com/ )
- Confab Barcelona. This series of events include now a European chapter (it all started in the US). Organized by BrainTraffic, K. Halvorson's CS consultancy. http://confabevents.com/events/europe    
- I saw there's a Confab for NonProfits, but it's taking place in Chicago... http://confabevents.com/events/for-nonprofits/
- CS Paris Meetup (Lise's group in Paris) http://www.meetup.com/Content-Strategy-Paris/
- CS Geneva Meetup (I'm running it, but haven't been very active in organizing events lately...) http://www.meetup.com/Content-Strategy-Geneva/

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Alex Faundez
Content strategist and online communications specialist
faunde...@gmail.com // http://about.me/faundez_alex

Organizer of Geneva Content Strategy Meetup

alexandr...@unctad.org // http://www.unctad.org/