The Myth of the Perfect Methodology: Confab 2012 – Credits and Notes

I had the wonderful opportunity to speak at Confab 2012. And now, for your benefit, I bring the entire thing to YOU! Below you’ll find the slideshow, notes and reference links, and a list of the images I used for the presentation.

The slideshow:

The links and articles and such:

• “Thoughts on ‘Defining the Damn Thing'” – Eating Elephant
• “Content Strategy Deliverables: What Goes In…” – Shelly Bowen/Pybop
• New Liberal Arts (2009)
• Steal Like An Artist – Austin Kleon
• Slide deck for “Audit, Plan, Build, Grow: A Methodology for Content Strategy” – Jeffrey MacIntyre
• Fugazi’s “Five Corporations” (YouTube Video)
• Online and On Mission – C. David Gammel
• “Audiences, Outcomes, and Determining User Needs” – A List Apart
• Video of “Content Strategy Methodology: A DIY Project” – Melissa Rach
• “Being Intentional” – Nicole Jones/Swell Content

The content strategy guides-that-are-not-methodologies:

• Content Strategy for the Web, Second Edition – Kristina Halvorson/Melissa Rach
• Content Strategy at Work – Margot Bloomstein
• Managing Enterprise Content: A Unified Content Strategy – Ann Rockley/Charles Cooper
• The Web Content Strategist’s Bible – Richard Sheffield
• The Elements of Content Strategy – Erin Kissane
• Clout: The Art and Science of Influential Web Content – Colleen Jones

The Flickr images used via Creative Commons:

• “Lucky Strike Vintage Advertising” by Fugue
• “Red and blue substances in transparent test tubes” by Horia Varlan
• “Snowflake” by J. Star
• “Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword artwork” by Colony of Gamers
• “Kotobukiya Rockman” by GogDog
• “Close-up of an opened dictionary” by zehfernando
• “Stamp of the Ickwell Bury Library” by kladcat
• “Infinity – 008/365” by Odd Bod
• “Steal Like an Artist” by Austin Kleon
• “Robber” by richt-what
• “Fugazi” by Sumlin
• “Physics Homework” by nikitagubanov
• “D2A7732soapbox.jpg” by swh
• “London Underground” by Qsimple
• “26/366 Discrete Mathematical Structures” by samcrockett