The Web Project Guide: Model Your Content | Write for People and Machines
October 10, 2019
Writing about writing (and also writing about the structure of content) in this month’s chapter launches.
Author: Corey Vilhauer
The Web Project Guide: Develop a Strategy for Your Content | Organize Your Content
September 6, 2019
It’s time to get strategic and organized with the latest release. These chapters dive into developing a strategy for your content and creating a system for keeping it organized.
The Web Project Guide: Know Your Content | Gather Insight From Your Metrics
August 6, 2019
Where last month we talked about knowing our people and their motivations, this month our planned chapter releases are focused on knowing your content and its connections to your users. That’s right, it’s time to talk content inventories and analytics.
The Web Project Guide: Identify Your Audiences | Identify Outcomes and Expectations
July 2, 2019
Blend likes to begin all of our web projects – especially those that include strategy, design, or technical planning – with our “Audiences and Outcomes” workshop, which is simply an audience and expectation-focused discovery workshop that nails down the who and what of a site. This month’s chapter release focuses on those two directions: your audiences, and your outcomes/expectations.
The Web Project Guide: Form Your Team | Create a Project Plan
June 4, 2019
Two more chapters are going up, and this time we focus on better understanding who your web team is – who is going to help make these decisions for the larger project – and what that plan will look like as your ideas take shape.
The Web Project Guide: Know the Scope of the Project | Set Your Expectations
May 7, 2019
The Web Project Guide is here! To start, read our Introduction. From there, you can check out the first two chapters, which are dedicated to those very early and formative stages at the start of a web project.
Introducing: The Web Project Guide
April 2, 2019
Things will be a little slow on Eating Elephant over the next few months, as we (Deane and I) are embarking on a new writing project: The Web Project Guide.
Podcast Feature: Design By Committee
November 27, 2018
I was a guest on the Design By Committee podcast with Matt Grocki and Justin Davis, where we talked about editorial accessibility, content modeling for content management systems, and picklebacks.
A Web Accessibility Primer and The Accessible Editor
March 14, 2018
Blend has formally documented and standardized our accessibility practice, which has led to two worthwhile content updates: an accessibility primer for clients and those new to the concept, and a talk/workshop that’s about to hit the road.
Editorial Triggers: A GatherContent Advent Calendar Video
December 18, 2017
This year, I was asked to help participate with GatherContent’s Advent Calendar video series. My topic – editorial triggers – is small, but important, in that it affects both one-off and non-frequent content workflows while saving us the trouble of that “OMG NEED TO GET THIS DONE NOW” stress. Thanks to GatherContent for including me […]