- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: New Riders; 1 edition (12 Aug 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0321620062
- ISBN-13: 978-0321620064
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 17.5 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
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If your website content is out of date, off-brand, and out of control, you're missing a huge opportunity to engage, convert, and retain customers online. Redesigning your home page won't help. Investing in a new content management system won't fix it, either. So, where do you start?
Without meaningful content, your website isn't worth much to your key audiences. But creating (and caring for) "meaningful" content is far more complicated than we're often willing to acknowledge. Content Strategy for the Web explains how to create and deliver useful, usable content for your online audiences, when and where they need it most. It also shares content best practices so you can get your next website redesign right, on time and on budget. For the first time, you'll:
Without meaningful content, your website isn't worth much to your key audiences. But creating (and caring for) "meaningful" content is far more complicated than we're often willing to acknowledge. Content Strategy for the Web explains how to create and deliver useful, usable content for your online audiences, when and where they need it most. It also shares content best practices so you can get your next website redesign right, on time and on budget. For the first time, you'll:
- See content strategy (and its business value) explained in plain language
- Find out why so many web projects implode in the content development phase ... and how to avoid the associated, unnecessary costs and delays
- Learn how to audit and analyze your content
- Make smarter, achievable decisions about which content to create and how
- Find out how to maintain consistent, accurate, compelling content over time
- Get solid, practical advice on staffing for content-related roles and responsibilities
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If your website content is out of date, off-brand, and out of control, you're missing a huge opportunity to engage, convert, and retain customers online. Redesigning your home page won't help. Investing in a new content management system won't fix it, either. So, where do you start?
Without meaningful content, your website isn't worth much to your key audiences. But creating (and caring for) "meaningful" content is far more complicated than we're often willing to acknowledge. Content Strategy for the Web explains how to create and deliver useful, usable content for your online audiences, when and where they need it most. It also shares content best practices so you can get your next website redesign right, on time and on budget. For the first time, you'll:
Without meaningful content, your website isn't worth much to your key audiences. But creating (and caring for) "meaningful" content is far more complicated than we're often willing to acknowledge. Content Strategy for the Web explains how to create and deliver useful, usable content for your online audiences, when and where they need it most. It also shares content best practices so you can get your next website redesign right, on time and on budget. For the first time, you'll:
- See content strategy (and its business value) explained in plain language
- Find out why so many web projects implode in the content development phase ... and how to avoid the associated, unnecessary costs and delays
- Learn how to audit and analyze your content
- Make smarter, achievable decisions about which content to create and how
- Find out how to maintain consistent, accurate, compelling content over time
- Get solid, practical advice on staffing for content-related roles and responsibilities
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A number of negative reviews seem to be intent on punishing Kristina Halvorson for not writing the book they wanted to read rather than the book she has actually written. This is not a book about writing copy for the web or for improving your writing technique to make more sales or land more leads. It is a book about content strategy and that is what the author successfully delivers.
Anyone involved in creating business websites knows the struggle associated with specifying, creating, collecting, and updating content. This book sets out a straightforward and practical process for managing that struggle. More than that, it gives you the tools to help convince those involved in the website who are focused primarily on sales or design or databases or usability of the fundamental importance of getting the content right. Not from the point of view of wonderful copy but right in terms of fitting the business objectives.
This book is deceptively simple and the author's style and tone make it a quick and easy read. I suspect that it will reward subsequent readings by triggering greater insights. The chapters on Audit and Workflow are alone probably worth the price of the book.
Sneering at the idea of 'content strategist' as a specialist function is easy. But whatever you call it, there needs to be a role for someone to oversee the content on a site and on the distributed outposts in which it may also appear. Consistency of message and tone, accuracy of data, regularity of output: none of these happen in an organisation by default. This book is a great template for making sure that someone is on top of the work.
Anyone involved in creating business websites knows the struggle associated with specifying, creating, collecting, and updating content. This book sets out a straightforward and practical process for managing that struggle. More than that, it gives you the tools to help convince those involved in the website who are focused primarily on sales or design or databases or usability of the fundamental importance of getting the content right. Not from the point of view of wonderful copy but right in terms of fitting the business objectives.
This book is deceptively simple and the author's style and tone make it a quick and easy read. I suspect that it will reward subsequent readings by triggering greater insights. The chapters on Audit and Workflow are alone probably worth the price of the book.
Sneering at the idea of 'content strategist' as a specialist function is easy. But whatever you call it, there needs to be a role for someone to oversee the content on a site and on the distributed outposts in which it may also appear. Consistency of message and tone, accuracy of data, regularity of output: none of these happen in an organisation by default. This book is a great template for making sure that someone is on top of the work.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
`Content Strategy for the Web' is a much-needed book that helps to push forward the emerging discipline of content strategy.
It gives enough useful information about how to go about defining a content strategy to make it an essential addition to the bookshelf of anyone who works in or around online content. Just as importantly, it presents the case for content strategy articulately so that the book can be used as a tool to persuade decision-makers and colleagues about the importance of content strategy. Kristina Halvorson's writing style is, as you would hope and expect, very readable for what could have been an incredibly dry subject.
The book describes a three-step process for defining a content strategy - audit, analysis, and strategy - and prompts you on the things you need to think about at each stage. What you don't get, and this is a good thing, is a `for dummies' approach that gives you blank templates to fill in or a step-by-step account of how to complete each stage. So, for example, there's a chapter on measurement that tells you a bit about analytics, how to think about what to measure and what to do with your figures, but it doesn't tell you what analytics package to use and how to set up the software.
Content Strategy for the Web's strength is that it focuses on provoking thoughts without being prescriptive on what the outcome of your thought process should be. Every project is different and what you get here is a thorough description of the framework that you can adapt to your own projects.
It gives enough useful information about how to go about defining a content strategy to make it an essential addition to the bookshelf of anyone who works in or around online content. Just as importantly, it presents the case for content strategy articulately so that the book can be used as a tool to persuade decision-makers and colleagues about the importance of content strategy. Kristina Halvorson's writing style is, as you would hope and expect, very readable for what could have been an incredibly dry subject.
The book describes a three-step process for defining a content strategy - audit, analysis, and strategy - and prompts you on the things you need to think about at each stage. What you don't get, and this is a good thing, is a `for dummies' approach that gives you blank templates to fill in or a step-by-step account of how to complete each stage. So, for example, there's a chapter on measurement that tells you a bit about analytics, how to think about what to measure and what to do with your figures, but it doesn't tell you what analytics package to use and how to set up the software.
Content Strategy for the Web's strength is that it focuses on provoking thoughts without being prescriptive on what the outcome of your thought process should be. Every project is different and what you get here is a thorough description of the framework that you can adapt to your own projects.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Kristina Halvorsen's book is not only a great introduction to content strategy, it's invaluable in clearly demonstrating to others why content strategy is so important. I enjoyed the occasionally irreverent tone, peppered with real life experience in dealing with clients and highlighting the pitfalls around this nascent field. It's clearly written, and follows a natural trajectory of content audit through to development. Highly recommended.
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Over promises and delivers very little
For the sake of brevity and to avoid repeating some of the comments of others who have found this book disappointing: they are right. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Bix
Content Strategy for the web
Great read for anyone interested in Content Strategy, written by one of the gurus in the industry. You might not know what Content Strategy is but if you are an e-commerce... Read more
Published 8 months ago by The Hyphenater
A real eye opener to the bits everyone forgets
I found this book an exceptional eye opener to the parts of website design and development which most people always overlook. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Richard Stowey
Promises but never delivers
This book promises a lot but never actually delivers anything hugely useful.
To be fair, it does act as a checklist of things you will need to think about, such as tone... Read more
To be fair, it does act as a checklist of things you will need to think about, such as tone... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Mike
Total disappointment
Save your money. This book goes nowhere. The author spends most of the 160 pages justifying the need for content strategy. Read more
Published on 6 April 2010 by Ruben
Dreadful
I am a busy Web developer who runs three different online businesses, two of which are content-intensive. Read more
Published on 26 Mar 2010 by jakeone
excellent
Excellent advice on content strategy whether starting from scratch or already experienced in this area. Read more
Published on 12 Dec 2009 by ALB
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