Published by New Riders (June 6, 2015) © 2015
Meghan Casey
In this essential guide, Meghan Casey outlines a step-by-step approach for doing content strategy, from planning and creating your content to delivering and managing it. Armed with this book, you can confidently tackle difficult activities like telling your boss or client what’s wrong with their content, getting the budget to do content work, and aligning stakeholders on a common vision. Reading The Content Strategy Toolkit is like having your own personal consulting firm on retainer with a complete array of tools and tips for every challenge you’ll face. In this practical and relevant guide, you’ll learn how to: Identify problems with your content and persuade your bosses it’s worth the time and resources to do it right Make sense of your business environment and understand your audience Get stakeholders aligned on business goals and user needs Set your content strategy and decide how to measure success Create, maintain, and govern on-strategy content You’ll learn to control your content–and not have it control you.
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Section I: Get Budget and Buy-in
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Chapter 1: Identify the Problems and Opportunities
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Chapter 2: Convince Leaders and Get the Resources
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Section II: Set Up for Success
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Chapter 3: Get Stakeholders On-board
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Chapter 4: Set and Align on Project Objectives
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Chapter 5: Run the Project
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Section III: Dig In and Get the Dirt
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Chapter 6: Understand Your Business Environment
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Chapter 7: Learn About Your Audience and Users
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Chapter 8: Get Familiar With Your Content
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Chapter 9: Review How Work Gets Planned and Done
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Chapter 10: Put it all together
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Section IV: Articulate Your Strategy
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Chapter 11: Create a Content Compass
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Chapter 12: Decide How You’ll Measure Success
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Chapter 13: Design Your Content
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Section V: Put Your Strategy Into Action
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Chapter 14: Create On-strategy Content
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Chapter 15: Plan and Maintain Over Time
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Appendix: List of Tools
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Index