CS Forum 2011
Friday 23 September 2011 at 9:06 Thanks to Jonathan Kahn, Colleen Jones, Erin Kissane, Karen McGrane, Destry Wion, and everyone else at the Content Strategy Forum 2011 (sorry if I missed you out, a long list of names would be terribly dull), for providing me with such rich inspiration and a huge reading list to munch through with my knowledge hungry eyes. I’m having a lot of fun reading the books and finding that not only am I inspired to create but I’m also seeing the world from a different viewpoint. I now find myself actively looking for the message and the devices in everything I see, and I’ve started to think that I need a strategy not only for creating content but also for consuming it. There’s too much out there that is irrelevant and yet is designed to steal my attention. My online reading list is still in disarray between RSS, Twitter, blogs, PDFs, and so on. My offline ebook list is a lot more sane...
- Erin Kissane; Elements of Content Strategy
- Steven Levitt; Freakonomics (this was surprisingly relevant)
- Colleen Jones; Clout: the Art and Science of Influential Web Content
- Jesse James Garrett; Elements of User Experience
So far, I’ve read the first two and I’m halfway through the third. I spend relatively very little time reading so I have to choose carefully, hence the short list. I’ve also spotted that a few of the photos I took at CS Forum 2011 have been used online elsewhere (that’s why I love Creative Commons licensing), which led me to these great resources on content strategy...
- Content Strategy Forum 2011 links round-up on firehead.net
- Lauren Pope at posterous.com
- CS Forum 2011 on storify.com
- Together London on Vimeo has videos from the CS Forum 2011
Some other related links that some might find useful...
Again, thanks to the CS Forum for giving me interesting ideas and expanded my horizons. Do you have any suggestions for my reading list?
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