If it's the people, the atmosphere, and the music that make for a good party, it's user-generated content that helps web 2.0 become a killer online party--and only content strategy ensures it's the party you want. See how instructional copy, role model profiles, and template content set the tone.
Presented by Margot Bloomstein (ISITE Design) at the inaugural Content Strategy Consortium at the IA Summit, March 19, 2009.
5. rocks the party
Content
directions
what to wear
food
invitations
evite or engraved?
college friends or
work friends?
snarky t-shirt
or black tie?
crudités or veggie platter?
gossip & chatter
what she said
7. Chocolate Skittles… peat,
burnt food, cigarette butts”
Taste the rainbow’ clearly
an NAACP plot to encourage
interracial promiscuity”
I love Skittles so much I want
to take it behind the middle
school and get it pregnant.”
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9. How do you throw a good party
and get user-generated content
that’s appropriate for your brand?
10. Answer:
Content strategy must anticipate—
and accommodate and invite—
user-generated content.
(otherwise, expect party crashers)
13. Even if it’s a potluck,
a good host still provides
appetizers.
14. Even if it’s a potluck,
a good host still provides
appetizers.
You’re the hostess with the mostess.
15. Even if it’s a potluck,
a good host still provides
appetizers.
You’re the hostess with the mostess.
publisher
16. Even if it’s a potluck,
a good host still provides
appetizers.
You’re the hostess with the mostess.
publisher*
editor
* Joe Pulizzi/Kristina Halvorson Web Content Strategy OMS presentation
20. Ancillary content helps set the tone
Instructional copy, help, FAQs
Error messaging
Example / default content
Prefilled fields
Structures (top 5 lists, restricted taxonomies)
21. Ancillary content helps set the tone
Instructional copy, help, FAQs
Error messaging
Example / default content
Prefilled fields
Structures (top 5 lists, restricted taxonomies)
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24.
25. Ancillary content helps set the tone
Instructional copy, help, FAQs
Error messaging
Example / default content
Prefilled fields
Structures (top 5 lists, restricted taxonomies)
26.
27. What’s in, and what’s out?
User-generated vs. user-aggregated content
Photograph vs. illustration, headshot vs. full body
Snark vs. polite discourse