When Technical Communications Meets Marcom - Rahela Bailie

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When TechComm Met Marcom

Why technical content is marketing content

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Persuasive Content

Fluffy

Overstated

Biased

Instructive Content

Dry

Boring

Complicated

Content Bake-off

Two solitudes

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Persuasive Content

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Charismatic … seriously?

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Instructive Content

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And this helps me … how?

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Rethinking the Paradigm

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What makes a chocolate-and-peanut-butter moment?

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Rethinking the

roles of content

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Create or import copy

Add rich media

Quality check

Automated publishing

Distribution (channels)

Content as commodity controlled as a supply chain

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Content coordinated with the product lifecycle

Introduction

Decline

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Content treated as a product with its own lifecycle

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Content coordinated with the customer lifecycle

Explore options

Consider

Commit to a solution

Compare solutionsMake

selection

Considerfor future

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How people really do it: research, register, shop, seek, share, etc

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Omnichannel experience

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Omnichannel experience (image from praticalecommerce.com)

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Coordinating content within an omnichannel experience

Explore options

Consider

Commit to a solution

Compare solutions

Introduction

Decline

Make selection

Considerfor future

Product or service lifecycle

Customer lifecycle

Content lifecycle

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Rethinking our roles

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Silos of content reflect silos of roles

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Content Maturity Modelhttp://intentionaldesign.ca/2011/11/14/time-for-a-maturity-model-for-content-strategy/

Digital Maturity Modelhttp://www.digitalstrategyconference.com/blog/tag/digital-maturity/

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