FontoXML presentation at Congility 2014: New web paradigms for authoring

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Also authoring is going online, with web-based XML editors entering the market. While the initial step towards web-based working is often triggered by a need for cost-efficiency, a full transformation to web-based authoring is likely to revolutionize authoring more fundamentally. Typical online practices such as User Analytics, A/B testing, Responsive Design, Gamification, Mobile, Personalization and Community Management may be more relevant for authoring than seen at first sight. User friendliness has the potential to involve many new stakeholders to authoring and eventually blur the border between authors and readers. Direct feedback on content-use and tools that pro-actively assist authors while writing will help to increase content quality from the source. Benedictus will look at authoring from a web perspective and discuss ‘new combinations’ with the potential to innovate authoring in the years ahead. Altogether he expects that the relationship between producers and consumers of specialized content will develop to a circular one: closing the loop.

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Bringing more ‘web’ to authoring

Jan Benedictus

FontoXML – web based editor

How to engage SMEs?

Web based authoring is not just authoring done online

Understanding web paradigms to engage authors and develop the right tools

My perspective: the web

Online means circular (or ‘agile’)

Concept

Design

BuildMaintain

Measure

Measure, adapt and be agile

Online behaviour

What drives online users?

Recognition Certainty

Easiness Profit

Is that relevant for SMEs?

Write Review Store Publish

A circular process

Write

Review

Store

Publish

Interaction , analytics

SMEs are part of their community

Community

SMEs

Editors

IA’s

Engage, not force

What engages experts?

Recognition Certainty

Easiness Profit

What engages experts?

Recognition Certainty

Easiness Profit

Recognition

•My content is being used

•My expertise is recognized and appreciated

•People ask me things..

Recognition - example

• Authors-only portal• Discussion / responses

• Author profile• Feedback on usage• “Best article”

Direct feedback and support

Use

Users comments

Content quality

Ranking vs other authors

From engagement to writing

Recognition Certainty

Easiness Profit

Design is how it works

• SME’s are busy people, writing is a sideline or a task which is not always liked

• The hurdle to contribute must be minimal

Easy to use is essential, but not enoughTools must be nice to use (Identity)

Tool-identity

Easy to use

Don t make me Think: Steve Krug, 2005

Nice to use

Designing for emotion : Aaron Walter, 2011

Optimising the tool

• Easy and assuring

• No learning curve

• Identity iscompelling

• Adapt UI based on feedback

Expert engagement

• The web-paradigm : users cannot be forced

• A ‘good’ tool is not enough, understand true motivators

• Close the loop: give recognition

• Tools-identity, specific for experts

• Measure and adapt (‘Tweak’), be agile

Blurring borders..Communit

y

SME’s

Editors

IA’s

THANK YOU

FontoXML is based on the lessons from15 years online publishing. It helps authors to write and enrich structured en semantically rich content. It puts authors first, and aims to be more than just an ‘easy to use’ tool.

We believe that authors cannot be forced to work with an online tool, but rather need to be ‘seduced’ to do so. “Closing the loop” implies giving automated and manual feedback to authors while they are writing content.

FontoXML can be integrated in any web based workflowtool, suits any schema and CMS

Mail team@fontoxml.com for more info or a demo

@JanBenedictus

@FontoXML

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