As content strategists we deal with three different subjects: structures, technologies, and mostly: people. Whether them being our clients or the people we work with day to day. And to help them and solve their problems, we need to understand them better by doing research. Here we normally choose between… Read More »The Power of Qualitative Research
Have you ever played the game “quartet”? Where you had to collect cards of a sort and compare different attributes of cars, animals or action figures in order to trump your opponent to win? There you go, that’s the perfect example for structured content right there. Let’s see how you… Read More »How Structuring Your Content Saves You Lots of Time
As a content strategist it is vital to talk to people and find out about their ideas, needs and expectations – or to bring order into the chaos. One of the possibilities to do so, is in workshops. Actually, there is no way around them. From message architecture or user… Read More »How to hold a workshop
Designing for attention is important because it ensures that the most important information or elements in a design are easily noticeable and understood by the user. This can increase usability and engagement, and help the user achieve their goals more efficiently. In today’s digital age, users are often overwhelmed with… Read More »Designing Content for Attention
AI-generated content is coming – faster, better, stronger than expected. At the time of writing this blog post, it includes computer generated texts and images at a very high quality level already. And it is just a question of time passing by, before it also creates convincing video, audio, other… Read More »Faster, cheaper, better. AI-generated content is coming
After defining your brand’s message architecture and conducting a content inventory, you’ve already come a long way. Bear with me a little longer, we are going to piece everything together with a content audit. This is my favorite part: assessing your content’s quality. The best starting point for your content… Read More »Content audits: assessing your content’s quality
Every new piece of content starts with a blank page and a rough idea what to write about. To me, this blank page can be scary, making me think that I’ll never get anything good to paper. I think I’ve proven wrong on this assumption though, but I still continue… Read More »How I Write My Blog Posts and What You Can Learn From That
By designers I mean my own, isolated perspective. And also, this is only about blog posts and not like poetry or something more advanced or lyrical. So now that I set your expectations with this honest subline, let us begin. About necessary prerequisites Before the first written word, I need… Read More »How designers write
Have you ever heard from AI-generated images? No? Even if you did not, this designer here is betting on you already seeing them out there – mostly on social media. And they got so good so fast, that you would not have identified them as being made by an algorithm,… Read More »Faking the unreal
The term “strategic communication” is one that scholars define in different ways. This essay is supposed to show some main research factors in this field as discussed by Zerfass et al.: the main task of strategic communication, the difference between strategic and non-strategic communication and the value of it. Adding… Read More »Understanding Strategic Communication and its Importance