Content Strategist

What it is

  • A Windows application.
  • A tool for inventorying (performing quantitative analysis) of your content.
  • A tool for auditing (performing qualitative analysis) of your content.
  • A tool for "doing" content strategy per department (expressed as "clients").
  • Built around how I practice content inventories and audits.

What might be the future

  • Building an information architecture with back ties to the content inventory.
  • A tool you can use to generate a 'content strategy guide' for clients including page tables (see Kristina Halvorson's book).
  • Easier to use/understand.

What it isn't

  • An introduction to content strategy. If you need that, see Kristina Halvorson's Content Strategy for the Web or Richard Sheffield's Web Content Strategist's Bible.
  • A Mac application (yet).
  • A full CRM app. For real. If you need CRM, look elsewhere.
  • Limited to web pages: you have content outside of your website. You need to inventory and audit it.
  • A spreadsheet. You can get a content inventory spreadsheet from Adaptive Path or a zillion other places.
  • Pretty. I'm focused on solving a problem first, making it pretty second.
  • Perfect. Chances are really good you could lose data.