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Content Strategy and Governance

via Nielsen Norman Group

Overview

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Creating and maintaining successful content starts with content strategy. Learn how to craft a sustainable content strategy and management process tailored to your organization and team’s context. Leave this course with the tools and templates to establish a content-first strategy.

Syllabus

What you will learn

Develop an effective content strategy

  • Essential components of content strategy
  • Setting content goals and metrics
  • Measuring and optimizing your strategy
  • Inventories and audits to evaluate and maintain content

Design research to inform content design

  • Content-focused usability testing
  • Structured content for consistency and scalability
  • Content and design collaboration

Establish workflows that work and flow

  • Define and choose a content management model
  • Content operations and AI tools for process efficiency
  • Planning with editorial calendars
  • Training content managers and publishers

Build editorial standards, design systems, and style guides

  • Establish and enforce content standards
  • Ongoing content governance and maintenance

Taught by

Deborah O'Malley, Anna Kaley

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