Archive for 'Writing'
Chronos vs Kairos: Do We Plan for the Right Concept of Time?

Chronos vs Kairos: Do We Plan for the Right Concept of Time?

Posted February 28th, 2010 | By Colleen | Categories: Content Strategy, Essays, Marketing, Persuasion and Influence, Rhetoric, Writing | 3 Comments

The ancient Greeks got some things very right. Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, reintroduced the Greek muse into our modern concept of creativity during a brilliant TED talk. [...]

TONIGHT – Book Chat with Atlanta Content Strategy

TONIGHT – Book Chat with Atlanta Content Strategy

Posted December 8th, 2009 | By Colleen | Categories: Audit and Analysis, Content Strategy, Happenings, Marketing, Writing | No Comments

Reading Content Strategy for the Web? Itching to talk about it? Well, now you can with Atlanta Content Strategy.
Join us for the last event of 2009, where we’ll eat, drink, [...]

Rhetoric and the New Literacy

Rhetoric and the New Literacy

Posted August 27th, 2009 | By Colleen | Categories: Content Strategy, Rhetoric, Writing | 1 Comment

Finally, someone studies literacy in our information age from a rhetorical perspective!
Andrea Lunsford analyzed thousands of student writing samples as part of the Stanford Study of Writing. Turns out all [...]

Let’s Make Content Shine

Posted August 4th, 2009 | By Colleen | Categories: Marketing, Persuasion and Influence, User / Customer Experience, Writing | No Comments

ASIS&T released its August / September Bulletin, featuring articles inspired by presentations from IA Summit 2009. Honored to contribute The Debut of Influential Content. Here’s an excerpt:
“If we continue to [...]

Design and Content in Customer Service Excellence

Posted July 31st, 2009 | By Colleen | Categories: Content Strategy, Marketing, Writing | 3 Comments

Earlier this week at Customer UNinterrupted, stars in customer service from brands such as Whirlpool, T-Mobile, Zappos, CVS, and much more presented exciting successes and insightful lessons learned. Many of [...]

How Users Read on the Web Redux

Posted June 16th, 2009 | By Colleen | Categories: Content Strategy, Essays, Interaction Design, Persuasion and Influence, Research, Usability, User / Customer Experience, Writing | 2 Comments

They DO.
I feel the need to say what should be the obvious.  Why?  Because recently, while catching up on my Twitter feed, the following statement smacked me like a gauntlet:
It’s [...]

For Persuasive Design, Keep Rhetoric in the Mix

For Persuasive Design, Keep Rhetoric in the Mix

Posted February 25th, 2009 | By Colleen | Categories: Content Strategy, Persuasion and Influence, Psychology, Rhetoric, Writing | 1 Comment

I recently read the book Neuro Web Design: What Makes Them Click. Useful? Yes. Clear explanation of psychology in persuasive websites? Yes. All you need to know about persuasive websites? [...]

Taming the Multichannel Monster

Taming the Multichannel Monster

Posted February 5th, 2009 | By Colleen | Categories: Writing | No Comments

In my recent column for UXmatters, I talk about content and the cross channel, or multichannel, customer experience. Conversing well with customers through the web, email, voice, call centers, stores, [...]

What’s Happening: IA Summit, Books, & More

Posted February 2nd, 2009 | By Colleen | Categories: Content Strategy, Happenings, Persuasion and Influence, User / Customer Experience, Writing | No Comments

Don’t miss these exciting developments in the content world:

IA Summit 2009 in Memphis TN

I’m going to give a general presentation about  influential / persuasive content. Hope to see you there!
The [...]

New Content at User Insight Nixes UX Jargon

New Content at User Insight Nixes UX Jargon

Posted January 25th, 2009 | By Colleen | Categories: Content Strategy, Examples, Usability, User / Customer Experience, Writing | No Comments

Congratulations to User Insight for a gorgeous new website! It’s completely revamped and shows why Forrester ranked User Insight as one of the top user research firms in the U.S.
Explaining [...]