Archive for 'Examples'
A Case Study in Testing Content

A Case Study in Testing Content

Posted April 11th, 2010 | By Colleen | Categories: Content Strategy, Examples, Persuasion and Influence, Research, Usability | No Comments

How do you find out whether your content works for people? Test it with them. Check out this case study of testing content for a [...]

Content Analysis: From Inventory to Insight

Content Analysis: From Inventory to Insight

Posted March 24th, 2010 | By Colleen | Categories: Audit and Analysis, Content Strategy, Examples, Persuasion and Influence, Research | 2 Comments

This week, I had the pleasure of speaking at Content Strategy New England about content analysis—the tough but critical first step in a [...]

Know Your Content Before You Test It

Know Your Content Before You Test It

Posted February 24th, 2010 | By Colleen | Categories: Content Strategy, Examples, Research | 2 Comments

Read (or watch or listen to) your content before you let users test it. You might think, “Isn’t that obvious?” Probably. But when we’re busy, [...]

Remember References

Remember References

Posted January 14th, 2010 | By Colleen | Categories: Content Strategy, Examples, Marketing, Persuasion and Influence, Research | 5 Comments

References. They’re not just something your 5th grade teacher required in your report about snails. References show respect of other people’s intellectual property. And, in [...]

The Temptation of Templates

The Temptation of Templates

Posted September 13th, 2009 | By Colleen | Categories: Content Strategy, Examples, Usability | 1 Comment

I love templates. At their best, they add structure and pattern to make an interactive experience easy to use and efficient to design. But, sometimes, [...]

Got Winning Content?

Got Winning Content?

Posted July 17th, 2008 | By Colleen | Categories: Content Strategy, Examples, Persuasion and Influence, Usability | 1 Comment

Gotvmail.com is a site with wonderful examples of content that is both usable and persuasive–or what I call winning. The site makes its voicemail [...]