The Content Wild Child: Your New PR Nightmare

Matthew Geraghty October 6, 2009

The Breakdown: Our own Rachel Lovinger gave a presentation at the MIMA Summit about what can happen when you don’t have a clearly defined content strategy. She showed several examples of common problems, and talked about content best practices that could have helped avoid these problems. The Summit will be posting video of all the presentations soon (including great keynote talks by Jackie Huba and Seth Godin), but for now, explore Rachel’s slides above.

2 Responses

J. Kelleher says:

October 6, 2009 at 2:47 pm

Looks great. Looking forward to hearing this in a Friday AM UX Meet.
JK
Elena Melendy says:

October 14, 2009 at 2:22 pm

Rachel, it’s utterly superb. And I’m not just saying that because you gave me an entire slide. Though I am so flattered I can hardly stand myself.

Elena

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