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Carrie Hane Dennison

Making Content Flexible With Content Strategy

At the recent UXCamp DC, two content-related sessions were held. I led the one on fitting content strategy into everything. But the the session on content modeling was quite interesting. We talked about how content management systems can be set up...

Why Good Content Makes Development Harder
Here at Balance, content strategists are involved in every aspect of a project. You’d think our job was over after we laid out what will be on the site and wrote the content. But that is just the beginning of the work. We stick around and make...

SXSW 2012 – Collaboration & Content Strategy
WARNING: Shameless self-promotion follows. SXSW Interactive Festival is a conference that brings together the best minds of the interactive world – websites, apps, video games, digital projects, and start up ideas. You may be more familiar...

Collaboration at CapitalCamp

On July 22, Balance Interactive’s web development, creative, and content and usability directors presented Design, Development and Content Working Together Harmoniously at CaptialCamp. CapitalCamp is the Washington, DC DrupalCamp - a...

Putting it All Together
Being in the web content field, I notice when things work and don’t work more than most people. I am also extremely loyal to companies or organizations that are nice to me. It’s good to feel needed and wanted. So last week when I got a...

Content Strategy at the IA Summit
I sit here writing this less than 24 hours since arriving home from the 2011 IA Summit, my first. I attended this conference after watching it from afar for 2 years, since it included a pre-conference Content Strategy Consortium. While I have been...

Toward Persuasive Content
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: “Your website visitors come to your site to do something – make it easy for them to do it.” You could say it’s my mantra. Above all else, I consider myself a...

Come See Balance at ASAE’s Technology Conference
On December 14 & 15 ASAE is holding its Technology Conference & Expo at the Walter E Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC - and Balance Interactive will be there. (At least that is the plan. With luck there won’t be another...

Happy Usability Day!
You probably take for granted all the things that you use easily every day. On November 11, 2010, thank a usability professional – it’s World Usability Day. This year’s theme is Communication. While the usability field on the web...

Eat Lunch, Talk Content
Sometimes someone has a great idea and can make something of it. But more often than not, great things come from several people putting their minds together and helping each other. That is the idea behind Balance Interactive’s new brown-bag...

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