How to design, and extend, great content experience: A culinary, somewhat cautionary, tale Water, Lands and Ecosystems-ILRI Blogging Workshop ILRI Nairobi 21 March 2014 Susan MacMillan ILRI Public Awareness
Prepare 6 ingredients Branding Appetizing Digestible Nourishing Mobile Lasting
Branding
Make it BRANDED Colour Pictures Style guide Blog guidelines Categories/tags Workflows
Appetizing
Make it APPETIZING Pretty setting Tasty nibbles Pithy headlines Arresting pictures Engaging captions Punchy quotes ‘Display text’ Spot colour
Digestible
Make it DIGESTIBLE Arresting facts Memorable quotes Trenchant summaries Embedded videos Witty remarks (Parenthetical remarks) Symmetries / Poetries Jargon/acronym free
Nourishing
Make it NOURISHING Tell stories State facts Read others Link others Quote others Credit others Make it personal Make it new End it well
Mobile
Make it MOBILE iPads / Tablets iPhones Smart phones Dumb phones Websites Radio / TV
Lasting
Make it LASTING Twitter Tumblr LinkedIn Facebook Google+ Website Enews Storify RebelMouse
Acknowledgments ILRI KMIS / Angela Nekessa, Ben Hack ILRI bloggers / Paul Karaimu CGIAR, WLE / Abby Waldorf
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