New Series: Organizing Content [Organizing Content 1]

by Tom Johnson on May 17, 2010 •
categories: findability • technical-writing

I'm starting a new series on organizing content. I'm not sure how many parts there will be in this series. Writing essays in a serial format is an experiment I'm exploring. Basically this approach to writing follows the agile model. I write a bit, get some feedback, write some more, get feedback, and keep going. The feedback along the way shapes the direction I'm heading. Also, with each serial post, I hope to take the issue a little deeper.

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Findability / organizing content

• • New Series: Organizing Content
  • Introducing Project Swordfish
  • Things Fall Apart, The Centre Cannot Hold
  • Imposing Order Versus Observing Order
  • Topic-Based, Hierarchical Navigation
  • 25 Facets for Navigation
  • Faceted Classification, Faceted Search
  • Implementing Faceted Classification/Search with a Help Authoring Tool
  • Second-Level Faceted Navigation
  • Browse Versus Search: Stumbling into the Unknown Unknown
  • 2.0 Figuring Out Search Algorithms
  • Search Engine Optimizing Your Help Content for Google [Organizing Content
  • From Help Authoring Tools to Web Tools, Especially Wikis
  • Using Mediawiki Templates to Organize Content
  • The Semantic Web and Content Findability: Interview with Patrick Warren
  • Faulty Assumptions About the Scope of Help Content? [Organizing Content
  • Can Blogs Work as a Web Platform for Help?
  • Organizing Content as Story
  • Separating Basic from Advanced Topics: How Twitter Organizes Their Help
  • Emergence
  • Relying on the Wisdom of the Crowds with Help Authoring
  • Principles for Organizing Print Material
  • The Technical Writer as an Outsider: How Ambitious Are You?
  • The Interface Is Text
  • Best Practices for Writing Interface Text
  • Organizing for Learnability
  • Why Learning Software Is So Hard, and Organizing Content into Levels
  • Is Rhetoric Relevant? Considering the "Message in Context"
  • Organizing Content for Constructivist Learning
  • Eight Defining Questions that Shape Content Organization
  • Why Help Content Fails and #contentstrategy
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