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New Series: Organizing Content [Organizing Content 1]

by Tom Johnson on May 17, 2010 • 0 Comments
categories: findability • technical-writing

  1. 1.0 → New Series: Organizing Content [Organizing Content 1]
  2. 1.2 Introducing Project Swordfish [Organizing Content 2]
  3. 1.3 Things Fall Apart, The Centre Cannot Hold [Organizing Content 3]
  4. 1.4 Imposing Order Versus Observing Order [Organizing Content 4]
  5. 1.5 Topic-Based, Hierarchical Navigation [Organizing Content 5]
  6. 1.55 25 Facets for Navigation [Organizing Content 5]
  7. 1.6 Faceted Classification, Faceted Search [Organizing Content 6]
  8. 1.7 Implementing Faceted Classification/Search with a Help Authoring Tool [Organizing Content 7]
  9. 1.8 Second-Level Faceted Navigation [Organizing Content 8]
  10. 1.9 Browse Versus Search: Stumbling into the Unknown Unknown [Organizing Content 9]
  11. 2.0 Figuring Out Search Algorithms [Organizing Content 10]
  12. 2.1 Search Engine Optimizing Your Help Content for Google [Organizing Content 11]
  13. 2.2 From Help Authoring Tools to Web Tools, Especially Wikis [Organizing Content 12]
  14. 2.3 Using Mediawiki Templates to Organize Content [Organizing Content 13]
  15. 2.4 The Semantic Web and Content Findability: Interview with Patrick Warren [Organizing Content 14]
  16. 2.5 Faulty Assumptions About the Scope of Help Content? [Organizing Content 15]
  17. 2.6 Can Blogs Work as a Web Platform for Help? [Organizing Content 16]
  18. 2.7 Organizing Content as Story [Organizing Content #17]
  19. 2.8 Separating Basic from Advanced Topics: How Twitter Organizes Their Help [Organizing Content #18]
  20. 2.9 Emergence [Organizing Content #19]
  21. 3.0 Relying on the Wisdom of the Crowds with Help Authoring [Organizing Content #20]
  22. 3.1 Principles for Organizing Print Material [Organizing Content #21]
  23. 3.2 The Technical Writer as an Outsider: How Ambitious Are You? [Organizing Content #22]
  24. 3.3 The Interface Is Text [Organizing Content #23]
  25. 3.4 Best Practices for Writing Interface Text [Organizing Content #24]
  26. 3.5 Organizing for Learnability [Organizing Content #25]
  27. 3.6 Why Learning Software Is So Hard, and Organizing Content into Levels [Organizing Content #26]
  28. 3.7 Is Rhetoric Relevant? Considering the "Message in Context" [Organizing Content #27]
  29. 3.8 Organizing Content for Constructivist Learning [Organizing Content #28]
  30. 3.9 Eight Defining Questions that Shape Content Organization [Organizing Content #29]
  31. 4.0 Why Help Content Fails and #contentstrategy

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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