--- title: "New Series: Organizing Content [Organizing Content 1]" date: 2010-05-17 description: "Findability / organizing content 1.0 → New Series: Organizing Content [Organizing Content 1] 1.2 Introducing Project Swordfish..." canonical_url: https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/05/17/new-series-organizing-content-organizing-content-1/index.html --- > For AI agents: a documentation index is available at https://idratherbewriting.com/llms.txt. Markdown versions of all pages are available by appending .md to any page URL. # New Series: Organizing Content [Organizing Content 1] 1. 1.0 → New Series: Organizing Content [Organizing Content 1] 2. [1.2 Introducing Project Swordfish [Organizing Content 2]](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/05/17/introducing-project-swordfish-organizing-content-2/) 3. [1.3 Things Fall Apart, The Centre Cannot Hold [Organizing Content 3]](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/05/17/things-fall-apart-the-centre-cannot-hold-organizing-content-3/) 4. [1.4 Imposing Order Versus Observing Order [Organizing Content 4]](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/05/18/imposing-order-versus-observing-order-organizing-content-4/) 5. [1.5 Topic-Based, Hierarchical Navigation [Organizing Content 5]](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/05/19/topic-based-hierarchical-navigation-organizing-content-5/) 6. [1.55 25 Facets for Navigation [Organizing Content 5]](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/05/17/25-facets-for-navigation-organizing-content-5/) 7. [1.6 Faceted Classification, Faceted Search [Organizing Content 6]](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/05/20/faceted-classification-faceted-search-organizing-content-6/) 8. [1.7 Implementing Faceted Classification/Search with a Help Authoring Tool [Organizing Content 7]](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/05/21/implementing-faceted-classificationsearch-with-a-help-authoring-tool-organizing-content-7/) 9. [1.8 Second-Level Faceted Navigation [Organizing Content 8]](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/05/25/second-level-faceted-navigation-organizing-content-8/) 10. [1.9 Browse Versus Search: Stumbling into the Unknown Unknown [Organizing Content 9]](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/05/26/browse-versus-search-organizing-content-9/) 11. [2.0 Figuring Out Search Algorithms [Organizing Content 10]](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/05/27/figuring-out-search-algorithms-organizing-content-10/) 12. [2.1 Search Engine Optimizing Your Help Content for Google [Organizing Content 11]](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/05/28/search-engine-optimizing-your-help-content-for-google-organizing-content-10/) 13. [2.2 From Help Authoring Tools to Web Tools, Especially Wikis [Organizing Content 12]](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/06/03/from-help-authoring-tools-to-web-tools-especially-wikis-organizing-content-12/) 14. [2.3 Using Mediawiki Templates to Organize Content [Organizing Content 13]](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/06/09/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]](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/06/10/the-semantic-web-and-content-findability-interview-with-patrick-warrant-organizing-content-14/) 16. [2.5 Faulty Assumptions About the Scope of Help Content? [Organizing Content 15]](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/06/11/faulty-assumptions-about-the-scope-of-help-content-organizing-content-1/) 17. [2.6 Can Blogs Work as a Web Platform for Help? [Organizing Content 16]](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/06/23/can-blogs-work-as-a-web-platform-for-help-organizing-content-16/) 18. [2.7 Organizing Content as Story [Organizing Content #17]](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/06/29/organizing-content-as-story-organizing-content-17/) 19. [2.8 Separating Basic from Advanced Topics: How Twitter Organizes Their Help [Organizing Content #18]](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/07/08/separating-basic-from-advanced-topics-how-twitter-organizes-their-help-organizing-content-18/) 20. [2.9 Emergence [Organizing Content #19]](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/07/20/emergence-organizing-content-19/) 21. [3.0 Relying on the Wisdom of the Crowds with Help Authoring [Organizing Content #20]](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/07/27/relying-on-the-wisdom-of-the-crowds-with-help-authoring-organizing-content-20/) 22. [3.1 Principles for Organizing Print Material [Organizing Content #21]](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/07/30/principles-for-organizing-print-material-organizing-content-21/) 23. [3.2 The Technical Writer as an Outsider: How Ambitious Are You? [Organizing Content #22]](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/08/06/the-technical-writer-as-an-outsider-how-ambitious-are-you/) 24. [3.3 The Interface Is Text [Organizing Content #23]](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/08/11/the-interface-is-text-organizing-content-23/) 25. [3.4 Best Practices for Writing Interface Text [Organizing Content #24]](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/08/13/best-practices-for-writing-interface-text-organizing-content-24/) 26. [3.5 Organizing for Learnability [Organizing Content #25]](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/09/01/organizing-for-learnability-organizing-content-25/) 27. [3.6 Why Learning Software Is So Hard, and Organizing Content into Levels [Organizing Content #26]](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/09/09/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]](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/09/22/whence-rhetoric/) 29. [3.8 Organizing Content for Constructivist Learning [Organizing Content #28]](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/09/27/organizing-content-for-constructivist-learning-organizing-content-28/) 30. [3.9 Eight Defining Questions that Shape Content Organization [Organizing Content #29]](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/10/01/eight-defining-questions-that-shape-content-organization-organizing-content-29/) 31. [4.0 Why Help Content Fails and #contentstrategy](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/10/22/why-help-content-fails-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.