The Author Experience -- Interview with Rick Yagodich
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While I was at Information Development World, I had a conversation with Rick Yagodich about his new book, Author Experience. This is one of the first books in The Content Strategy series of books. During our conversation, Rick and I talked about the following topics:
- Why do people have such poor experiences with CMSs?
- What are key considerations authors need in a CMS?
- How important is it to see relationships among content in a CMS?
- How important are workflows in a CMS, and why are they so problematic?
- Can authors have good experiences with their content without having a CMS?
- Do CMSs inject tags into your code to handle styles and IDs? Does this make it more difficult to work with the code?
- How do you figure out details about CMS vendors such as cost, features, etc, when this information is rarely published?
- How does AX differ from a treatment of CMSs?
- How can we give so much emphasis on AX over UX? Isn't UX more important?
- Why did you pick this topic? What about your background or experiences made you particularly interested in the author experience?
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You can learn more about Rick Yagodich by following him on Twitter @think_info or by reading his blog at http://think-info.com or the companion book site theaxbook.com.
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