The Content Strategy Knowledge Base aims to support practitioners, students and teachers of content strategy.
Stuck on story ideas? Trigger techniques from Mario Pricken’s Creative Advertising help you break through writer’s block by reframing, exaggerating or twisting everyday situations. Use these creative prompts to spark fresh, compelling stories that grab attention and inspire action.
The article shows how domain and content modelling were used to structure the abstract topic of aesthetics in Craft CMS, focusing on clarity, flexibility, and visual consistency.
Content Management Systems quietly power most websites and online shops by helping teams create, organize, and publish content more easily. This intro covers what a CMS does, why content management matters, and how popular tools like WordPress and TYPO3 support the full content journey.
This article shows how structured content, workflows, system integration, and governance build scalable, sustainable enterprise content management. Drawing on insights from Carrie Hane and Deane Barker’s elective, it highlights why a strategic approach to content operations is essential.
Blogs are more than just articles. They are powerful tools for brands to connect, build trust, and share insights. In the Writing, Editing & Curating course with Teodora Petkova, we learned that creating a blog requires more than just writing – it’s about a strategic approach to reach your audience.
This article recounts a student team’s journey in creating a content strategy for Boxbase, a startup revolutionizing gym management. From defining user personas to crafting a strategy based on real insights, the project bridges theory and practice with actionable results.
Does your company operate in silos? Find out how content strategist Rahel Anne Bailie defines silos within communication and how you can ensure, your content production is still running smoothly.
This article explores how content strategy and content marketing complement each other. Strategy sets the goals, defines audiences and aligns with business needs, while marketing brings it to life through creation and distribution. Together, they ensure content is purposeful, consistent and delivers measurable impact.
More often than not, content is served in large quantities, without strategic direction, and not measured for its impact to the disadvantage of companies and their users. This is a fact that contributed to the rise of content strategy as a distinct discipline (Bailie, 2021) that aims to transform our content work from spontaneous and reactionary to structured, systematic, and measurable.
Want to create content that truly connects with your audience? Simon Sinek’s Start with Why reveals how purpose-driven messaging inspires loyalty and trust. This article explores Sinek’s Golden Circle framework and its impact on content strategy—helping brands craft stories that resonate and drive meaningful engagement.
This article explores the importance of content inventories as the foundation of a successful content strategy. By cataloging digital assets like web pages, images, and videos, a content inventory helps assess the current content landscape, identify opportunities for improvement, and set the stage for strategic, data-driven decision-making.
In November 2024 Madi Weland Solomon conducted an in-depth session on metadata modeling, focusing on creating content metadata models - a crucial aspect of digital content management. This lecture report outlines Solomon’s insights and practical steps for building, synchronizing and iterating metadata models.
