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FUTURE PROOFING
YOUR CONTENT
(Or, Death to the WYSIWYG)
#14NTCwysiwyg
Brett Meyer
Content Strategist
@brett_meyer
Death to the
WYSIWYG?
XEROX PARC
β€œYou mean, what I see
is what I get?”
Karen Thacker
Wife of Chuck Thacker
Desktop Publishing
β€œIt's gambling that the world is
ready to accept a new
standard. My personal point
of view is that the world is not.”
Peter McWilliams
Author, Personal
Computer Book, on NPR,
1984
And so,
here we are...
WYSIWYG
Wordpress generated
40,000,000,000 pageviews in
2012 from its 60,000,000
blogs.
J. O’Dell
VentureBeat
2014 Nonprofit Content Marketing Report
2014 Nonprofit Content Marketing Report
1,500,000 Nonprofits in the
United States
GrantSpace.org
That’s
a lot
of content.
But the Internet
isn’t print.
So let’s talk about mobile
There will come a point at
which no one will need to ask
β€œWhy would somebody want
to do that on mobile?”
Karen McGrane
The Mobile Content
Mandate
63% of U.S. adults use their
phone to go online.
Pew Research
31% only or mostly use the
Internet on mobile.
Pew Research
Future-Proofing Your Content
59% of low-income
Americans have no
broadband Internet access at
home.
Pew Research
43% of low-income
Americans only or mostly
use the Internet on mobile.
Pew Research
The Raw Numbers from Pew
2 to 3 billion people will
come online globally through
the mobile internet over the
next decade.
McKinsey
Only 16% of consumer
brands have a mobile
strategy.
Digiday
There will come a point at
which no one will need to ask
β€œWhy would somebody want
to do that on mobile?”
Karen McGrane
The Mobile Content
Mandate
The people who will make
that happen are the people
who are adopting mobile
devices ... because they do
not have access to a
personal computer.
Karen McGrane
The Mobile Content
Mandate
And what about this?
And this?
Don’t even get me started...
The future: audio interfaces
β€œYou don’t get to decide
which device people use to
go on the Internet. They do.”
Karen McGrane
The Mobile Content
Mandate
But not everybody gets
to choose.
Remember WYSIWYG?
Blobs
vs
Chunks
NPR’s COPE
Create Once
Publish Everywhere
NPR.org
NPR.org: Desktop
NPR.org: Tablet
NPR.org: Phone
NPR.org: iPhone App
NPR.org: iPhone App
NPR.org: iPad App
NPR.org: iPad App
OPB.org
OPB.org
Structured content
Create Once
Publish Everywhere
NPR’s API
NPR’s API
New York Times
Boston Globe
Song Structure
Nothing exciting here
Content Type: Album
Content Type: Album
Content Type: Song
Content Type: Song
Content Type: Performance
Content Type: Performance
Interlude: Metadata
Descriptive metadata is
explicit information
supplied about a user,
resource, or event.
PJ Uses Metadata
And so do nonprofits,
just like yours.
Interlude: Paradata
Paradata is information
about relationships
between users and
content.
Amazon Uses Paradata
Beyond
Structured Content
NPR.org Revisited
NPR.org Revisited
Jeff Eaton
The Battle for the Body
Field
Reporters and editors insisted it would
cripple their work. They needed to mix
in multiple videos, a gallery and a poll,
or several related article teasers, at
specific points in each article.
Store meaning, not
appearance, in the
body field.
Jeff Eaton
The Battle for the Body
Field
WYSIWYM
WYSIWYM
What You Say Is
What You Mean
Future-Proofing Your Content
Future-Proofing Your Content
OPB Revisited
Talking Points
Talking Points
Talking Points
Talking Points
The Toolset
The Toolset
The Toolset
The Toolset
Some Resources
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