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Want to go to the 2015 Intelligent Content Conference? Here’s $100 for you!

ICC_Affiliate_300x250I can’t believe it’s been almost a year since I went to the Intelligent Content Conference in San Jose, California at Scott Abel‘s invitation. To say the least, I have to say I had a marvelous time. This is a conference that focuses on content strategy, and all the presentations were loaded with information that either reinforced what I had already learned, or introduced new ideas and concepts on the subject. The thing I liked about it was that it really had something for everyone at all professional levels–even for somebody like me who still considers herself a newbie.  I also met a lot of new professional contacts who specialize in content strategy–a real “who’s who” of content strategy attended. Over the past year, I’ve learned a great amount from each of these experts and have been able to apply much of what I’ve learned to my job. (That’s important!)

This year, the Intelligent Content Conference  (ICC) changed hands from the Rockley Group to the Content Marketing Institute. But fret not! Ann Rockley and Scott Abel are still very much involved with ICC, but now attendees have the added bonus of the know-how of the Content Marketing Institute and the wisdom of Robert Rose and Joe Pulizzi! Joe spoke as a keynote speaker at last year’s ICC, and he was fantastic, presenting the concepts of content marketing to this content strategy crowd. The merging of these two groups will open up new doors connecting content strategists and content marketers, and it should be great!

The Intelligent Content Conference  is in San Francisco, California this year, and will be held on March 23-25, 2015. It looks like it’s going to be a great conference, and a nice time of year in San Francisco, too!

Alas, due to timing, I can’t go. (Awwww.) I’m immensely disappointed, that I can tell you. But, don’t let that stop you from going if you can! I’ve been in contact with the good folks at the Content Marketing Institute, and they let me know that if you click on the image at the top of this post, or use the image on the right sidebar of this blog, and use the code TCGM100, you can get a $100 discount on your registration. How cool is that? “Ka-ching” for you!

So, what are you waiting for? Go click on the image now, and check out what ICC has to offer this year (which is a LOT!), and register now!

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Content strategy – Complete or Done?

Are we giving our customers the right content at the right time or are we giving them an encyclopedia to work through? What’s our content strategy?

Source: www.sharonburton.com

Sharon Burton has written an excellent article here about what content strategy is about. The argument she makes is one that I make often during my work. It’s great to have lots of information available, but if there’s no context or it’s difficult to navigate through to find the specific information you are looking for, it’s worthless. 

 

Read this article. Sharon articulate this concept brilliantly. 

–techcommgeekmom

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What to do when you need a break from blogging

Blogging can become all consuming at times. You’re constantly coming up with ideas, doing research, writing, and publishing. Then repeating the cycle over and over again. It can become a grind. Eve…

Source: scottnesbitt.net

Some good advice here from Scott Nesbitt. I’ve employed some of these, and I think that now that I have over 800 posts on my blog, I can certainly bring back some of the earlier posts here and there for newer readers who missed things the first time around! 

 

Another thing I find helpful is curating content, much like what I’m doing right here. There are lots of great articles out there about the topics you like to cover, so why not share them? I curate content to bring in new ideas from others, but also as a means of saving information for myself later that I think my readers will find interesting as well. 

 

But we all need a break now and then, and it’s not that we don’t want to blog anymore–it could be that we are just busy or stumped on something exciting to say at the moment! 

 

How do you get over a writing block, especially on a blog? Share your ideas in the comments. 

–techcommgeekmom

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Google Will Stop Selling Glass Next Week

The Explorers program is coming to an end

Source: time.com

Maybe it was a good thing that I returned my Google Glass shortly after I received it. I still think it’s a good idea, and hopefully with the use of the data gathered through the Explorer Program, they’ll be able to fine tune some things that didn’t work out so great, and continue to develop what did work well. 

 

What do you think? Do you think Google is pulling it because it failed,, or because this was merely stage 1?  Include your comments below. 

–techcommgeekmom

 

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Why CMI Fell in Love with Intelligent Content (And You Will, Too)

Why was Joe Pulizzi delivering the keynote presentation at last year’s Intelligent Content Conference? He challenged the notion that content marketing is an isolated effort belonging to marketing.

Source: www.intelligentcontentconference.com

Marcia Riefer Johnston has written a great article about this year’s upcoming Intelligent Content Conference. I attended last year’s conference at the same time as she, and I will concur that it was a great conference to attend, and it’s where I first heard of content marketing. It’s content marketing which I’m in the process of understanding this year, hence the digital marketing courses that I’ll be starting shortly.  

 

Take a look at this, as I had a pretty similar reaction last year as Marcia did (but she phrases it much more eloquently that I could). If you can go to this year’s, I highly encourage it. Unfortunately, I can’t make it to this year’s, but don’t let that stop you from going! 

–techcommgeekmom

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