Kristina Halvorson is a content strategist and the founder of Brain Traffic and Confab.

She joined us for a deep dive into content strategy.

We talked about (roughly in order):

Q & A:

21:40 I’m the lead for website development projects at an advertising firm and I get asked a lot from clients, “How should I send you changes to the website?” Is there a service that allows you to see the website along with an overlay of the clients markup and notes?

27:24 I’ve recently started a small WordPress blog with a few friends. I tell them to make sure they fill out important fields before posting articles (featured images, categories, etc). I still find that they often forget these fields. Do you know of any plugins or alternate solutions to make these fields a requirement before someone can publish an article?

30:03 My company’s sites have some duplicated content. How badly does this affect our Google page rank for products?

37:10 What CMS would you recommend for needs like e-commerce specific content on mobile?

42:43 I’d like to show a different design (different JS, CSS, and content) to mobile users on my WordPress site. Any advice for me?

49:14 The other day I stumbled upon The Grid. Their goal seems to be automating the website layout and design process based on a users content via Ai and machine learning. How do you guys feel this will effect the website design industry? Since this looks pretty straightforward for anyone to use, will this cause for designers to start moving into development?

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Show Links:

Follow Kristina on Twitter

Brain Traffic

Content Strategy for the Web

Confab Events

The Philosophy of Data

The Elements of Content Strategy

Psyco Suzi’s Moto Lounge

Gather Content

One Note

Evernote

Microsoft Spartan

CodePen Editor

The Grid

Acrolinx

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