Intelligent Content

Ep. 12 – Intelligent Content: Margot Bloomstein—Speaking The Truth About Content Strategy


Listen Later

Margot Bloomstein sat at the “founders’ table” when content strategy was not only named, but also planted and nurtured to become an industry of its own. Margot gives us a peek at the earliest days of content strategy, then quickly shifts to top-of-mind topics that will take us deep into some hot issues few content strategists dare to travel. Everything from trust, cynicism, and what has her fired up to write another book.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

 1:58 – The Margot Bloomstein Story

 6:28 – A Seat at the Content Strategy Founders’ Table

 9:07 – What Came Out of the 2009 Content Consortium?

 11:37 – The Power of Open Sharing

 12:31 – Defining Intelligent Content

 14:30 – “We Have Intelligence But Do We have Creativity?”

 15:00 – Hating On Our CMS

 16:23 – Is There a Simple Answer to Content ROI?

 19:44 – Deep, Slow-Simmering Thoughts of Margot Bloomstein

 22:55 – Cynicism Undermining Trust in Brands

 24:06 – It’s All a Matter of TRUST

 28:42 – “Putting a Period Where There Should Be a Comma”

 30:35 – Another Book In the Works?

 32:34 – Taking Content’s Volume Game to Task

 36:00 – Is There a Hopeful Outcome for Content Strategy?

 37:45 – Answer: “Fried Oysters and Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough”

 

Notes:

Website: Appropriate Inc.

Twitter:  @mbloomstein

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Intelligent ContentBy IntelligentContent with Jeff Nowak