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Happy Mardi Gras! Content is king. As many of you are working to build your core content, keep that in mind. Consider your audience; try to make your content accessible and accurate. Good content is not only accurate, but also engages the reader and guides them through your information. While we think our design is user-friendly and looks good, it's only as effective as the content it surrounds. For more tips on creating good content, visit http://goo.gl/JsVgx. 

An update on CMS8:

We are continuing to work with academic departments on core content and should have a few more sites coming up live soon. We've also uncovered a few issues with taxonomy and with library items that we are working on fixing. We appreciate all the hard work that you are putting into the academic sites.


Content is extremely important. Just wanted to add a few tips to this post.

Know what your visitors are looking for. Answer the questions and problems they have.

If your content is more than a few paragraphs, make it easy to scan. As the post states, it guides them through the content. Have lots of white space. Use bullets and headlines.

Be helpful. Be valuable.

HTH
Posted by: Shelly( Visit ) at 3/22/2011 6:03 PM


Thanks for the very useful writing tips. I finally convinced my geologist husband to start writing on our company blog. We own a business that sells and rents environmental equipment to universities, govt. agencies and environmental consultants. I passed on you advice to consider our audiences interests and this time I think he wrote an outstanding post on how lawmakers are trying to weaken environmental programs in our state. It was a big success. He even had several people call him to discuss it!
Posted by: Denise Chew( Visit ) at 4/10/2011 1:15 AM


And never forget that a diagram or picture could provide meaningfull information as well. And it's always enjoyable to read if text is illustrated by visual information.
Posted by: Marc( Visit ) at 5/20/2011 7:43 AM


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