The official CS Forum 2012 blog

Speaker precap 5: Kristina, Luke, Bruce, Jonathon, Rachel, and Relly

Kristina Halvorson CEO, Brain Traffic Kristina on Twitter | Kristina’s keynote I’m really looking forward to meeting Kristina. If you’re anywhere near the content strategy field you’ll know about her, of course – and you’ve more than likely read her book. It’ll be great to meet someone who is so central to the content strategy community, if [...]

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Speaker precap 4: meet Richard Ingram, Cleve Gibbon, Angela Colter, Tracy Ulin and Max Johns

As purveyors of fine content, we all know that the smaller details often make or break an experience. We need to really do our homework to plan for the clearest, most effective content possible for our users and businesses. Some people just seem to have a natural knack for nailing these details.  Enter Richard, Cleve, [...]

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Putting our work in context (a guest post)

We present a guest post from one of our speakers and workshop presenters, Rachel Lovinger. Currently, Rachel is an Experience Director at Razorfish in New York. She is a regular presenter on content strategy, UX, and the semantic web, and has authored many publications about these subjects. Find her on Twitter at @rlovinger.   One of the [...]

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Speaker precap 3: meet Diane Murphy, Joaquín Moreno, Kate Kiefer Lee, Lucie Hyde and Cennydd Bowles

No matter what kind of organisation you’re working for, or who your clients are, it’s always inspiring and somewhat educational to hear from those who have the privilege – and challenge – of working on big-name brands. Well-known web properties are well represented in our speaker line-up. Today we’re going to focus on just a [...]

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Submit your lightning talk idea

Want to share the CS Forum 2012 stage with these fabulous people? Here’s your chance. We’re now taking proposals for lightning talks. What on earth is a lightning talk? It’s a short, punchy session on a topic that you feel strongly about. Specifically: It’s 5 minutes long – absolutely not a second more. It includes [...]

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Speaker precap 2: meet Frances Gordon, Heléne Lindsay and Thomas Bevan

Our second CS Forum ’12 precap post introduces you to our local South African content-wielding heroes: Frances Gordon, Heléne Lindsay and Thomas Bevan. One day, the halls of whatever content strategy’s Valhalla is will be filled with tales of their epic content battles. Frances Gordon Senior Content Strategist and Plain Language Writer, Simplified SA Frances [...]

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Speaker precap 1: meet Kate Johnson, Ibrahim Cesar, Jonathan Kahn and Corey Vilhauer

In the first of our CS Forum ’12 speaker precaps, we start off with four very smart cookies: Corey Vilhauer, Ibrahim Cesar, Kate Johnson and Jonathan Kahn. These guys and a gal are all tackling big topics, and are well-known for their smarts. Corey Vilhauer User Experience Strategist, Blend Interactive Corey on Twitter | Corey’s [...]

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We’ve got badges!

Who doesn’t like to indulge in a bit of subtle bragging now and then? Grab the applicable badge below, put it in a prominent spot on your blog, throw in a link to the conference website, and make sure that everyone knows that you’re coming to CS Forum 2012.             [...]

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Is CS Forum 2012 for me?

If you work anywhere in the online, print or mobile space, and you understand the value that good content practices add to every project, CS Forum 2012 is your conference. Not entirely sure that this “content strategy” thing is your bag? Well, if your job title sounds like any of these, you may already be doing content [...]

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Around the world in 10 minutes – a CS Forum preview

For our last Content Strategy Meetup, we asked a few of our international speakers to put together short video clips to introduce themselves to the local content community. The result is a virtual trip around the world, from the USA to Australia and back again, with a few short stopovers in Europe. Thanks so much [...]

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