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Implementing Structured Authoring: The Eight Stages of Grief

You manage a team of content creators and you’ve decided to embrace structured authoring. Congratulations! Perhaps you’ve heard that a structured environment will help your team create content that is consistent, modular, and reusable.

Terminology is Like Laundry

I get a great feeling of satisfaction when all of my laundry is done. The clothes are washed, pressed, folded, and put away. Of course, things are put away in my uber-organized, structured closet. It’s that feeling of being done with a task – sometimes a daunting task if I

Reusable Content is Like Your LBD

A few months ago, we had an interesting discussion about structured content being like your closet. A few additional people wrote blog posts on the topic, too. One thing we all agreed on (I think?) is that structure provides a way for you to organize your content.

Structured Content is Like Your Closet

I had a really interesting conversation today with my friend, Cheryl Landes. For those of you who don’t know Cheryl, she is a content organizer extraordinaire. Cheryl has tremendous experience – particularly in the indexing arena. And for those of you who don’t have an appreciation for the fine art