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Create Compelling and Useful Content Kim Magden March 12, 2014

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Discover ways to create and manage compelling and useful content through wikis, data dashboards, and videos.

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Page 1: Content Strategy: Creating Compelling Content for Internal Audiences

Create Compelling and Useful Content

Kim MagdenMarch 12, 2014

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Products

Tableau Desktop

Tableau Server

Tableau Public+ explore, visualize,

and analyze data+ answer questions+ create dashboards + deliver interactive

data experiences

+ web-based business intelligence

+ web analytics, reporting & dashboards

+ secure information and metadata management

+ enterprise integration and security

+ host interactive data on public web

+ tell stories and create conversations

+ social data collaboration

Tableau Online+ Tableau Server

functionality+ cloud hosting+ subscription pricing+ push data via Extracts+ connect to live cloud

sources

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Tableau Product Development

Internal audience• product architects and developers• support, QA, test, and release

engineers• program & international project

managers • writers, designers, and researchers

Growing fast• hired over 100 people in last year • forecast to add another 100 this year

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Keep content current

drive archive policyencourage feedback promote suggestion list

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Communication channels evolving

from freeform, tribal knowledge

to curated, rationalized information

data dashboard

s

videos

managed topics

SharePoint

wiki

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Partnering

Share usage stats• know who views content

• compare usage to product ship cadence

Watch email and chats• belong to active distribution lists

• lurk in active chat room

Listen to ad hoc conversations• kitchen, coffee machine, water cooler

• open office environment

• conference roundtable discussions

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Guide content creation

Throughvideo interviews and demossticky note brainstormingcontent mockups top email questions / chat

discussionscontent audits and usage

reports

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Case study 1: New Hire Learning Nuggets

content already existed • Licensing 101

• How to submit bugs

• How to enter backlog items

audience need defined steps to create video established and

repeatable

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Case study 2: Data Connections

content completeness varied• 40 connections

audience• feature teams

• test

• technical partnerships

centralized & structured content

assigned team to maintain

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Create compelling and useful content

know your audienceassess current and

future information needs

partner

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Resources and references• Panopto (end-to-end video solution)• Confab, conference for content strategistBooks• Content Strategy for the Web

Kristina Halvorson • The Stranger’s Long Neck

Gerry McGovern • Content Everywhere

Sara Wachter-Boettcher