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Structured Strategy: How to Supercharge Your Content Analysis with XML and XPath
Last week in Atlanta, George, I presented the following talk at the Society for Technical Communication Summit 2023: The best content strategists are limited by how much content they can analyze. There comes a point where a content set becomes too large to analyze using usual methods. Do you have the skills to scale your… Continue reading
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Information Management on Web3
On Tuesday, April 18, 2023, I presented this talk at ConVEx Baltimore: Web3 will supposedly revolutionize our experiences online, but how will it change our information management practices? This presentation will catch the audience up with the latest conversations in AI-powered content strategy, NFT metadata standards, and distributed alternatives to HTTP such as the InterPlanetary… Continue reading
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Nonfungible Content: NFTs and Content Management
On Thursday, May 2, 2022, I presented this talk at the ContentTECH Summit in San Diego, CA. NFTs aren’t only for trading artwork and meme GIFs; they may one day be central to the way your organization monetizes, distributes, and verifies content. This session will explore how verifiably unique digital assets have the potential to… Continue reading
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Elon Musk Laughed
Elon Musk is like a real life Ayn Rand protagonist. While many critics of Twitter’s inequitable content moderation policies have proposed amending Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act so that Twitter and other social media giants are recognized as publishers rather than platforms, Musk circumvented that less-than-ideal solution entirely. He did the thing that… Continue reading
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The New Scissors and Ink
Actions have consequences, no matter what. But the modern day architectures of information in which we carry out our many of our day-to-day actions have a tendency to obfuscate and distort our perceptions of those consequences, and indeed even the true nature of the actions themselves. Continue reading
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“Microcontent Pipeline to Chatbots and Voice Assistants”
Use microcontent to put your team in the driver’s seat to the next level of content publishing for intelligent chatbots. By now reality has revealed that ChatGPT is not ready to write our product documentation for us. With no control over what the publicly-trained models scrape from our websites and blogs and how it assimilates our documentation with other less-authoritative sources, we’re left to wonder where we go next. If we want reliable bots, we’ll need to train our own models and deploy them to our staff and our customers. Let us show you what we’ve learned so far.