We publish entertaining, educational media to support knowledge workers in the theory, practice, business and craft of creating digital content.The Content Technologist is also a content strategy consultancy founded in 2019 by Deborah Carver. 

We help businesses you've heard of with their audience research, information architecture, and website redesign strategy. We're currently an evolving solopreneurship that has navigated a number of challenges, but we're still thriving. Our brand style guide declares we use "we," even when our numbers have been whittled to just me, Deborah. More about me here.

We develop in-depth unique resources that you won’t find in other B2B media. That’s because we make content that we—the creators and knowledge workers who develop and implement the digital world—want to read.

We offer the following resources for content professionals: 

• The Content Technologist newsletter - a free newsletter founded in 2019 was sent weekly on Thursday.
• This website, home to more than 200 articles about digital content with insights you won't find anywhere else
• We've created courses in the past, which you can still find here. Currently we're reevaluating what to do with that content.

On our embrace of "content"

We realize that the term “content” is fraught, even hated, particularly among the professionals whose careers have turned from “writing” to “content production.” We’ve been there; we empathize. But we see “content” as oppositional to form. If a digital medium, framework or software is the “form,” then content professionals create the “content.” 

We also push back on the stereotypical connotations of “content”: that “content” should be cheap to create or consume; that it’s easy to make; that successful content is in any way cookie-cutter; that it’s something one creates as a “side hustle” rather than a full-time job.

“Content” isn’t the enemy: Keeping content creative, not generative

Publisher Deborah Carver weighs in on recent criticism of the word “content,” and perhaps more importantly, the “forms” used in generative content production.

The Content TechnologistDeborah Carver

Collaborators, sponsors and partners

Want to reach our audience of content strategists, founders, decision-makers, and creators who are defining what digital content looks like in the 2020s? If you're seeking a new way to get your product, brand or thought leadership out into the world, check out our partnership options.

• For brands: Sponsor our content - Want to reach an audience of creative decision-makers using technology to break boundaries and make a better internet? Explore sponsorship with us.
• For creator-collaborators: We love talking with other experts, and we love conversing with others in our industry. Want us on your podcast or in your newsletter? Reach out!

We are also affiliates of a select number of software companies and may accept a small commission from links on our website. Affiliate links are always noted on the pages or newsletters where they appear.

Please note that we do not participate in link exchanges and do not accept guest posts.

The Content Technologist approach

Because we publish on computers rather than via traditional print, we have developed a methodology that incorporates digital data to inform (but not overwhelm) creative content online.

See our approach