Minneapolis, MN

Deborah Carver

Deborah Carver is the publisher of The Content Technologist. She is an independent consultant on all things digital publishing, specializing in large content-driven websites.

364 posts

The best content, marketing and creative newsletters: 2021 blogroll

For those of us who grew up on the internet, the newsletter glut feels a bit like the early days of blogging, where everyone had a platform and a perspective. Here are my favorites.

Search & Discovery

A guide to SEO resources for all levels in 2021

All essays and reviews about SEO from The Content Technologist — plus some outside resources — organized by skill level and topic

Production

Easily pull text from images and videos: TextSniper review

TextSniper has me reminiscing about my early career in content digitization and OCR scans.

Search & Discovery

Substack v. Ghost: What's better for SEO and UX?

One of the easiest ways to build a sustainable independent media business is to succeed in organic search. So which publishing platform is better for SEO?

Just show me what you did real quick: Loom review

Loom records video and audio of your screen and is primarily used for software demonstration. Read The Content Technologist review.

Analytics

Big marketing stats with no context are (defeatable) monsters

Our professional conversations in the age of data excess and growth hacking don’t often reflect complex narratives. Data should never shut down reasonable dissent.