A lovely li'l website zhuzh
A downside of being an enterprise content strategist with a small newsletter and consulting practice is that I think in big, enterprise information architectures that require teams to build... but individually, I can really only execute the work of one person.
For the past couple of years, I've shifted my business model with the tides of the 2020s, and I've started a bunch of projects... several of which remain unfinished. I'm trying to tidy all that up. I have goals to transition most of that content into something else.
But in the meantime, I wanted the website to reflect that The Content Technologist is now more or less only a newsletter until... until the future gets here, I guess.
I also wanted to highlight the archive and upgrade to a more contemporary Ghost theme that can use all the super rad advanced features. I finally set up commenting (let me know what you think!).
I'm also stoked about the new Ghost federated social recommendation tools, and if I'm going to recommend my own newsletter directly, I should probably make my newsletter appear recommendable.
And so... live on The Content Technologist website: A brand new look!
This update is what we in the website redesign biz call a "re-skin." It's still the same underlying content architecture, but with a new look and feel. Ghost allows users to switch themes in and out, kinda like Wordpress used to, and I have been eyeing the Myoan theme for more than a year. I made a few tweaks to make it my own, and there are probably some bugs under the hood.
I am aiming to return to the the habit of writing a newsletter. So that's the next step. My thoughts are big and messy, but I'm reigning them into essays and the like.
In the meantime, I'd love to hear your feedback. In lieu of a reader survey this year, I'll be happy for all the anecdata you want to give me. Comment, email, thumbs up, thumbs down: it's all welcome here.
Be as well as you can be. Listening to "Bulls on Parade" and the new Wet Leg song have helped me in the past months and days, respectively.
—DC
The Content Technologist is a newsletter and consultancy based in Minneapolis, working with clients and collaborators around the world. The entire newsletter is written and edited by Deborah Carver, independent content strategy consultant, speaker, and educator.
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Cultural recommendations / personal social: Spotify | Instagram | Letterboxd | PI.FYI
Did you read? is the assorted content at the very bottom of the email. Cultural recommendations, off-kilter thoughts, and quotes from foundational works of media theory we first read in college—all fair game for this section.
Like many of you watching The White Lotus and The Righteous Gemstones, I've got Walton Goggins on the noggin. Watch this reel if you need a fix between episodes.