Administration

Choosing content management systems, identifying collaborators, sustainable planning, requirements gathering, scoping and resourcing, software and tool selection, financing and budgeting, and the how-does-it-get-done of content.

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The content professional's guide to choosing software

Start with your needs and move forward: Choose your content software stack like a pro.

The present is blinding enough

Spray-painted in the middle of the street, the demands of the protestors of George Floyd Square.

2021 reflections and 2022 resolutions

Contracts get freelancers paid: Bonsai review

Contracts are key to a freelancer's financial security and sanity. To keep my business in line, I use the automated contract templating system in Bonsai.

distribution

Build your knowledge graph without bugging your dev team: Schema App review

If you'd like to add schema markup to websites without extensive development support, Schema App provides support. Read The Content Tehcnologist review

Distributed authority, decentralized autonomy

Despite all the clever acronyms and contracts (DAOs) and public meetings and charters (Minneapolis), what appears to be distributed power is actually concentrated in the hands of the few who have wealth and privilege.

information architecture

The stubbornly persistent data management / CRM / content calendar tool for web-based businesses: Airtable review

If you think you may start a directory one day, Airtable is a great place for all that info, as well as anything else you could store in a jacked-up spreadsheet.