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Members May 20, 2021 by dc in newsletter-archive

CT No.82: Announcing the content designer's toolkit

5.20.21: Submit your favorite content design software nominations! Say hi and ask for advice on Fridays + a couple of links.

Paid members May 13, 2021 by dc

CT No.81: Are your ads/PR working? Organic data has an answer

5.13.21: Measuring brand awareness, my favorite subscription-focused ESP, and the iPhone privacy referendum

Members May 6, 2021 by dc in newsletter-archive

CT No.80: Own that brand!

5.6.21: The ultimate guide to branded SEO, a review of my favorite media monitoring software, and some deeply heady links

Paid members April 29, 2021 by dc in newsletter

CT No.79: The politics of software

4.29.21: Basecamp's woes shouldn't be your Basecamp-loving team's; time tracking is the secret to your content business; the complete guide to cumulative layout shift and more.

Members April 22, 2021 by dc in newsletter

CT No.78: Landing page islands and design-forward websites

4.22.21: Why your content strategist grumbles when you say the phrase "landing page", an amazing no-code web design tool, and a case study on capturing a Gen Z voice in a fintech app

Paid members April 15, 2021 by dc in newsletter

CT No.77: How to choose a CMS

4.15.21: Black lives matter, always; picking a content management system; a review of Squarespace; and a few links

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CT No.249: Weathering the sea change

CT No.248: Robots read text, not subtext

And other insights for developing content in the new era of AI-powered search

CT No. 247: For the rage monkeys and the print nerds

A holiday gift guide for the content professionals in your life

CT No.245: Billy Joel mathletics

Query fan-out is a new term for what's long been a bedrock of keyword-based language processing: the nouns are central to understanding the user's intent.

CT No.244: Explicating "attention" in LLMs

The words we publish and hold up for peer review remain the best representation of our brains at work in the digital world. A published paper is the best way to look closely at the foundational assumptions of LLMs. And those begin with pop culture.