Content Strategy Candy

Clients always ask me for recommendations on what to read to prepare themselves for the content part of a big website project.

Books

• Content Strategy for the Web
• Sketching User Experiences
• Don't Make Me Think
• Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites
• The Web Content Strategist’s Bible
• Letting Go of the Words
• Information Architecture
• Communicating Design

Tip: When I just put these into amazon, it suggested a whole slew of new books! So this list will probably keep growing.

Blogs

• A List Apart
• Whitney Hess's Pleasure & Pain
• Contents Magazine

I also wrote some blog posts about content strategy for Thinkso's blog:

• Basics
• Usability Testing
• Social Media
• Web Writing

Twitter Feeds

• Karen McGrane
• Kristina Halvorson
• Relly Annett-Baker (based in London!)
• Erin Kissane
• Mandy Brown

Tools

• Balsamiq for information architecture/UX, not for content.
• Gather for collecting content