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By: Howard Frelow

Howard Frelow — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:11:41 +0000

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By: Margot Bloomstein

Margot Bloomstein — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:46:32 +0000

Well put, Ian. It’s exciting to see this sort of evolution within content strategy, and I expect we’ll continuing discovering and describing nuanced facets as the discipline matures. ~Seven years ago, I think many of us were of the “editorialist” variety you describe, but I’m proud that we’re becoming a “bit tent” discipline that embraces our more tech-oriented brethren along with those rare but fabulous content strategy-savvy designers.

I wonder if by focusing on the breadth of our work we’ll avoid the strangling quicksand of the “define the damn thing” discussion that mires other disciplines in our industry?

By: Rahel

Rahel — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:20:27 +0000

Good article to try and delineate some of the stratas of CSes. These also change with levels of experience. An editorial CS may become a design CS, or develop their technological acumen and do a switch somewhere along the line. Interesting stuff – like your take on it.

By: Destry Wion

Destry Wion — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:03:53 +0000

Paramount article, Ian, and I love the ornithological slant. I think these four delineations are very timely; a lot of people around the world (already) have come to hear about this CS thing and are now looking for more insight to how their schema maps to it.

Having wore a lot of hats across the technology, UX/IA and design realms, I recognize a lot of overlap across these four areas, which makes me feel pretty good about my grasp of CS so far, holistically speaking.

I do witness conversations among newcomers, however, where people talk confidently about content strategy but lack background in two or more of these four realms, as evident by their dialog. This seems especially true from the technologists camp, and thus why I think this is a timely article.

Clearly there’s a lot of exciting work to do yet; teaching, learning, defining, establishing, acknowledging, rewarding…