Content related to Top 5 Key Indicators That Your Content Is Performing For You
Designing Content Types for Performance Support
We know that learners struggle to translate what they have learned in a theoretical training to on the job performance improvement. We also know that training programs are most effective when they go beyond a single classroom or online learning … Continue reading
The Magical Art of Tidying Up Content
If you have Netflix, you’ve probably seen Tidying Up pop up on your feed. It’s a new series based on Marie Kondo’s book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, which presents her methodology for clearing your clutter, getting organized, and … Continue reading
6 Simple Design Principles to Supplement Your Messaging
Visual Design to Enhance Your Message On a daily basis, EK consultants create presentations for clients including everything from facilitation materials for knowledge management workshops and meetings, to educational web resources for web products. As a design enthusiast, I’m often … Continue reading
Cleaning Up Content Cobwebs
Every Knowledge Management (KM) effort should include cleaning up existing content, whether the goal is migrating to a new system, implementing a taxonomy or search tool, or just clearing the clutter of old, irrelevant content cobwebs. Regardless of your KM … Continue reading
How to Create a Content Type
In earlier blogs from this series, we described in simple terms what a content type means through a sweet analogy with cakes (see “What is a Content Type?”) and talked about the benefits of creating a content type (see “Three … Continue reading
Three Key Benefits of Using Content Types
Organizations often come to us saying “We’re constantly having to go back and fix deliverables based off of outdated reports,” or “Every page in our Intranet looks different, and we never know how to find what we’re looking for.” A … Continue reading
What is a Content Type?
More often than ever, our clients’ Intranet projects involve developing and implementing Content Types to improve the creation and management of content. This includes the creation of news articles, policies, guidelines, and other common Intranet content items. The overwhelming amount … Continue reading
Improving Findability using Content Deconstruction
Lengthy documents spanning tens or hundreds of pages are commonplace in today’s enterprises. However, they provide a host of issues when trying to integrate into a company’s intranet. These issues can be solved by the use of content deconstruction – breaking large documents into more granular, manageable units of content – for improved tagging and findability. Continue reading
Data Uniformity Inside of Google Analytics or the Use of Filters
Google Analytics does not automatically apply uniformity of data, making it difficult to parse and analyze information about your web properties. Thankfully, Google Analytics offers us a solution in the form of filters. Filters can be used for any number … Continue reading
Using Google Analytics to Obtain Customer Intimacy
Recently the term “customer intimacy” has exploded upon the digital landscape. Companies, corporations, and other entities have been exploring ways to better understand just who their actual customers are and how they can better relate to them. Customer Intimacy: The … Continue reading