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How to design, and extend, great content experience: A culinary , somewhat cautionary, tale. Water, Lands and Ecosystems-ILRI Blogging Workshop ILRI Nairobi 21 March 2014 Susan MacMillan ILRI Public Awareness. Prepare 6 ingredients. Branding Appetizing Digestible Nourishing Mobile
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How to design, and extend,great content experience: A culinary, somewhat cautionary, tale Water, Lands and Ecosystems-ILRI Blogging Workshop ILRI Nairobi 21 March 2014 Susan MacMillan ILRI Public Awareness
Prepare 6 ingredients • Branding • Appetizing • Digestible • Nourishing • Mobile • Lasting
Make itBRANDED • Colour • Pictures • Style guide • Blog guidelines • Categories/tags • Workflows
Make itAPPETIZING • Pretty setting • Tasty nibbles • Pithy headlines • Arresting pictures • Engaging captions • Punchy quotes • ‘Display text’ • Spot colour
Make itDIGESTIBLE • Arresting facts • Memorable quotes • Trenchant summaries • Embedded videos • Witty remarks • (Parenthetical remarks) • Symmetries / Poetries • Jargon/acronym free
Make itNOURISHING • Tell stories • State facts • Read others • Link others • Quote others • Credit others • Make it personal • Make it new • End it well
Make itMOBILE • Email • iPads/ Tablets • iPhones • Smart phones • Dumb phones • Websites • Radio / TV
Make itLASTING • Twitter • Tumblr • LinkedIn • Facebook • Google+ • Website • Enews • Storify • RebelMouse
Acknowledgments • ILRI KMIS/ Angela Nekessa, Ben Hack • ILRI bloggers / Paul Karaimu • CGIAR, WLE / Abby Waldorf