We spend all this time building channels to house our content, but many of us are strapped for time and talent (sometimes treasure!) to keep the content production in high-gear. In this talk, I highlight how weight lifting can helps us think about the ways to make content work across web, social and print to help youor your clientsthink creatively and strategically.
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Content Heavy Lifting: How to Upcycle and Recycle your Content Over and Over Again
1. HOW TO RECYCLE (AND UPCYCLE)
YOUR CONTENT OVER AND OVER AGAIN
CONTENT HEAVY LIFTING:
@meggo_costello
10. ADDITIVE BIG PICTURE THINKING
STARTED FROM THE TOP NOW IM HERE: PUBLICATIONS
Cover stories
Hero stories:
Pro鍖les
Long-form narratives
Q&As
Day-in-life
Origins stories
Sidebars
So much more
12. CONTENT HEAVY LIFTING
WHAT I LEARNED
Dont forget print. Let it be your birds eye or your
grounding force, or both.
Set aside time, even small amounts, to think big it can be
an important piece of upcycling/recycling.
Use art with intentionality to tell your story.
Think deliberately about your artist/designer and their story.
Use easy photo editing tools
(Canva, Pablo) that even
non-designers can use!
13. BE P&G
HOW CAN WE TAKE THIS FARTHER?
https://www.pgeveryday.com/products-reviews
15. STARTED FROM THE BOTTOM NOW WERE HERE
PEOPLE: TAKING CONTENT BEYOND
http://host.madison.com/wsj/today-s-students-need-more-than-a-job-hunt/article_b857ec36-8d63-50c9-bd6f-3f5669bd6e56.html
16. CONTENT HEAVY LIFTING
WHAT I LEARNED
Be P&G sometimes.
Think divisibly about your message.
Print + Web = always, right?
Think people 鍖rst.
Share your content and leverage your heros
network.
18. CONTENT HEAVY LIFTING
PRESENTATIONS, TALKING POINTS, SPEECHES
Rolling list of accomplishments
Success metrics and data points
Anecdotes and quotes
Stories about people
http://photos.uc.wisc.edu/photos/
21504/view
https://parent.wisc.edu/content/
uploads/2015/08/
parent_pgm_calendar_15-16.pdf
21. TO FUNDING PROPOSALS
(AND MUCH MORE)
http://news.ls.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ls_ar_2015_FINAL.pdf
22. CONTENT HEAVY LIFTING
WHAT I LEARNED
Upcycle beyond content to people, things, places, events
think big (with focus)!
Keep a running list of accomplishments into your additive
story.
Freshen up your divisible elevator pitch.
27. SO WE ASKED
FOR CONTENT
FROM THE
COURSE
http://news.ls.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ls_ar_2015_FINAL.pdf
28. WISHING FOR DIVISIBLE CONTENT
SOME MISSED OPPORTUNITIES (STEAL THESE IDEAS)
Guest posts on medium.com? Tumblr?
Promoting Gregs blog posts for social (whos your star blogger? Social
star? Networker?)
Listicle content from our annual report or the new course: Steps that
Matter, Choosing a Major, Fresh Advice
social media promo?
sharing with alumni network? (LinkedIn!)
email marketing to students?
Instavideo Did you know?
So much more!
31. STEAL THESE IDEAS
SOCIAL LOW HANGING FRUIT
#TBT
Holidays
Best of on social/web
Click to Tweet
Boosting Facebook posts and
using Facebook video
Infographic of metrics of success
Quoted/featured in the news