This document discusses content strategy for social media platforms. It addresses what types of data to include, how much data is needed, who will receive the data, how to display it, when to deliver it, and where the data is located. The types of data that work well for social media include rich text, photos, videos, audio, and PDFs. Content should be accessible on desktop and mobile browsers as well as through apps and other channels. Strategies are outlined for organizing large amounts of content and improving the findability and discoverability of data.
2. 1. What kind of Data?
2. How much Data?
3. Who receives the data?
4. How to show?
5. When to deliver?
6. Where is the data?
CONTENT STRATEGY CONCERNS
Social media are computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation
and sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other forms of
expression via virtual communities and networks.
3. Content attributes:
Atomic data unit (post) must have a name(Title)
and should be accessed through a Canonical URL
Viewable in a browser / smart phone
No need for a 3rd party application to access/open
Unable to carry virus or harmful scripts
DATA TYPES (POSTS)
4. DATA TYPES (POSTS)
Rich Text
Photos
Videos
Podcasts / Audio
PDF
Word / Excel / PowerPoint
Content types:
5. Content exposure:
We see 4,000 to 10,000 ads a day *
We spend 2 hours a day on social media *
Information overload
WHY LESS IS MORE ?
Exposure time:
1 minute to read a books page
1 sec to watch an Instagram photo
0.1 sec to see a logo ad
7. HOW MUCH DATA ?
Single page Websites
Less than 10 Pages
10 to 100 Pages
100 to 1000 pages
1K to 10 K
10 k to 10 million +
Amount of data: Solution:
Anchor links
flat structure
2-Level Menu
Tags & Categories
internal Search
more solutions needed
8. WHO RECEIVES THE DATA?
Healthy people
Disabled people
Human: Machine:
Crawlers
Ping robots
9. HOW ? (SUPPLY CHANNELS)
PC Browsers
Mobile Browsers
Mobile App (api)
messengers (Inline / Instant view)
Capturing sites : (Pocket / instapaper / evernote)
Printed papers (css media print)
Search Engines
Feed Readers (RSS XML format)
Social Networks (G plus / Facebook/ twitter)
Emails
braille readers
21. WHEN TO DELIVER?
Instant feed
Hourly categorized pages
Daily Editorial Posts
Weekly mail
Human: Machine:
Ping robots (instantly)
Google (daily/ Weekly)
Feed readers (daily)
22. By google
By human
WHERE IS THE DATA?
Findability
By google (SEO)
By human (IXD)
Discoverability
23. Title, canonical URL for content
HTML5 Tags
Design for accessibility
SemanticWeb meta tags (schema.org)
Sitemap
Internal linking (hashtags , relevant posts)
media metatags
XML feeds
WHERE IS THE DATA?
improve findability
24. Relevant posts
Put content in 404 pages
#Tag pages accessible by inline tags
Editorial posts page
Posts Share ability
Connect users (following)
Readability & Usability improvement results in better
discoverability
WHERE IS THE DATA?
improve discoverability