

Content Strategy Insights
Larry Swanson
Conversations with content strategists from all crafts (strategy, design, engineering, operations, etc.) and backgrounds (enterprise, agencies, UX, content design, technical communication, marketing, SEO, publishing, journalism, etc.).
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Mar 6, 2019 • 33min
Neal Sofian
Neal Sofian leads a company that builds conversation bots for the health-care industry. Using algorithms, machine learning, and contextual storytelling, they create complex, customized content on the fly to help people change their health behavior. https://ellessmedia.com/csi/neal-sofian/

Feb 21, 2019 • 30min
Jennifer Bourn
Jennifer Bourn helps small businesses create systems to plan and create their content. She also helps other small-agency owners streamline and systematize their operations. https://ellessmedia.com/csi/jennifer-bourn/

Feb 5, 2019 • 27min
Kronda Adair
Kronda Adair helps mission-driven businesses succeed online. Helping her clients authentically share their expertise as digital content is a key part of this mission. https://ellessmedia.com/csi/kronda-adair/

Jan 25, 2019 • 29min
Jenn Marie
Jenn Marie helps small businesses share their authentic selves online. She focuses on personality-driven content marketing that helps her clients start conversations with their customers and prospects. https://ellessmedia.com/csi/jenn-marie/

Jan 14, 2019 • 28min
John Sechrest
John Sechrest helps startups tell their stories. By managing the narrative around their startup idea, founders can improve their odds of raising money, attracting the right talent, and – most importantly – connecting with the right customers. https://ellessmedia.com/csi/john-sechrest/

Oct 24, 2018 • 29min
Andrea Zoellner
Andrea Zoellner is passionate about making the web more accessible and usable. With clear UX copywriting and a single-minded focus on the user, she helps people succeed online.

Oct 15, 2018 • 35min
Heather Lloyd-Martin
When the field of SEO emerged in the late 1990s, Heather Lloyd-Martin was one of the first writers to focus on search engines. She's still at it 20 years later – writing, coaching, training, and consulting on SEO copywriting.

Sep 13, 2018 • 28min
Kate Saul & Andre Francisco
Kate Saul & Andre Francisco work at 18F, an federal government agency that helps other agencies improve their digital services, including web content. Soon after the agency's founding they discovered that they would benefit from having a master reference guide - the 18F Content Guide - for both their organization and their clients. The 18F Content Guide helps federal government agencies keep their web content consistent and usable.

Sep 4, 2018 • 29min
Shelley Keith
Shelley Keith is a digital strategist with Modern Tribe. Her pragmatic approach to content governance aligns stakeholders on the "why" behind content decisions and uses techniques like "guerrilla governance" to get the content outcomes that executives demand.

Aug 16, 2018 • 30min
Simon Thompson
Simon Thompson runs an agency in Melbourne, Australia, that focuses on helping B2B businesses add podcasts to their content marketing mix.


