In Conclusion
I began the first section of this book by noting that our discipline has no playbook from which “content strategies” can be selected. Which is too bad, because that would be much easier. What we have instead is a collection of principles, goals, approaches, and tools.
It might be useful to think of these pieces as the axons and synapses and other physical structures of the brain. The chemical and electrical impulses that make up our thoughts zoom along and hop between these structures; they aren’t the structures themselves. In the same way, the values, approaches, and processes in this book are not “content strategy.” Content strategy is what happens in the spaces between.
Where we’re headed
Ten years ago, most “content” was either ...
