content strategy on an encyclopaedia: when less is actually less

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Ida Jacksons presentation at CS Forum 2013. You can read a written summary of the presentation here: http://livestream.csforum2013.com/articles/milk-and-honey-what-are-yours

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“You fix.”

Editing an encyclopedia= content strategy.

1. Limit your topics

2. Limit your authors egos

We know what you’re reading.

What´s your onion fly?

The paper encyclopediawas the web before the web.

Google is everyone’s bookshelf.

What can you do for the Web?

Compete less.

First edition: 1906

People die. Countries don’t.

“He was in a relationship with LarsAndersen” vs. “He had a male friend”

Find your “damsel in distress”

Rewrite your honey to make it better.

Some questions

• Do you have any onion flies? • Do you have any damsels in distress? • What’s your milk? What’s your honey?• Where can you stop competing for

attention?

Use Google translate to read some content : http://snl.no

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