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Putting Intelligence in Content Delivery

Ann Rockley – CEO, The Rockley Group

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The Rockley Group• More than 15 years’ experience in

Healthcare• Clinical• Labeling• Promotional• Industry experts• Structured content strategy• Content reuse• Structured content management

systems• Content globalization strategy• Multichannel delivery

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Ann Rockley @arockley

• CEO and Founder, The Rockley Group• Creator of the concept of intelligent

content• Founder, Intelligent Content

Conference• Known as the "mother of content

strategy"• Forefront of intelligent content

strategy, reuse, structured content management, multichannel delivery (Web, eBook, mobile, print)

• Passionately committed to defining and sharing industry best practices

• Master of Information Science• Fellow of the Society for Technical

Communication

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Too often publish good high-quality content, but it gets lost

in the mass of available content

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Metadata, SEO, navigation are important but not enough

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Need to provide dynamic content

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Dynamic content is assembled

on-demand based on user profile, preferences, purchase

history, or online behavior

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What they need, when they need it, on the device of their choosing and in their desired

format

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Why dynamic content?• Customers are unable to find what they

need• Too much information• Don’t know what they need• Content is too generic

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Examples of dynamic content

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Dynamic policies and procedures• 100,000 pages of policy and procedure

documentation in two languages• 29 different types of employee roles• Initially created web-based versions of the

tasks with multiple links (employees got lost in all the branching)• Next they created multiple copies of the

task customized for each role (huge amount of work, high degree of error when updates are required)

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The dynamic solution• Dynamic content intranet portal• Employee profiles that identify role• Employee requests content, the system

configures the content to match their profile• Employees can create their own workspace

to store frequently used content for fast retrieval• Alerts for changed/new content

automatically pushed to employee based on role

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Result• Customized content that meets employee

needs• Significantly reduced authoring workload• Reduction of errors

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Financial certification program• 6 courses, 3 mastery levels• Each course 700-1000 pages (paper is still

common in financial materials)• Goal: Online university

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The dynamic solution

• Identify what students need to know• Create an information model outlining

the topics and mastery levels• Restructure courses based on model• Single source topics from a database• Implement a Learning Management

System• Learner logon enables learner to log on

and receive customized dynamic content

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Results• Customized learning• Reduced maintenance for content• Can do more with less• Was able to implement a brand-new course

for a new type of learner in less than three weeks

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Customized software• Customer can customize the software• Add, delete, or change name of fields and

windows• Content is very generic which is confusing

to users• Customers are paying for customizable

software, unhappy with the generic content

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Solution• Enable the system administrator to

customize the software• Software automatically builds a table with

the new values (window names, fields)• The dynamic delivery engine references the

table and does an “on-the-fly” substitution of variables• Content is customized to the customer• Content is customized to the employee

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Results• Customer has customized software and

customized content• Happy customer• More effective customer employees

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What’s different?• Intelligent content (self aware)• Content as application not delivery• Content as data, not as BLOBs• Ability to identify and access any piece of

content based on structure• Ability to assemble content on demand

based on queries

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More than just full-text retrieval• Based on metadata• Based on structure• Based on content• Faceted navigation (navigation based on

categories or tags)

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How dynamic content happens

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Identifying customer needs• Thorough audience analysis• Know what they need• When they need it• In what form they need it• At what level content is dynamic (topic,

section, paragraph, sentence, word)

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Supporting personalized content• Personas• Metadata• Models• Business rules

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Develop personas• A persona is a profile of a typical user• This persona lets the designers design

content to meet their needs.

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Example persona: Financial• Side counter• Many years experience• Could be asked about almost anything• Need to know fastest way to respond to

customer needs (e.g., open an account, apply for a credit card)

• Procedural information is primary, policy is secondary

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Designing metadata and user profiles• The content management system uses

metadata to identify content that is appropriate for a particular user. • Static personalized content is created by

defining user business rules then automatically building the personalized static content that matches the business rules• Dynamic personalized content is tied to the

user login. Content is dynamically assembled to meet the needs of the customer.

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Metadata• Metadata is critical• Metadata is matched with the customer

profile and the customer selection to select the content to display• Without sufficient metadata dynamic

delivery is not possible

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Example metadata• Role• Product• Version• Market• Region• Language

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Models• Determine where content changes based on

metadata• Information product (document)• Topic• Element (e.g., paragraph)• Variable• Content must be structured and tagged to

support these requirements

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Business rules• Business rules match the customer profile,

add the customer request/selection, and determines what to display

• Business rules example• If Location = United States select US• If Language = English display English else

display Spanish• If Security permission = Level 2 display

<= Level 2• If Role = Side Counter display Side

Counter

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Technology requirements• Component content management system• Store and manage content objects• Reuse• Metadata• Workflow• Translation• Reports

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Technology requirements• Component content management system

(CCMS)• Dynamic delivery engine

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Technology cont.• Dynamic delivery• Integrate with CCMS• Automatically assemble content based on

business rules and metadata• Provide user functionality to identify and

create own “workspace”• Publish content to appropriate channel

(web/mobile, ePUB, PDF)

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Technology available• Ingeniux, CMS• Mekon, DITAWeb• SDL, LiveContent Reach• Suite Solutions, SuiteShare

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Summary• Dynamic content provides an enhanced

customer experience• Dynamic content is supported by: Personas Metadata Models Business rules Appropriate technology

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Questions?

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