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Content as Conversation
Janice (Ginny) Redish, Ph.D.
Redish & Associates, Inc.
Bethesda, Maryland
301−229−3039
www.redish.net
Silver Spring, MDApril 30, 2011
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© 2011, Janice (Ginny) Redish Writing Web Content that Works Slide 2
Tell your latest web story
When?
Why?
What were you trying to do or what were you looking for?
To satisfy their goals
Content
Information
To do a task
People just want to
answer their question
do a task
solve a problemFlickr cc photo by russelljsmith
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© 2011, Janice (Ginny) Redish Writing Web Content that Works Slide 3
Navigation and search are critical
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© 2011, Janice (Ginny) Redish Writing Web Content that Works Slide 4
Good, clear design is critical
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Technology that works is critical
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© 2011, Janice (Ginny) Redish Writing Web Content that Works Slide 6
But they all support the content
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Content = conversation
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On most sites, the site visitor starts the conversation.
Theme =content as conversation
How well does your web site converse?
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Lost. No problem. Use the computer!
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© 2011, Janice (Ginny) Redish Writing Web Content that Works Slide 9
A few guidelines for good conversations Imagine the conversation
as you design.
Don't hog the conversation. Take turns.
Set the context first.
Answer your site visitors' questions.
Talk to your site visitors.
Evaluate your site through personasand their conversations.
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Imagine the conversation as you design
Which link should we click on?
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http://www.tricare.mil/
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Old CDC page; CDC has revised this and most other health information, following the content as conversation model.
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http://familydoctor.org
Don't hog theconversation.Take turnsHeadings are the site visitor's turns in the conversation.
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Approved fumigation with methyl bromide at normal atmospheric pressure, in accordance with the following procedure, upon arrival at the port of entry, is hereby prescribed as a condition of importation for shipments of yams from foreign countries.
How would you say this information in a conversation?
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Did you say something like this?
newcontext = given, known then
If you are importing yams, [someone] must fumigate them when they arrive at the port of entry.
To fumigate yams, [someone] must use this procedure:
Clark and Haviland, Comprehension and the given-new contract, In R. Freedle (Ed.), Discourse production and comprehension, 1975, Erlbaum, 1-40.
Set the context first
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Answer your site visitors' questions
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Oh! I thinkI like that bag, but I wonder…
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Talk to your site visitors
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© 2011, Janice (Ginny) Redish Writing Web Content that Works Slide 21
Evaluate through your personasand their conversations
Do usability testing!
Even before that:
Walk your personas through their conversations.
See the site through their eyes with their words.
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© 2011, Janice (Ginny) Redish Writing Web Content that Works Slide 22
Think "conversation."
Write conversations.
Facilitate conversations.
Evaluate through conversations.
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Morgan Kaufmann / Elsevier, 2007
Ginny Redish
301 229 3039
Thank you