Archive for the ‘Content Strategist’ Category

The DocMashup

One valuable instance of a Knowledge Mashup is the concept of a documentation mashup, or DocMashup—a name that brevity and convention demands. Basically, this type of knowledge mashup serves as an aggregation of content from all resource types near and far for a product or service, including the importing and updating of the traditional static [...]

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February 17, 2010 · Michael Hiatt · One Comment
Posted in: Content Strategist, DocMashup, documentation mashup, Information, Information management, Knowledge management, knowledge mashup, Mashups, technical communicator

Competing in the Information Age

Competition drives all life on Earth. It is the invisible hand of markets and the engine of evolution. In our economic world, we see the traditional competition for jobs: Younger employees versed in new technologies forcing out workers with older skills, experienced employees competing with new graduates for fewer jobs, new technologies and services driving [...]

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December 11, 2009 · Michael Hiatt · 9 Comments
Posted in: Cloud Computing, Content Strategist, Contextual Data, Information Age, Information management, Knowledge management, Mashups, technical communicator

Adapting to the Information Age

The times they are a changin’. I’ve been listening to a lot of Bob Dylan lately. My fifteen year-old son finds him cool. It’s a strange revolving world. Regardless of my motives, the Bob prediction of the ‘60s reappears 50 years later with the same growing urgency. Socially, economically, and technologically, the symptoms and repercussions [...]

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December 7, 2009 · Michael Hiatt · 2 Comments
Tags: , , ,  Â· Posted in: Content Strategist, Information, Information Age, Information management, Knowledge management, Real-Time Web, Semantic Web

Evolving as a Content Strategist

The Age of Information is here. The economic, political, and global landscape is changing quickly. As web programmers and information developers (or those with shared skills), we search for a way to survive and prosper. We know that we need to recreate ourselves to be self-sustaining, innovative, and adaptable. We fight fears of corporate downsizing [...]

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November 30, 2009 · Michael Hiatt · 9 Comments
Posted in: Cloud Computing, Content Strategist, Information management, Knowledge management, Linked data, Mashups