Let’s talk about text
Recently I was asked to answer the following question about content: "What’s the best piece of advice you would give someone looking to make their enterprise content more strategic?" I looked at previous writings of mine, used some draft sentences from the book I am currently finishing (Being Dialogic), summoned my enterprise-grade wording and came up with
An About Page With a Heart
As trivial as writing an About page might seem, it is not. On the Web, our words and the messages we send through writing are the threads that weave the fabrics of our own shared cyberspaces. From there, the process of writing an About page gets a much needed calibration of perspective: You are weaving words in an
Write, Mark-up and Stay Interconnected
I have just added a whole new part to my course Content Writing in the Semantic Web where I talk about the importance and, as a Semantic Web lover, the beauty, of Linked Data and its relation to web writing and content creation and ideation. From my perspective, as a text weaver on the Web, Linked Data
If Web Writing Had a Muse …
Does writing in cyberspace have a muse, and if yes, what does it look like? What is it that inspires web writing and how is a web text different from other forms of creative expression? And what if there was a bridge connecting the understanding of the Web as a giant repository of our collective memory, to
Knowledge Soup for the Soul
Thinking about how digital texts fit into the bigger picture of us building richly interconnected informational spaces to embed knowledge in them, I ended up before a knowledge soup. Knowledge Representation and a Soup It is in The Challenge of Knowledge Soup where computer scientist John F. Sowa writes about knowledge and how difficult it is to represent
Weaving Linked Data into Texts with WordLift
Innovations do happen at the intersections. One such innovation happened at the intersection between SEO, Content writing and the Semantic Web. It is called WordLift. Below are my notes and thoughts about the experience I had with WordLift, going down the rabbit hole of linking, linking and
Be Concerned with Doing Good Work
I know many writers (my younger self included) out there who struggle with creating web content the way they think it should be and not the way they feel and know in their heart it is to be. This shouldn't be the case. The Web is abounding with examples of integrity (Cluetrain Manifesto) and care (Time Well Spent) and