Content Strategy for Fun and Profit

Post date: 2022-05-13 05:14:02

I asked a question about careers for disaffected librarians several months back. I am still a disaffected librarian and have no plans to leave, but I do need help creating a professional development plan for a skillset I'd like to develop.

I recently saw a content strategist job that is 1000% up my alley and makes me think this might be a good field for me. Conveniently, the skills required would be really useful for my current organization, so I'd love to start developing them.

I started my career as a web librarian and just know enough about IA/UX/content strategy to be dangerous, but it's been 8 years since I've really been immersed in this stuff. I'm not a cataloger or digital archivist, but I have passing familiarity with those fields.

So: I want to learn to strategically wrangle large amounts of digital content. What books should I read, what classes/tutorials should I complete, what technologies should I learn? I've got the recommendation of Abby Covert's work - what other professional resources might be of interest? Any other advice is welcome.

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