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Brewing a better content strategy through single sourcing (podcast) The Content Strategy Experts - Scriptorium
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In episode 162 of The Content Strategy Experts Podcast, Bill Swallow and Christine Cuellar discuss the benefits of single sourcing as part of your content strategy through the example of two things they love: coffee and beer.
“We know companies that have moved away from a do-it-yourself approach because they had maybe two or three different people putting in half to almost full-time work on the publishing system and not on other facets of the company’s core business or the writing. They were simply there to keep everything working. It just blows my mind that on a scale where you have hundreds of writers contributing content, you are saying, Okay, you three people are going to be solely responsible for keeping this thing up and running so that they can produce their content, rather than having a system that’s designed to keep itself up and running.”
— Bill Swallow
Related links:
* The truth is out there
* Content as a service (white paper)
* Prerequisites for efficient content operations (podcast)
LinkedIn:
* Bill Swallow
* Christine Cuellar
Transcript:
Christine Cuellar: Welcome to the Content Strategy Experts Podcast brought to you by Scriptorium. Since 1997, Scriptorium has helped companies manage, structure, organize, and distribute content in an efficient way. In this episode, we’re talking about how you can brew a better content strategy through single sourcing. Hi, I’m Christine Cuellar.
Bill Swallow: and I’m Bill Swallow.
CC: Hey, Bill, thanks for being here today.
BS: Hey, thanks.
CC: So what I mean by brewing a better content strategy is that both Bill and I really love coffee. Right now for both of us, we’re recording it fairly early times in the morning. So actually we’re heavily reliant on coffee and other caffeinated sources to enable this conversation. Also, Bill, I know you like homebrewing beer. I like drinking beer. I have no idea how to homebrew, but I do enjoy beer as well. So we just thought that beer, coffee, drinks in general actually have some good analogies for single sourcing, which can be part of your content strategy. And it’s something that’s been coming up more and more in a lot of conversations with clients and people that are interested in content strategy so we thought this would be a good topic for today. So Bill I’m gonna kick it over to you for our first really big-picture question. First of all what is single sourcing? What do we mean when we say that? Let’s kick it off there.
BS: All right, so in a nutshell, single sourcing is writing content once for multiple purposes. It’s about as simple as you can get. It could be authoring centrally, it could be authoring collectively in a group or centrally as a single person for a wide variety of publishing needs, whether it be for different audiences, different output types, or what have you.
CC: Okay, yeah, that’s great. So how does, what are some ways that single sourcing can start to mimic drinks? Coffee, beer, any of that?
BS: We could take the example of multiple output formats. So traditionally with single sourcing, we’ve been doing that since I think the mid-90s. I remember working in. Oh, that’s based in the name. I remember working in Doc to help back in, I think it was 1996,
In episode 162 of The Content Strategy Experts Podcast, Bill Swallow and Christine Cuellar discuss the benefits of single sourcing as part of your content strategy through the example of two things they love: coffee and beer.
“We know companies that have moved away from a do-it-yourself approach because they had maybe two or three different people putting in half to almost full-time work on the publishing system and not on other facets of the company’s core business or the writing. They were simply there to keep everything working. It just blows my mind that on a scale where you have hundreds of writers contributing content, you are saying, Okay, you three people are going to be solely responsible for keeping this thing up and running so that they can produce their content, rather than having a system that’s designed to keep itself up and running.”
— Bill Swallow
Related links:
* The truth is out there
* Content as a service (white paper)
* Prerequisites for efficient content operations (podcast)
LinkedIn:
* Bill Swallow
* Christine Cuellar
Transcript:
Christine Cuellar: Welcome to the Content Strategy Experts Podcast brought to you by Scriptorium. Since 1997, Scriptorium has helped companies manage, structure, organize, and distribute content in an efficient way. In this episode, we’re talking about how you can brew a better content strategy through single sourcing. Hi, I’m Christine Cuellar.
Bill Swallow: and I’m Bill Swallow.
CC: Hey, Bill, thanks for being here today.
BS: Hey, thanks.
CC: So what I mean by brewing a better content strategy is that both Bill and I really love coffee. Right now for both of us, we’re recording it fairly early times in the morning. So actually we’re heavily reliant on coffee and other caffeinated sources to enable this conversation. Also, Bill, I know you like homebrewing beer. I like drinking beer. I have no idea how to homebrew, but I do enjoy beer as well. So we just thought that beer, coffee, drinks in general actually have some good analogies for single sourcing, which can be part of your content strategy. And it’s something that’s been coming up more and more in a lot of conversations with clients and people that are interested in content strategy so we thought this would be a good topic for today. So Bill I’m gonna kick it over to you for our first really big-picture question. First of all what is single sourcing? What do we mean when we say that? Let’s kick it off there.
BS: All right, so in a nutshell, single sourcing is writing content once for multiple purposes. It’s about as simple as you can get. It could be authoring centrally, it could be authoring collectively in a group or centrally as a single person for a wide variety of publishing needs, whether it be for different audiences, different output types, or what have you.
CC: Okay, yeah, that’s great. So how does, what are some ways that single sourcing can start to mimic drinks? Coffee, beer, any of that?
BS: We could take the example of multiple output formats. So traditionally with single sourcing, we’ve been doing that since I think the mid-90s. I remember working in. Oh, that’s based in the name. I remember working in Doc to help back in, I think it was 1996,
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