Wall-E is a lot like your CMS; he compresses all of your crappy content and tries to make it look pretty.
Web writers are often disconnected from everyone else, when in reality, “create and edit” is one small part of the content writing process.
Content strategy plans for the creation, publication, and governance of useful, usable content.
Strategy is a plan for obtaining a specific goal or result. Think about your messaging and your content requirements.
Does this content help meet our users’ goals?
This …

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Coordinating Our Efforts
Who is creating video content? Center for Nonproliferation Studies (Eduardo Fujii), Recruiting (Rob Horgan & Maureen Fura), work study students from GSIPM/GSTILE, and others.
Learning Best Practices

Tell a story! Tailor this story to your audience whether they are current and future students, alumni, and/or donors.
Interviewing Tips

Interview your subject beforehand so you have a specific story or topic you would like her to share.
Record multiple takes.
Rule of Thirds: Don’t position your subject in the center. Also, the interviewee shouldn’t look …

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miis.edu has a constituency-based navigation menu for the following groups: students, faculty & staff, alumni, and employers. These pages contain quicklinks to a variety of resources including webmail, MIIS social networks, BannerWeb, and many others. The content of each page is tailored to meet the needs of its intended audience.
We would love to hear your suggestions for making these pages more useful! Please comment and let us know if we are missing any crucial links/resources.

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These tips were provided by Rob Horgan, but I wanted to share them with all of you here.
There are tools available on YouTube which allow us to evaluate the efficacy of our videos on the MIIS channel.
The content of the MIIS YouTube channel falls into several broad categories:

CNS videos –These have a small but dedicated and regular viewership, presumably of alumni and various nonproliferation or security stakeholders . They are by far the largest contributors to the MIIS YouTube …

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Rebecca’s back!
Rebecca Walters will be helping out Kristen & Jen with various web-related needs.
Cool web stuff is happening

The alumni site (http://alumni.miis.edu) is getting a new look in the very near future
Advancement just launched the microphilanthropy site (http://globalgiving.org/miis)

New process for adding stories to MIIS Around the World
New MIIS Around the World stories should be added at the following URL: http://www.miis.edu/community/world/stories
The groups interface
Workflows are still coming, but in the meantime you can start setting up your group(s) of web authors. This is …

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