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Jeff Eaton: Content Observability in Complex Systems – Episode 212

April 21, 2025 by Larry Leave a Comment

podcast cover art for interview with Jeff Eaton, expert on content observability in complex enterprise architectures

Modern content systems are complex and abstract, presenting problems for managers who want to understand how their content is performing. At Autogram, Jeff Eaton and Karen McGrane have developed a content observability framework to address this complexity. Their framework evaluates the composition, quality, health, and effectiveness of content programs to help enterprises measure the return […]

Filed Under: Digital Practice Insights (formerly Content Strategy Insights) Tagged With: content observability, content operations, content ops, enterprise architecture, Jeff Eaton

Rafaëla Ellensburg: Holistic, Semantic Content Engineering – Episode 191

June 10, 2024 by Larry Leave a Comment

podcast cover art for interview with Rafaëla Ellensburg, expert on content engineering and semantic metadata

Serving personalized content about thousands of products to millions of people requires a sophisticated content operation. At Albert Heijn, the big grocery store chain in the Netherlands, Rafaëla Ellensburg established a content engineering practice that lets the company deliver personalize-able omnichannel content at scale. In the process, she also created a content engineering practice guild, […]

Filed Under: Digital Practice Insights (formerly Content Strategy Insights) Tagged With: Albert Heijn, content engineering, content operations, Rafaëla Ellensburg, semantic metadata

Jeffrey MacIntyre: Orchestrating Personalized Content Experiences – Episode 189

May 29, 2024 by Larry Leave a Comment

podcast cover art for interview with Jeffrey MacIntyre, expert on orchestrating personalized content experiences

Scalable content personalization systems create huge value for businesses. Like most valuable endeavors, they’re really hard to do well. Jeffrey MacIntyre orchestrates the activities – terminology and taxonomy work, metadata strategy, information architecture, and more – that help businesses build content operations that deliver the customer-focused experiences that consumers expect. We talked about: two trends […]

Filed Under: Digital Practice Insights (formerly Content Strategy Insights) Tagged With: content operations, information architecture, Jeffrey MacIntyre, metadata, personalization

Tuija Riekkinen: Scaling Content and Design Operations – Episode 185

April 15, 2024 by Larry Leave a Comment

podcast cover art for interview with Tuija Riekkinen, expert at scaling content and design operations

Tuija Riekkinen brings a unique perspective to scaling both content and design operations, as well as other digital initiatives. She has applied her holistic and pragmatic enterprise product management skills at organizations like IKEA, where she has worked on both their design system and content management system. Tuija is a persuasive advocate of keeping design […]

Filed Under: Digital Practice Insights (formerly Content Strategy Insights) Tagged With: content management systems, content operations, design systems, IKEA, Tuija Riekkinen

Barbara Blythe: Content Design Operations at Cisco – Episode 181

March 6, 2024 by Larry Leave a Comment

podcast cover art for interview with Barbara Blythe, content design operations expert at Cisco

Most enterprises and software companies now have design systems, and many have content operations and/or design operations teams. At Cisco, Barbara Blythe works on the content design operations team. She focuses on sharing content guidance across the products she serves, enabling not only content designers but also their UX design and engineering partners to efficiently […]

Filed Under: Digital Practice Insights (formerly Content Strategy Insights) Tagged With: Barbara Blythe, content design, content design operations, content operations

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