How to overcome your creative blocks
FREE WEBINAR
Blank pages, blank screens… They can trigger creative blocks. Simon Fairbanks will help keep your creative cogs turning.
Explaining experience design and content design to anyone
FREE WEBINAR
Experience design? Content design? Dana Rock will help you understand and explain each concept to stakeholders.
Recruiting students as social media influencers
FREE WEBINAR
Join Mikki Collins to learn how to recruit students as content creators, match the students to the right projects, and keep them motivated.
Borrowing from ethnographers
FREE WEBINAR
Join Florence Largilliere to deep-dive into qualitative research, looking at ethnography and what it can bring to our audience insights.
Personalisation: making content meaningful
FREE WEBINAR
Join Dana Rock in this free, online webinar to discover how personalisation can be used as a tool to drive a deeper connection with your audience.
Making your content measurement work for you - Webinar
Content roles face pressure to demonstrate value through measurable impact, effectiveness, and return on investment, prompting a need to prioritise useful metrics. This webinar aims to guide participants in rethinking their approach to content success tracking, emphasising the importance of assessing meaningful factors aligned with audience and institutional needs.
Developing a content strategy to drive deeper alumni and supporter engagement
Learn how to create a content strategy that will drive even deeper engagement with your alumni and supporter communities
Beyond surveys: how to create smarter and richer audience insights
FREE WEBINAR
Join Florence Largilliere to unlock deeper audience insights with practical strategies for smarter research.
Copywriting for course content
Join Dana Rock to learn how to write clearer, more compelling copy for your course pages, taking away everything that you need to consider when crafting your content and help you to sharpen your copywriting skills.
Creating a compelling content strategy statement
A content strategy statement is a single and simple overview of your content strategy. Join Tracy Playle to learn why they’re important, how to create one and enrol others around it.
Content strategy 101: what should yours include?
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Creating a content strategy for your school, college or university can feel like a daunting task. There’s so much that you could include, how do you even know where to start? In this workshop, author of The Connected Campus and founder of ContentEd, Tracy Playle, will take content strategy back to basics to help you as you decide what yours will and won’t include.
What we’ll cover
What a content strategy is and the purposes that it might serve to a school, college or university
What your content strategy could include, and what those outputs might look like
How to decide the scope of your strategy and what components you’ll include
Who should attend?
Directors and Heads of strategy, marketing, communications and brand
Team leaders and managers
Internal communication professionals
Anyone involved in the development of content strategies
Your facilitator
Your session will be facilitated by Tracy Playle, CEO, Chief Content Strategist and Coach at Pickle Jar Communications Ltd and the author of The Connected Campus: Creating a content strategy to drive engagement with your university (2020).
For two decades Tracy has worked in higher education communications, marketing, digital engagement and content strategy. Initially working in-house with the University of Warwick, Tracy founded her consultancy 15 years ago and has since worked with around 300 education institutions in more than 30 countries to help them evolve their approach to content strategy, delivery and management.
She is also an accredited ontological coach, having trained and been part of the leader teams with the Accomplishment Coaching New York Intensive coach training programme (2019-21), and as a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF).
Tracy now spends much of her time supporting individual leaders and teams to become more creative, collaborative and empowered in their work, removing the barriers to creating outstanding experiences and campaigns in and for their organisations.
Tracy is an international speaker and a CASE Crystal Apple award winner and laureate, a former chair of the CIPR’s Education and Skills Sector Group, and the founder of ContentEd and Utterly Content.
Alongside her consultancy work and leadership of Pickle Jar Communications, Tracy also runs a private coaching practice (www.tracyplayle.com).
Being the brand: a transformational workshop for individuals and teams
We produce campaigns and content to create and showcase our organisation’s brands. But how do we connect our brand and brand values to the ways that we work, and how we work with each other?
Being the brand: a free half-day transformational workshop for individuals and teams
We produce campaigns and content to create and showcase our organisation’s brands. But how do we connect our brand and brand values to the ways that we work, and how we work with each other?
Experience design 101
A lunch-and-learn style session, to come together with other professionals to develop our understanding of experience design, what it is, why it matters, and how to apply the principles of it to our work.
Leading content strategy in your school, college or university - Roundtable
A lunch-and-learn style session, to come together with senior-level peers in order to discuss content strategy from the leadership perspective and ensure that you feel confident and empowered in leading the team responsible for it in your institution.