Rahel Anne Bailie

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Job Title:
Content strategy consultant
Company Name:
Intentional Design Inc.
About Me:
I help content-driven companies create and better manage their communication strategies. Because I focus on performance improvement, I start with an analysis of business goals and ensure that any initiatives or improvements suggested will support those goals.
Website:
http://www.intentionaldesign.ca

Rahel Anne Bailie's Blog

Poor usability marring site experience sparks thoughts on ROI

I just received an email from New Media BC asking me to update my profile. The link went to their site, but from there, I was stymied. As a user experience professional, I was rather offput at the lack of intuitiveness of the site. After all, these folks are "in the biz", so to speak. Surely they've heard of user-centered… Continue

Posted on August 21st, 2008 at 4:30pm — No Comments (Add)

Anyone going to LavaCon?

The conference designed especially for technical communication managers, LavaCon, is coming up this November in Honolulu. this year's theme is Advancing the Art and Science of Technical Communication and Project Management, and is presented in conjunction with the local chapter of the Project Management Institute. It's an interesting way to get a perspective from another profession that has a fair bit of relevance to techcomm managers doing p… Continue

Posted on August 18th, 2008 at 12:38am — No Comments (Add)

Content as asset - and why its management is more critical than ever

Content producers are coming into interesting times, to adapt the popular saying, with the dawning of The Age of Content. Industry is discovering that content is not a liability, but an asset, and just like the assets that sit, like the inventory in their warehouses, but in their databases. These assets have value, and as anything in a company that has value, these assets must be stored, managed, and valued, and possibly insured, so that it can be measured, monetized, guarded. The rules around c… Continue

Posted on March 6th, 2008 at 12:14pm — No Comments (Add)

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At 1:30am on August 18th, 2008, ClappingTree said…
Hey, Rahel! Great to see you in Ning. Your photo looks really great here. If only we'd meet face-to-face one day!

By the way, if you want to leave a comment for me, click on my ClappingTrees icon and go to my page. :-) Then I'll receive an email notification.
At 11:19pm on May 13th, 2008, Rahel Anne Bailie said…
Hi Steven - I didn't see you at the conference. Mind you, I didn't get to much of it. I'm in the midst of a very demanding project that came close to preventing me from even presenting my session. But I did make it. Despite being scheduled across from some pretty heavy competition (I wondered if anyone would even be there!), I had a full room, and everyone but one person stayed till the end, and a number of people asked questions after the session. Interestingly enough, no one asked questions in the session, really, but I suspect that no one wanted to admit in front of others to being handed the hot potato of SharePoint and told to go forth and create technical documentation with it. Overall, I was happy with it. My slides are posted to www.slideshare.net. Tom Johnson did a podcast interview with me, which you can catch at his I'd Rather Be Writing site, and I was on www.mytechnologylawyer.com radio with B. Noz Urbina, Scott Abel, and Emma Hamer, talking about content management. I, of course, talked about content convergence and integration.
At 3:30pm on May 13th, 2008, Steven Brooks said…
Hi Rahel, I didn't get to see your presentation at DCW. :-( My mgmt wanted me to see some specific tool sessions, so I was at the Adobe AIR session during yours. How did yours go?

I'm currently working on my conf notes for my mgmt. In the process, I'm finding several other blogs where people are reporting on what they learned at the sessions. It's interesting to see the differences between what another person received from the same session I attended, based on the difference in the amount of experience and time in the CM field.

Steve
At 10:34am on May 12th, 2008, B. Noz Urbina said…
Hi Rahel, great to see you at doctrain west!

People can check the interview we did on-demand at MyTechnologyLawyer.com
At 10:01am on May 5th, 2008, Harjot Dhodi said…
Hi Rahel!

Please check this out under following sections of http://harjotdhodi.googlepages.com/technicalwritingcourses

Proofreader's and Editor's Symbols
Single Sourcing

Regards,

Harjot
At 8:47am on March 28th, 2008, Steven Brooks said…
ah... "discombobulated" ... a favorite word in my family. My children laugh when I use it.
At 6:33pm on March 27th, 2008, Steven Brooks said…
I'm headed to DocTrainWest and looking forward to the event. I plan to attend your "Content Management Successes" session.
At 4:18pm on March 27th, 2008, Renee McTavish said…
I've been a member for 60 minutes and already posted to the Flare group. :D This is a pretty cool place!
At 12:58pm on March 27th, 2008, Tamara Chapman said…
Thanks. I'll check them out. I was looking at the site week, but it was pretty slow. I had subscribed to the RSS feed instead. Does look interesting. Thanks for the invite.
At 12:15pm on March 27th, 2008, Joel Butts said…
Absolutely. Hey BTW...I really got lots out of the conference. I pumped adn up on my soap box here about all we learned. Cheers. -jb
 
 

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