Excerpt from:  Website Content Strategy
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June 16, 2005

Now More Than Ever You Need A Content Strategy

RSS puts new demand on content creation and messaging

Ever see a comment and think "Rats! I wish I'd said that?"

"Understanding your customer’s content requirements is tougher than the technical challenges associated with syndication.

It’s relatively easy to create feeds. It’s very difficult to create a feed that a segment of your audience cannot live without - and that’s the objective.

This challenge is at the heart of *all* content challenges, but with syndication it’s particularly more important because RSS is truly an “opt-in” medium.

If a feed is not useful, the subscriber will leave.

Bill French of Myst in his interview with InkBlot

by Sally Falkow
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