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CONFAB IS OVER, BUT THE IDEAS LIVE ON

By Clinton Forry on May 18, 2011

Confab has come and gone for 2011. Cake was served. Sessions were attended. Andtornado warnings were endured.

Now, we take to the streets (or our desks) to tackle content with a renewed vigor.

You are a Prodigious Set of Note-Takers

The volume of liveblogs and recaps from Confab is seriously impressive.

We offer our most sincere thanks for sharing your thoughtful notes and summaries. It’s especially satisfying to see Confab presentations distilled into these potent posts. (If this were a college course, we’d proudly be handing out “A” grades right now.)

If you missed a sessions or just want to compare/review notes, check out this list of posts from Confab attendees:

Overall Conference Recaps

Confab: Day 1 and Day 2 

Recaps from Beehive PR by John Schneider and Bridget Monroe Nelson

5 things I'm thankful for: The #confab edition by Kristen Green

500 Confab Tweets from Day 1 (PDF) by Contentini

Dear Confab: Thanks for the wings! by James Callan

My #Confab reality check by Katie Cohen

On Confab, Conflict, and Collaboration by Sara Wachter-Boettcher

Confab 2011 by Kjersti Ehrie

Content (Strategy) is King at Confab 2011 by Wiredrive

How to: Clean Up Your Sticky Content Problems by Heather Rast

Confab 2011: the first day in 20 tweets and Confab 2011: Tuesday in 20 Tweets by Fiona Cullinan

Higher Ed Takeaways from Confab 2011: The Content Strategy Conference by Rick Allenand Georgy Cohen

CONFAB 2011: We had our cake (and ate it too) by Susan Bond

Confab Impressions Part I: The Search Haters by James Mathewson

Confabulous Quotables by Corey Mahoney

Strategy is a VERB, and other lessons learned at ConFab by Debbie Williams

10 Things That Stunk About Confab by Matthew Grocki

Impressions of Confab: A Designer Visits Content Strategists by Chris Detzi *

Content Strategy Comes of Age: Five Lessons from Confab by Arjun Basu *

Session-specific notes and recaps

The Skinny on Groupon’s Content Strategy by Confab presenter Joe Pulizzi

Confab 2011: What Are Words For? by Confab presenter Erika Hall

What Content Creators Want by Confab workshop presenter Ron Ploof *

It’s Time to Starting Treating Your Content Like a Business Asset by Kate Robinson *

A series of Simplenote Confab liveblogs have been posted by Brian James Kirk

By Sadia Latifi:

• Confab Session Wrap: Selling Content Strategy
• Confab Session Wrap: Curation - Beyond the Buzzword

By Marisa Peacock

• Attendees Learn Why Content Matters at #ConFab 2011
• We Love Content Strategy! Here's Why! #confab
• Telling Stories, Developing Strategies for Content #confab

By Frank Marquardt:

• Confab Session Wrap: Content Rules
• Confab Session Wrap: Inside the Groupon Content Machine
• Confab Session Wrap: Eat Media Hip Hop Content Strategy
• Confab Session Wrap: The New New Content Landscape

By Laura Creekmore:

• Curation: Beyond the Buzzword
• How to Create a Data-Driven Content Strategy
• Testing Content
• Johns Hopkins Testing Content
• Ann Handley of Marketing Profs: Embrace That You Are a Publisher
• Jeff Cram: Learning to Love Your CMS
• Christine Perfetti: Essential Techniques for Measuring Your Content’s Success
• Rachel Lovinger: Make Your Content Nimble
• Launching another salvo in the content strategy-UX war
• Confab 2011 Wrapup: I Find My People

By Arienne Holland:

• How To Create a Social Network Content Strategy: ConFab 2011
• Content Is a Business Asset: ConFab 2011
• Put the Content in Content Strategy: ConFab 2011
• What Is Data-Informed Content Strategy? ConFab 2011
• How To Test Content: ConFab 2011
• Why Facebook Likes Content Strategy: ConFab 2011

By Krista Stevens:

• Message Matters: Margot Bloomstein Confab 2011
• What Are Words For? Erika Hall: Confab 2011
• Making Sense of the New (New) Content Landscape: Erin Kissane Confab 2011
• A Web Designed for Readers: Mandy Brown Confab 2011
• Kristina Halvorson’s Keynote: Confab 2011

Confab 2011 opening remarks

View more presentations from Confab: The Content Strategy Conference

Confab Latino Link - May 9, 2011

View more presentations from Joe Kutchera

The Digital Deca: 10 Management Truths for the Web Age eBook

View more presentations from WelchmanPierpoint

What Are Words For?

View more presentations from Erika Hall

Johns Hopkins Medicine & the Healthcare Content Conundrum: Aligning Business Strategy with User Goals

View more presentations from Aaron Watkins

Message Matters: Confab 2011

View more presentations from Margot Bloomstein

Stealth Content Strategy (#confab) on Prezi

Data informed content strategy (1) clare o'brien - confab

View more presentations from Clare O'Brien

Writing Vibrant, Compelling Copy

View more presentations from Ginny Redish

Love Thy Geek: Working In And Amongst Web Teams

View more presentations from RellyAB

Learning to Love your CMS

View more presentations from ISITEDesign

Make Your Content Nimble

View more presentations from Rachel Lovinger

Actual downloads of other presentations are on sharepoint.