September 23rd, 2009 by David Poteet

Takeaways from David’s EdUI Presentation on Twitter

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Takeaway tweets from David's "Beyond Blah Blah" workshop at EdUI on September 21, 2009.

Susan Evans susantevans on my way to uva's newcomb hall and "beyond blah blah" - perhaps a great content for the web revival @edui #edui

Susan Evans susantevans David Poteet (NewCity) Blah blah content does not engage my imagination or my emotion - ordinary words can change someone's life #edui

Piero Tintori pierotintori @lbrunjes I've arrived Just in the "Beyond Blah Blah: Creating Great Content for the Web" workshop... it will be great to meet up #edui

Susan Evans susantevans Gerry McGovern's book Killer Web Content: "People come to your web site RUNNING." #edui

Susan Evans susantevans Survey your carewords - the words that make your customers act on your website. http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/ #edui

Susan Evans michaelherndon #edui 'beyond blah blah', currently exploring interesting methods of determining the importance of various content for a site.

amptoolsnet #edui kj sessions method +1 for organizing site content with users/audience and internal staff.

Susan Evans susantevans Use a bottom up approach to organize content - take the big bucket and figure out natural groupings of interest to your visitors #edui

Macelle42 marcelle42 @susantevans I love that idea -- i tend to do it with post-its on a blank wall. #edui

Susan Evans susantevans information scent theory - your readers are like bees. http://bit.ly/KJp5P #edui

Susan Evans susantevans write for scent. 5-7 word links are optimal; each click leads to more specific info; trigger words I click on should be on next page #edui

Susan Evans susantevans write for scent. don't let clever kill clear; use your search logs to mine for trigger words #edui

Susan Evans susantevans @marcelle42 that's what we did here too! david poteet's session is right on and extremely useful #edui

Mike McCready MikeMcCready RT @susantevans: Letting Go of the Words - write visually. One sentence paragraphs are ok . Use lists. http://tinyurl.com/yo5hgf #edui

David Mulder davidlmulder It's lunch break at #edui. Content session with @davidpoteet has been very fun and informative. Will recap later

Susan Evans susantevans We need to write for multiple temperaments. Waiting for your Cat to Bark by Bryan & Jeffrey Eisenberg http://www.cattobark.com/ #edui

Piero Tintori pierotintori #edui use verbs not nouns to capture people's imagination, and get past their "blah blah" filter

Piero Tintori pierotintori #edui The Hail Stanford Hail videos are an excellent examples of they type of video universities should published http://bit.ly/B2zvN

Susan Evans susantevans Ernest Hemmingway's Iceberg Theory: http://bit.ly/Q56Jg #edui

David Poteet davidpoteet had great fun with everyone in Beyond Blah Blah today at #edui thanks!