CSForum 2012, Cape Town
“What struck me most about CS Forum 2012 was how the content strategy community from right across the world showed up so wholeheartedly, absolutely determined to have a good time. There was no nitpicking, no criticism, no ugly backchannel, just total enthusiasm and support from speakers and attendees alike. Sure, I’d like to think that holding the conference at a vineyard outside Cape Town and arranging a cheetah-petting session as an official conference activity added to the charm, but ultimately CS Forum 2012 was memorable because of its warm, smart and generous people.” — Kerry-Anne Gilowey, Conference Manager, 2012
CS Forum 2012 was hosted by August Sun Projects from the 24th to 26th of October 2012 in Cape Town, South Africa.
Program resources
Conference media from CSF 2012 is centralised in Table 1. Workshop products are not available, thus not included in table.
Session | Speaker | Social Handle | Media |
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Morning keynote: You are everywhere | Kristina Halvorson |
@halvorson | Video |
Content in the age of promiscuous reuse | Rachel Lovinger | @rlovinger | Video |
HTML5 101 for content specialists | Bruce Lawson | @brucel | Video |
Afternoon keynote: Content in a write/read web | Luke Wroblewski |
@lukew | Video |
How to build SEO into content strategy | Jonathon Colman | @jcolman | Video |
Guerillas in their midst: giving people CS skills from the inside | Relly Annett-Baker |
@RellyAB | Video |
Content & cash | Melissa Rach | @melissarach | |
Empathy: Content strategy's hidden deliverable | Corey Vilhauer | @MrVilhauer | Spotlight |
Shifting content teams from single-channel to multi-channel focus | Heléne Lindsay |
@Helaine_Lindsay | |
Voice and tone: Creating content for humans | Kate Kiefer Lee | @katekiefer | |
Legal content: The final frontier for content strategy | Frances Gordon | @Simplified_SA | |
Content strategy in Brazil: Where it is now and where it’s going | Ibrahim Cesar | @ibrahimcesar | |
Making eBay’s help content helpful again | Lucie Hyde | @LucieHyde | |
Content strategy in hostile environments | Thomas Bevan |
@herdingwords | |
A funny thing happened on the way to the pattern library | Tracy Ulin |
@tracyulin | |
Compassionate content: Developing social resolution for photos on Facebook | Diane Murphy |
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Embracing your role as a change agent | Jonathan Kahn | @lucidplot | |
Integrating linguists in agile software development teams | Joaquín Moreno |
@morenodesilva | |
Visualising data: Seeing is believing | Richard Ingram | @richardjingram | |
How a university web team brought a presidential debate to life | Kate Johnson | @katedjohns | |
The mess we’re (not) in: Content strategy in the corporate environment | Max Johns | @MxDEJ | |
Structuring content, restructuring organisations | Sara Wachter-Boettcher | @sara_ann_marie | |
The audience you didn’t know you had | Angela Colter | @angelacolter | |
Big content: Complexity, modelling, and maintaining meaning | John Alderman |
@mrhungry | |
A short history of everything (or at least content strategy) | Randall Snare and Elizabeth McGuane |
Video | |
Crowdsourced
Attendee resources we’ve managed find are listed below by author name. See something missing? Send us a tweet with the details and we’ll add it.
Photographs
- Many great photos taken by the conference organizers in the CS Forum 2012 Facebook albums.
- The CS Forum 2012 Flickr pool.
Blog posts
Listed alphabetically by author names.
- A Beginner's Guide to Content Strategy for the Web: 10 Things You Need to Know, by Andre Van Kets
- Notes on Contents Strategy Forum 2012, Cape Town, by Bruce Lawson
- Catch up on all the CS Forum 2012 talks from Cape Town, by Carrie-Jean Walker
- CS Forum 2012 Recap, by Corey Vilhauer
- Cape Town wakes up to content strategy: A review of the CSForum conference, by Jo Duxbury
- Conversations in Cape Town: Day 1, by Margot Bloomstein
- Conversations in Cape Town: Day 2, by Margot Bloomstein
- Feeling Their Pain, by Paula Land
- CS Forum 2012: Content in Cape Town, by Rachel Lovinger
- CS Forum 2012, by Steve Barnett
- Live Blogging From Content Strategy Forum Cape Town 2012, by Twisted Toast
Bonus material
Before the conference, attendees of a Cape Town meetup were treated to this preview greeting from some of the speakers.