I’m not publishing on Medium anymore — if you want to read more of my writing, you’ll find it here: https://lapope.com/thinking/ Bodging, workshopping, and consolidating gigantic lists of keywords: my week in review. This week I’ve been: Being resourceful I’ve been bodging content types and a design system of sorts for a…

Content people don’t have to fix everything, everywhere, all at once. Really. — I shared a slightly glib tweet earlier this week that I wanted to write more about: This is how content feels a lot of the time. You’re being tasked with looking at one little thing, but in doing that, you hear that everything is broken, everywhere. And naturally, you…

A slightly rushed and garbled weeknotes this time. This week has been bananas. My two big areas of focus were: taking clients on the journey, and telling them what they already know. — Taking clients on the journey I’m working on a project with a lovely hefty discovery phase: a big content audit, and lots of user and stakeholder interviews. In this scenario, I’d often drop the client a few juicy hints about what I’m learning, but save most of the insight for a big reveal in the…

In the first instalment of my new content strategy agony aunt series, someone asks what it means to deliver a content strategy. — Hi Lauren, Fellow content strategist here. I wonder if I might ask you a question about one of your listed accomplishments, “Worked with two teams to define and capture their content strategies.” (LP: the writer is referring to this year notes post). A bit of background before my question ……

This week I’ve been thinking about busyness, business, and motivation. I’ve been busy this week with: User and stakeholder interviews Content auditing Data analysis Content design New business meetings and proposals I hate being busy. I like to be productive but relaxed and focused on one thing at a time…

In-person client meetings, work travel, balancing new business in an anti-growth business: my week in review. This week I: Started with a kick-off meeting with a new client in Scotland. I went up a day early to explore and had an amazing walk under the snowy shadow of Ben Lomond…

Making sense and making myself ill, my week in review. This week I’ve been: Sensemaking. I’m working on an intranet project with a ludicrously complex hierarchy and bureaucracy underpinning it. It feels like the client and I are trying to unpick a very tangled, knotted piece of twine so we…

After saying that I couldn’t get into the weeknotes format in a recent blog post, I’ve decided — probably foolishly — to give it another go. I’m trying to build more reflection time into my life, and this seems as good a way as any. — So, this week I: Eased myself back into work by tackling some admin: bookkeeping, emails, client onboarding, contract prepping, project planning, etc. This stuff isn’t really a good use of my time; I’m not an expert at it, and I don’t enjoy it, so I shouldn’t be doing it (going…

Finding a niche, walking the line between content and service design, trusting the process, and accessing charity services myself: my 2022 in review. I know week notes are the typical format, but I’ve never been able to get into the habit and keep up the pace. …