E-government web content problems in Arab nations? Yes, there's quite an overlap with what we see in English language government web content! In Ras Al Khaimah (RAK), one of the United Arab Emirates, Basem A. Shahin is fully involved in...
Blog: Content writing and content strategy insights
Making videos on video: we're learning by doing
Video. It's so daunting. You make one, it's not very good, so you conveniently forget about video for weeks, or months, or years. Then you make another video, which is also not particularly good. Alice and I have decided to...
Bread-and-butter pudding and The Filter Bubble: video
Hey, your own web site shows at the top of search results! Not so fast: Google or Facebook has shown you exactly what you want to see. Rachel talks about the impact of data gathering plus personalization, trends described in...
Facebook for business, marketing, professional development
Facebook: it's all about you—yes you—and us too! You probably write or manage content of some sort, like most Contented readers, and that's certainly a big part of what we do here at Contented. By now, we're all aware that...
Contented places: photo contest, 2011
Many people told us they loved last year’s Contented places photo competition, so we are running it again this year. Think of a place where you feel (or felt) utterly contented. It might be beautiful or not, at work or...