10 episodes
Words in progress Christine Cawthorne and Robert Mills
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Hello lovely listener, welcome to an ongoing conversation between Christine and Rob, two people who write for a living and for pleasure.
We’re currently working together on a website project - Rob as a content designer and Christine doing the content strategy.
In this series we talk through the challenges that crop up – and how we get through them.
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Episode 10: The project retro - what went well and what could have been better?
Rob and Christine reflect on the project, discussing what went well and what could have been better.
Expect introspection as the pair look back over their work and decisions.
Transcript for episode 8.
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Episode 9: How do you finish a project?
Christine is thinking about setting up a content community of practice while Rob reflects on how the pair and trio writing processes are being embedded into the organisation.
Transcript for episode 8.
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Episode 8: Getting stakeholders to fact check content
Rob defines what he does - and doesn't - want the subject matter experts to check and Christine has started bringing all the parts of the content strategy together.
Transcript for episode 8.
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Episode 7: A crisis of confidence
Christine's worried she is just rearranging mess into a different order while trying to improve the content creation workflow and Rob sets boundaries over stakeholder engagement and his remit.
Transcript for episode 7.
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Episode 6: *Special edition* All about the trio writing technique
Rob discusses how he adapted the pair writing technique to work for translating content. Along with a translator and a user researcher, he created user centred content in two languages, using the translation process to improve the original content. A fantastic listen about using an existing technique in a different situation.
Transcript for episode 6.
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Episode 5: Who has the authority?
Rob's been mapping user journeys with stakeholders and Christine wonders if she has the authority to make improvements to the content creation process?
Transcript for episode five.
Episode music credit: Give A Little by Shane Ivers.