Content as conversation in government websites

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Abstract

Thinking of content as conversation is a very powerful way to plan, organize, write, and test websites. Early government websites seemed to be built as if they were virtual file cabinets - offering people access to paper documents. Today, that metaphor is dead. A better metaphor is to think of websites as replacing the telephone. Using a case study of transforming a government website, I show how thinking of content as conversation and planning for customer-focused purposes, customer personas, and customers' questions can help government writers give people what they need in words they understand. I also show how walking personas through their conversations is a powerful review technique and how content as conversation helps in planning for usability testing. © 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

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Redish, J. (2013). Content as conversation in government websites. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 8015 LNCS, pp. 294–303). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39253-5_32

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