{"id":1009,"date":"2011-05-13T08:38:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T12:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meetcontent.com\/?p=1009"},"modified":"2017-04-20T00:03:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T04:03:18","slug":"a-multidisciplinary-mindset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meetcontent.com\/blog\/a-multidisciplinary-mindset\/","title":{"rendered":"A Multidisciplinary Mindset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Georgy and I attended <a href=\"http:\/\/www.confab2011.com\/\" title=\"Confab 2011: The Content Strategy Conference\" rel=\"nofollow\">Confab 2011: The Content Strategy Conference<\/a>. For content-lovers like us, it was heaven. Two days, four tracks, all content. However, it wasn&#8217;t just the shared ideas that made it great \u2014 it was the many unique perspectives challenging the way that we work and think about content strategy.<\/p>\n<p>One of the themes of the conference was working relationships between web professionals (<a href=\"https:\/\/meetcontent.com\/blog\/making-friends-with-the-backend\/\" title=\"Making Friends with the Backend\">a topic we recently raised<\/a>). We can&#8217;t talk about content strategy as a stand-alone practice. In her entertaining presentation, Love Thy Geek: Working In And Amongst Web Teams, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RellyAB\" title=\"Relly Annett-Backer\">Relly Annett-Baker<\/a> called the future of the web multidisciplinary.<\/p>\n<p>Only when content, design and development come together can we do great work. &quot;We are all creative problem solvers,&quot; says Annett-Baker.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width:510px\" id=\"__ss_7913653\"> <strong style=\"display:block;margin:12px 0 4px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/RellyAB\/love-thy-geek-working-in-and-amongst-web-teams\" title=\"Love Thy Geek: Working In And Amongst Web Teams\">Love Thy Geek: Working In And Amongst Web Teams<\/a><\/strong> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/7913653?rel=0\" width=\"510\" height=\"426\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:5px 0 12px\"> View more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/\">presentations<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/RellyAB\">RellyAB<\/a> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><cite><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/RellyAB\/love-thy-geek-working-in-and-amongst-web-teams\/\" title=\"Love Thy Geek: Working In And Amongst Web Teams\">Love Thy Geek: Working In And Amongst Web Teams<\/a> by Relly Annett-Baker, May 10, 2011<\/cite><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Georgy and I attended Confab 2011: The Content Strategy Conference. For content-lovers like us, it was heaven. Two days, four tracks, all content. However, it wasn&#8217;t just the shared ideas that made it great \u2014 it was the many unique perspectives challenging the way that we work and think about content strategy. 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