{"id":1918,"date":"2011-10-07T08:54:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T12:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meetcontent.com\/?p=1918"},"modified":"2017-04-20T00:10:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T04:10:39","slug":"web-governance-and-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meetcontent.com\/blog\/web-governance-and-ownership\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Governance and Ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a post this week, Jonathan Kahn, a strong advocate of content strategy and web governance, reminds us that the culture shift to a web-centric mindset for publishing and communication is still incomplete. <\/p>\n<p>As I described in my recent post about <a href=\"https:\/\/meetcontent.com\/blog\/selling-content-strategy-a-continuous-process\/\" title=\"Selling Content Strategy: A Continuous Process\">selling content strategy<\/a>, we need to help stakeholders make this shift in thinking. Web governance is a responsibility that needs ownership. We still need to make the case for it \u2014 and to be prepared to do it more than once.<\/p>\n<p>The question, of course, is how to make the case so decision makers will listen. Kahn offers some good advice and tough love.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bqwrap\">\n<blockquote><p>The only way out is to stop waiting for permission, and to start leading. This isn&#8217;t technically complex, but it takes courage: the willingness to leave our comfort zones, face our own fear of confronting the status quo, and overcome our resistance to shipping. It also takes a lot of messy interpersonal work: advocacy, facilitation, diplomacy, pragmatism, and patience. This is what Godin calls &quot;emotional labour&quot;. Like it or not, these are the key skills of the modern web professional.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><cite><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/lucidplot.com\/2011\/10\/03\/governance-linchpin\/\">The web professional\u2019s choice: linchpin or cog<\/a> by Jonathan Kahn, lucid plot, Oct. 3, 2011.<\/cite><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a post this week, Jonathan Kahn, a strong advocate of content strategy and web governance, reminds us that the culture shift to a web-centric mindset for publishing and communication is still incomplete. As I described in my recent post about selling content strategy, we need to help stakeholders make this shift in thinking. 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