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Content Audits and Inventories

A Handbook for Content Analysis

Now in 2nd Edition

Expanded and updated!

Praise for the first edition

  • “No other book provides such detailed, do-able guidelines for the all-important content audit. An invaluable resource for anyone involved with wrangling the realities of online content!”

    — Kristina Halvorson, President, Brain Traffic and author of Content Strategy for the Web

  • “This important work repositions the content audit as an ongoing process for organizations to adopt for performance-driven content. A must read for anyone working with content and making organizational decisions about content.”

    — Kevin P. Nichols, Former Director and Global Practice Lead, Content Strategy, SapientNitro. Current Executive Director of Experience, AvenueCX and ​author Enterprise Content Strategy: A Project Guide

  • “Content Audits and Inventories: A Handbook goes well beyond the promise of its title, while keeping the advice straightforward and actionable. With this book, you’ll be ready to thoroughly map out the dense content landscape of any digital project you undertake.”

    — Rachel Lovinger, Experience Director and Content Strategist, Razorfish

  • “Paula has done for content auditing what no one has done before: curated, assembled and commented on every possible angle you need to know to make your content auditing process smooth and successful. Being great at content starts with a great audit and being great at auditing starts with this handbook.”

    — Ahava Leibtag, President, AHA Media Group

  • “Paula has done for content auditing what no one has done before: curated, assembled and commented on every possible angle you need to know to make your content auditing process smooth and successful. Being great at content starts with a great audit and being great at auditing starts with this handbook.”

    — Ahava Leibtag, President, AHA Media Group

  • “Content quality matters and it doesn’t happen by mistake. Content Audits and Inventories: A Handbook gives content professionals a roadmap and a recipe for getting content quality right.”

    — Joe Gollner, Director, Gnostyx Research Inc.

  • “No one has covered this topic definitively before and Paula Ladenburg Land nailed it. Paula’s exceptional book has demystified the project manager’s bugaboo: the content audit. While a content inventory and audit are the foundation of any digital design project, this seemingly simple pair is often misunderstood, under scoped, and inappropriately staffed. Land clearly and concisely guides novices and experts alike through the audit process from the discovery phase to post-deployment governance.

    Content Audits and Inventories: A Handbook is just that—the book you will have in hand throughout the life of a project. It’s an indispensable manual for the bedrock documents of content strategy.”

    — Marlowe Sarah Beckley, Manager of Content Strategy, SapientNitro

About The Author

Paula Ladenburg Land is an industry expert on the topic of content audits and inventories. She has worked as a content strategy consultant, technology entrepreneur, and teacher.

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