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Podcasting 101
Readings This weeks reading solidified the best ways to go about creating my podcast at home. There’s two main pieces when it comes to bringing my podcast to life: the recording and the editing. Recording When it comes to recording, you don’t need to have the fanciest, most high tech…
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Using Design Fiction to Build for the Future
What if, instead of just designing for today, we could design for a future that might not even exist yet? That’s the basic idea behind design fiction. It’s a creative approach that asks “What if?” rather than “How do we make this work right now?” What Exactly Is Design Fiction?…
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Getting Organized for a Podcast
This week is all about the preliminary research on not just what my podcast episode will be about, but all the nitty gritty information about podcasting itself. What goes into it? Who does it best? What are the best practices? So, let’s take a look at what I uncovered this…
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To Be Girls Together: An Exploration Through Imagery
Images have the unique power of telling stories through capturing moments and ideas that go beyond what words can convey. Through capturing a single moment, images can evoke emotion, convey atmosphere, and highlight details that might have otherwise gone unnoticed. With the ability to communicate across cultures and languages, images…
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Creating HealthReach’s Content Strategy Proposal
HealthReach Community Health Centers is dedicated to providing comprehensive healthcare services to rural communities across Central and Western Maine. With a network of 12 different health centers, HealthReach offers medical, dental, and behavioral health care on a sliding fee scale, ensuring that high-quality care is accessible to individuals and families…
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Content Design: How to Focus on What’s Important
Content design is all about making sure the right information is in the right place, at the right time, and in the right format for your users. But the question is how do you actually do that? It comes down to four important steps: Prioritization, Organization, Presentation, and Content Models.…
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Native Advertising: Can It Be Ethical?
When I’m scrolling on social media and see a sponsored ad on my feed, my immediate reaction is to skip over it and continue on my way. With traditional ads being easy to ignore because of their tendency to stick out, native advertising, a type of ad that is designed…
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Competitor Analysis: Capturing The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
A good competitor analysis is going to be what helps you elevator your brand to stand out from the rest. Identifying the good, the bad, and the ugly from your competitors is the first step to pulling out on top. What is a Competitor Analysis? A competitor analysis is going…
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Content Analysis: What Exactly Am I Looking For?
Content analysis is the key to making sure your website is as successful, accessible, and thoughtful as possible. No matter what, there is always something that can be done better to improve any area, which is why it’s so important to start analyzing. There’s Software To Help You Get There…
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Content Strategy – What We Should Know About It
When people first hear the term content strategy, a lot of time they will focus too heavily on the term “content”, assuming it’s related to solely the content you are putting out as in graphics, trends, videos, posts, etc. When in reality, the focus is really on the “strategy” piece.…
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