I wanted to make a big shout out to all the folks who came to my talk at the EuroIA Conference today. Wow! Thanks! I had no idea so many people were interested in content analysis.
Here is a PDF version of the presentation: Content Analysis Slides [ PDF: 4.2 MB ]
And here is a link to a audit spreadsheet template that should get you going: Content Audit Template [Excel: 54 KB]
I am forming all kinds of things to talk about that I've learned here, but for now I need to get to bed if I have any chance of making to the morning sessions.
Chiara,
Many thanks for the presentation at Euro IA. I was really glad that you mentioned content audits and that so many people attended (might have been more down to you than the subject perhaps). I have worked on intranets for some years now and have come to the conclusion that if you can manage the content effectively many of the problems surrounding findability and relevance disappear.
Problem has always been in convincing intranet managers, content owners and the like that much of their content shouldn't be on the intranet. I originally published on this before Euro IA and I'd be interested to see if you think that this approach would be of value in the big wide internet world.
http://patrickcwalsh.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/content-value-analysis-for-intranets/
http://patrickcwalsh.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/content-value-analysis-for-intranets-part-2-a-methodology/