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The Myth of the Perfect Methodology: Confab 2012 – Credits and Notes

I had the wonderful opportunity to speak at Confab 2012. And now, for your benefit, I bring the entire thing to YOU! Below you’ll find the slideshow, notes and reference links, and a list of the images I used for the presentation.

The slideshow:

 

 

 

The links and articles and such:

The content strategy guides-that-are-not-methodologies:

The Flickr images used via Creative Commons:

 



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