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March 15, 2025

What is a Digital Experience Readiness Roadmap?

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How a Digital Experience Readiness Roadmap helps organizations align on strategy, technology, team capability, and governance before a major digital initiative.

Content and IA  |  Strategy

October 25, 2024

Moving a Musical Institution to Umbraco

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The South Dakota Symphony Orchestra needed a site that was simple, easy to update, and affordable, so it turned to Blend and Umbraco for a site refresh and migration.

Events and Commerce  |  Content and IA  |  Design and Front-End  |  Umbraco

October 17, 2024

Strategic Design for Development Handoff

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Strategy and design for hand-off: our work developing a strategic design for an OmniUpdate university site.

Higher Education  |  Content and IA  |  Design and Front-End

Shannan Anderson  |  October 16, 2024

The Basics of a Content Entry Plan

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Feeling overwhelmed by content migration? No worries. Lead Project Manager Shannan Anderson breaks down the process from start to finish on how to incorporate content planning into your web project. 

Content and IA  |  Migration  |  Project Management  |  Strategy

Joe Kepley  |  October 16, 2024

Must Have Features of a Children's Hospital Website

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Your website can often be the first impression of the level of care your healthcare team provides – giving you a chance to welcome a child and their family to your children's hospital long before they set foot in the front door. 

Healthcare  |  Content and IA  |  Development  |  Strategy

Corey Vilhauer  |  August 6, 2024

AI is a Tool, Not a Solution

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AI is too often a solution in need of a problem, the hallmark of a technology still looking for early adopters and financial support. Instead, it's time to start looking at AI as a tool among many, one piece of a larger answer.

AI  |  Content and IA  |  Design and Front-End  |  Strategy

August 1, 2024

A Hybrid Approach to Conference Content Management

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NAFCU needed a website that could integrate information across its numerous microsites without losing the feel of its brand. That's when Blend stepped in to integrate a hybrid approach designed to seamlessly navigate any content.

Associations  |  Content and IA  |  Development

Joe Kepley  |  February 22, 2024

Simplifying the Complexities of a Banking Site

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Improving Your Professional Association Site: Tips for Driving Engagement

Financial Services  |  Content and IA  |  Digital Optimization  |  Strategy

September 20, 2023  |  The Web Project Guide Podcast

Episode 23: Plan for Post-Launch Operations (w/ Meghan Casey)

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Corey and Deane talk about the idea of a web operations framework. Then, Meghan Casey, content strategist and author of The Content Strategy Toolkit: Methods, Guidelines, and Templates for Getting Content Right, joins to talk about content governance and ongoing maintenance — how humans are nearly always the problem (but not the humans you might think), the things you can do to plan for post-launch content, and how to deromanticize the bit launch in favor of content maintenance.

Content and IA  |  Digital Optimization  |  Project Management

August 22, 2023

A New and Flexible Umbraco Site to Promote Healthy Living

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The South Dakota Department of Health partnered with Blend and Umbraco to create a future-focused, relevant, and flexible website to promote healthy living across the state.

Government  |  Healthcare  |  Content and IA  |  Design and Front-End  |  Development  |  Digital Optimization  |  Migration  |  Strategy  |  Umbraco