Activate your brand platform with content strategy
Tuesday, September 15, 2026, 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM CDT
Your institution spent [redacted] dollars on a new brand messaging platform, resulting in a set of pillars that ring true. But now what?
How do you translate this typically lofty artifact into day-to-day content creation and maintenance? How should the brand influence editorial decision-making about stories and photos, your website content hierarchy or your choice of content formats? How do you train content contributors to write on-brand?
In this session, you’ll learn how to turn brand pillars into purposeful, actionable content strategy guidance, including:
- Determining content types, substance and formats.
- Creating a strategic editorial calendar.
- Applying style, voice and tone.
- Establishing long-term brand governance and assessment.
- Considering AI visibility.
- Build upon your brand foundation through content planning and decision-making
- Operationalize the brand through the development of style and voice & tone guidelines, a component system, and strategic content hierarchies
- Prepare for the future of your brand through sustainable approaches and ongoing assessment