Content Editor
- Content Editor
- the specialized content worker role that is played when a
person edits potential
content for one or more
systems or
applications prior to approval
As illustrated in the preceding figure, Content Editor is part of the following inheritance hierarchy.
The typical role-specific responsibilities repsonsibilities of a Content Editor are to:
- Select and prioritize content.
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- Aggregate and package content.
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- Copy edit formatted content for readability, grammer, and spelling.
- Edit content for conformance with the customer’s digital brand
(e.g., has an appropriate and authentic voice).
Content Editor typically inherits the
general role responsibilities from the
Role method component.
To fulfill these responsibilities, a Content Editor typically should have the following
personal characteristics,
expertise,
training, and
experience:
A Content Editor should typically have the following personal characteristics:
A Content Editor typically should have the following expertise:
- Excellent writing, editing, and proofreading skills.
- Familiarity with both Associated Press and Chicago styles.
- Solid knowledge of the content-related aspects of the requirements and architectures.
- Solid Knowledge of customer’s digital brand.
- Experience in:
- Journalism.
- Publishing.
- Technical writing.
- Marketing and promotional writing.
- Copy editing.
- Technology skills:
- Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Dynamic HTML (DHTML),
and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- Extensible Markup Language (XML)
- Content management systems
- Database management systems
- A bachelor’s degree or better in one of the following areas:
- English Literature (with emphasis on creative writing and technical writing.
- Journalism.
- Business administration (with emphasis on marketing, communications, or public relations).
Content editors typically perform the following
role-specific tasks in an iterative,
incremental, parallel, and time-boxed manner:
Content editors typically inherit
common role tasks from the
role process component.
Content editors typically perform these tasks as members of
the following teams:
As members of these teams, content editors typically produce
all or part of the following work products:
- The same person often plays both the content editor and
content writer roles.
- This role typically inherits the
common team guidelines from the
roles process component.
