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Tracy Playle

April 11, 2019 by

Tracy Playle is a consultant content strategist primarily working in the HE sector. Before founding her company in 2007, she worked as Head of Research-TV at the University of Warwick (UK). There she was responsible for overseeing the production of over 100 videos showcasing university research to be used by television networks around the world and online. Playle is regarded as leading thinker on content strategy in HE. She speaks at conferences around the world, including events such as the CASE Europe Annual Conference, CASE Asia-Pacific Conference, HighEdWeb, PSEWeb, and Confab. In 2016 she was the opening keynote speaker at ConfabEdu. She has worked with over 170 education institutions in more than 25 countries, is a CASE Crystal Apple Teaching Award winner, and founder of the ContentEd conference, Europe’s first content strategy conference for the education sector. She is author of The Connected Campus: creating a content strategy to drive engagement with your university (2019).

Academy Details

October 12-13, 2019
  • Hilton Milwaukee City Center
  • Immediately before the HighEdWeb Annual Conference

Registration

Total cost: $400

Includes two meals. Space limited.

Register

Registration opens in April.

Why attend?

Graduates of this program will have the confidence and best practice-based skills to better execute a data-drive content strategy, and measure and report its impact.

Who should attend?

  • Marketing and enrollment professionals involved with user experience, content, lead generation or stakeholder management
  • Anyone who works on a web or marketing team seeking to strengthen their activities in the areas of UX and content strategy

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Organizers

Program chairs
  • Amy Grace Wells, UX Booth
  • Shelley Keith
Academy chairs
  • Cheryl McKay, Missouri S&T
  • Melissa Van De Werfhorst, UC Santa Barbara

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