content-strategic-review

What it does

The skill acts as a senior content strategist combining Chief Web Editor and Technical Writer roles to review an event site from the reader’s perspective. It covers scope clarity, practical information, step-by-step instructions, inclusivity, and intuitive navigation. It tests multiple reader personas including beginners, experienced users, and people with accessibility needs, and provides concrete audit actions and content improvements.

How it works

• Part A: Reader's Mental Model Audit examines scope clarity (A1), event shape and activities (A2), and audience/inclusivity (A3). For each, it prescribes audit approaches, actions, and concrete outputs like mapping answers, flagging gaps, and suggesting consolidation.
• Part B: Practical Information Audit covers pre-event (B1), during-event (B2), and post-event (B3) tasks. It requires creating checklists, step-by-step instructions, and guides (Getting Started, Day of, Aftercare) to ensure task completion and clear expectations.
• Part C: Instructional Clarity Audit targets concepts (C1), skill/activity descriptions (C2), and safety/consent (C3). It instructs adding concept explainers, detailed activity descriptions with levels and durations, and explicit consent and safety guidance.
• Part D: Information Architecture & Navigation Audit analyzes content locations (D1), layering (D2), and discoverability (D3). It instructs creating a sitemap, Quickstart page, and improvements to search, headings, and internal links.
• Part E: Content Gaps & Redundancy Audit identifies missing content (E1) and redundancy (E2), guiding creation of new pages and consolidation of duplicates.
• Part F: Tone & Accessibility evaluates reader experience with balance (F1), readability (F2), and inclusivity (F3). It prescribes tone adjustments, readability improvements, and diverse, accessible representations.

When to use it

Use when evaluating a content strategy for a site describing events with instructional components, multiple reader personas, and accessibility considerations. Apply the framework to identify gaps, guide content rewrites, and structure navigation and task flows.

What it can touch

• Tools: claude-code
• Outputs: checklists, revised content blocks, section rewrites, and proposed navigation changes

Caveats

• The framework relies on existing site content to map questions to pages and identify gaps; if content is absent or non-deterministic, the audit highlights gaps without fabricating details.

Content Strategy Evaluation (Executive Summary)

• Executive Clarity: Good to Fair depending on current alignment with A1–A3 outputs; the framework targets explicit, user-centered answers and layer-based information.
• Practical Information: Requires concrete task-oriented instructions across pre-, during-, and post-event phases; the framework prescribes these outputs.
• Information Architecture: Emphasizes sitemap, layering, and quickstart pages to improve discoverability and reduce scattered information.
• Critical Gaps: Top gaps typically include explicit pre-event checklists, explicit code of conduct, and concrete safety/consent examples; post-event aftercare guidance is also commonly missing.
• Quick Wins: Create a single pre-event checklist, a Day of guide with arrival steps, and a dedicated consent/examples section; add a Quickstart page summarizing scope and core tasks.