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Reading List for Web Content Managers

Here’s a list of books authored by some of your favorite Web Manager University instructors. We're not endorsing a particular author, book, or publisher, but thought you might like to know about additional resources available from some of the leading experts in the web community.

If you know of additional reading resources that would be helpful to the web manager community, please share via the Web Content Managers Listserv.

Books

• Web Form Design, Filling in the Blanks
  By Luke Wroblewski. Rosenfeld Media, May 2008. Available in paperback and digital package (1–933820–24–1), digital (PDF) edition (ISBN 1–933820–25–X)
  
• Killer Web Content: Make the Sale, Deliver the Service, Build the Brand
  By Gerry McGovern, September 2007, paperback. (Instructor for Knowing Your Audience and Their Top Tasks)
  
  Also read Gerry’s New Thinking, a weekly e–mail newsletter that focuses on web content management.

• Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content That Works
  By Janice (Ginny) Redish, June 2007, paperback. Instructor for Advanced Writing for the Web)
• Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning
  By Dan Brown, September 2006, paperback. (Instructor for Basics of Information Architecture)
• Don’t Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
  By Steve Krug, August 2005, 2nd edition, paperback. (Instructor for Usability Testing on a Shoestring)
  
• Creating Websites That Work
  By Kathryn Summers, Ph.D., and Michael Summers, January 2004 (Instructor for Designing and Writing Forms for the Web)

Blogs

• Candi Harrison is a retired federal web manager (HUD) and remains active in the government web community by instructing some of WMU’s most popular courses, including: Leadership Skills for Government Web Managers and Building Effective Web Governance. Candi maintains a blog at: http://candioncontent.blogspot.com

• Shel Holtz, online communication expert and WMU instructor ( Survey of Social Media: Blogs, RSS, Podcasts, Wikis, and More, Spring 2007), blogs at: http://blog.holtz.com/

• Pierre–Guillaume Wielezynski, one of the keynote speakers at the 2007 Government Web Managers Annual Workshop, blogs at www.personomies.com

 

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