SCOTT ABEL

Scott Abel is a content management strategist and social media choreographer whose strengths lie in helping organizations improve the way they author, maintain, publish and archive their information assets. Scott assists his clients in determining the best ways to efficiently manage their content lifecycles, including leveraging social media and networking technologies.

Scott is a presenter at content industry conferences and a founding member / former executive director of Content Management Professionals (http://www.cmpros.org).

He co-produces several industry events including the Documentation and Training conference series (www.doctrain.com) held several times each year, and Web Content Chicago (www.webcontentconferences.com), Intelligent Content (www.intelligentcontent2010.com), and others.

His blog, TheContentWrangler.com, is a popular destination for communication professionals seeking information about content management. Scott’s social networking site, The Content Wrangler Community (http://thecontentwrangler.ning.com), is a global network of content professionals that attracts thousands of members from around the world.

Twitter: www.twitter.com/scottabel
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Scott has considerable experience in XML-based enterprise content management strategy, high tech marketing communications, business process analysis, technical writing and editing, usability, content localization, and designing single source solutions. Scott’s formal journalism education, combined with 10 years as a technical writer, make him a natural fit in organizations seeking to assure the content they provide to their customers is accurate and consistent everywhere it is used (write content once, use it often).

Scott is an editor of technical, medical and scientific documents and books, and a frequent contributor to a variety of trade publications.