#ConfabFeelings
Regular faces from in and around the best content strategy conference, circa 2011-2023
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@andy.wtf
@jakeklo.bsky.social
i live in minnesota, where i do things with design systems and content design
@heidileech.bsky.social
Gen X. Anti-drama. Still a U.S. federal worker but expecting to be fired in the upcoming RIF.
@amygracewells.bsky.social
Content and UX. Unceremoniously laid off. Looking for distraction from the depression. ADHD. Toddler mom. Never at rest.
@luxamnesiac.bsky.social
The one with the 🍍 tattoo. She's broken but she's fun. Leftist scum. Geriatric millennial. Mind my wicked words and tipsy topsy slurs. 717/410/302. She/They.
@daphnef.bsky.social
I’m a dot connector who designs with words: UX content designer and strategist, editor and writer, advocate for age-diverse teams. Musician. End-of-life doula
@tomresing.com
Content designer at Microsoft. Formerly @resing on Twitter. I plan to post about content design, Microsoft products, books (mostly anti-racist learning), cats, basketball (mostly San Antonio Spurs), and AI. I won't like or repost when alt text is missing
@mjmetts.bsky.social
A writer and teacher who always has time for tea. Anyone can be a leader. No one can lead like you. https://leadinglikeyou.com
@clearwriter.bsky.social
Conspicuously tall. Yarn enthusiast. Certified Master Gardener. Bestselling book: Sustainable Content — available from your favorite online bookseller.
@richardingram.bsky.social
@nolwenn-k.bsky.social
Speaker, technical communication specialist, trainer, SaaS Solution Architect at MadCap Software - Posts/discussions my views only. #IXIACCMS #DITAXML
@kerryanne.bsky.social
Content strategy and information architecture consultant | South African living her best cheese-filled life in France | F1, football, music, cats, kindness, compassion, dancing until 5am – these are a few of my favourite things
@tracyplayle.bsky.social
Content strategist, speaker, author, coach, CEO. Founder: ContentEd, Pickle Jar, Utterly Content. Education specialist. Dog person. Pickle Jar: https://wearepicklejar.com ContentEd+: https://plus.contentedlive.com
@andrewhearst.bsky.social
Brooklyn-based freelance content designer, content strategist, UX designer. Mostly working on civic tech and govtech projects these days. Past: Blue State Digital, Vanity Fair. andrewhearst.com
@maxjohns.nz
aka MxDEJ, aka Mike Alpha Xray. Glad to be here. Disliker of billionaire saboteurs.
@juliacreates.bsky.social
Avid reader, community herbalist, lover of a project and a cozy bookstore. Probably some content design stuff too.
@kirabug.com
SFFH Writer, UX designer, design systems builder, and accessibility geek. Wrote the Alphabet of Accessibility Issues. She/her. Can roast a duck, knit, beat Skyrim, but can't make Tuna Helper. Has 3 jack russels: ages 4-7.
@puffin-lady.bsky.social
Content designer, swimmer, crafter, bookworm, fashion lover, wife and friend. She/her. Hi from China!
@deborahbeckwin.bsky.social
I help mission-driven organizations create change and connection through content. | 📰 Subscribe to my newsletter! 👉🏾https://bit.ly/InTheLoopNewsletter888
@originalalexa.bsky.social
Empathetic, inclusive, results-oriented content design leader. Hobbies: reading voraciously, traveling internationally, trying new restaurants, cooking new recipes, tasting delicious wines, winning at trivia, asserting female power. #sparklelikechampagne
@theliterati.bsky.social
Proud Armchair Activist, Speaker, Teacher, Content Strategist and Designer, Journalist, Mom
@joshtong.bsky.social
Content strategist and consultant at MERGE. Doing lots of information architecture and content ops. Day hiker, city ambler, bus and train traveler. Fan of fiction in translation. Opinions are mine. Philadelphia | JoshTong.io
@antifabae.bsky.social
She/her. Brooklyn kid. Unapologetically demon. Enemy of empire ✌🏾
@infotexture.net
Information Architecture · UX Writing · Content Design Ops · DITA Open Toolkit docs
@robin2go.bsky.social
renegade element. disruptive human. drinks coffee. laughs loudly. swears profusely. trying to remember how to have fun again on social.
@bencallahan.com
Curious guy, systems thinker, Founder of Sparkbox, design system consultant and coach. Loves coffee, photography, poetry, volleyball, and cheating at hide and seek. https://bencallahan.com/ https://sparkbox.com/
@jeremybauer.bsky.social
Content Designer, burning bright, In the forests of the night; *** Sometimes poet goof. Other times music goof. Also a werewolf enthusiast. Just a howlin’ and a goofin’.
@webmeadow.bsky.social
Consultant, Director of Strategy & Livestock. I help product & content teams build stronger cross-functional relationships. Lotta chickens and rabbits over here.
@melrach.bsky.social
Into live music, exploring new places, science, poetry, and creatures great and small. Content strategist, content designer, and communicator. I wish I was as cool as my avatar.
@nikkidowns.bsky.social
San Francisco native, cat mom, boy mom, content strategist, marketer, coffee enthusiast.
@gladysdit.bsky.social
@eyesondesign00.bsky.social
Content designer by day. Cat herder (figuratively and literally). Life is what you make of it 💃🏼
@ghadakandil.bsky.social
I read/talk about information architecture and the content set {strategy, management, design, operations, conversation} اقرأ/اتحدث عن معمارية المعلومات ومجموعة المحتوى {استراتيجيته، إدارته، تصميمه، عملياته، محادثته}
@picken.bsky.social
Content Design London managing director, CEDA trustee, Dad to 2 girls, Runner: 5 x marathon; 4 x ultra, WBA. Live in Cornwall, work globally.
@zolloway.bsky.social
Trying to help build a world that works for non-billionaires. Currently: healthcare product strategy + design. Here with musings on design work, social change, various sporty sport teams, and good things I’m reading.
@hilarymarsh.bsky.social
Content strategist, lesbian, wife/mom/grandma, knitter. Proud Democrat, forever heartbroken that we probably won't see a woman U.S. President in my lifetime.
@trishskee.bsky.social
🤓 UX design practitioner in computational design at MSFT by day. 🦹♀️ Bog-dwelling swamp witch in the PNW by night.
@scarequotes.com
Moviegoer, movie lover. PNW denizen. UX content worker. Word nerd. Descriptivist by inclination. Learning German. Handy on a trivia team. Hard cider, iced tea. he/him, cis Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/xrv
@bethbot.bsky.social
Your friendly neighborhood UX nerd. Occasionally manifests as a haunted tea-cosy.
@ccholland.bsky.social
Content strategy wonk. Reader. Writer. Thinker. Pickleballer. Partner, parent, and friend. Chosen companion to a German Shepherd.
@blueberri.co
Empowering food bloggers and food tech innovators to scale with strategic content solutions, AI education, and digital tools. Courses, webinars, and fractional leadership to help you grow. Reimagine food + tech.
@erinbschroeder.bsky.social
content & ux strategist @lullabot. writer, voracious bookworm, feminist, comedy lover, old millennial, hiker, crocheter. 📌 iowa [opinions are my own]
@slowburnweb.bsky.social
Wurundjeri land. He/him/his. I help make government digital services better. I like and post about good design, rock’n’roll, cricket, and general silliness. Views are my own.
@annehainespoet.bsky.social
Music, poetry, cats, books, guitars, libraries, UX, writing, weather, tennis. She/her. Spinster. Past middle-aged. Living in the part of Indiana that sucks less than others. Almost forgot I had this account. Let's try it again.
@annedougherty.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 Writer and professional content nerd who is passionate about film, good sound, evenly spaced crochet stitches, and the Oxford comma. #butchesagainsttransphobia #contentstrategy #contentdesign
@nozurbina.bsky.social
Fighting truth collapse under the threat of AI by night. Enabling brands' #omnichannel #personalisation with #AI by day. Generally trying to make the world less scary via: UrbinaConsulting.com, TruthCollapse.com, OmnichannelX.digital #knowledgegraph
@joyherbers.bsky.social
Recovered Republican. Childless cat lady. Assassin for hire. Judging your grammar. 🤨
@vidhika.bsky.social
@eaton.fyi
Conceptual corvid currently fixated on organizational topology, design systems as languages, structured content as embodied doctrine, and shitposting as a service
@kuratowa.bsky.social
80% water. 20% karaoke, theatre, pop culture, board gaming, hiking, travel, reading. Natural state: happy and confused.
@mrvilhauer.bsky.social
Web things by day. Other stuff by night. Subscribe to my monthly hour-long mixtapes at: https://buttondown.email/blackmarks. Jams econo.
@mbloomstein.bsky.social
Content strategy consultant, author, speaker. Review my book, let me pet your dog. Trustworthy: https://a.co/d/dkufKSS Everything else: http://appropriateinc.com
@escmum.bsky.social
Founder and CEO of Content Design London Cat person with a dog. (And a cat, horse, hamster and fish.) Really hoping this takes over from the other place.
@contentdesign.london
We work with organisations, big and small, to transform their content and help them succeed. Not more content, smarter content. Consultancy, training, books, and all things content design. www.contentdesign.london
@rlovinger.bsky.social
Traveler, movie-lover, theater-goer, film festival enthusiast, foodie, amateur photographer. Content Strategy Hall of Fame (Confab 2023) She/Her
@rachelmcconnell.bsky.social
Design Leader, author of Why You Need a Content Team, Leading Content Design, and founder of Tempo.
@jonathoncolman.org
Coffee first, content right after that. Leading UX content design at HubSpot. Returned Peace Corps Volunteer. Partner to Marja, walker of Lola, Ireland immigrant, global migrant. He/him. 👉 https://bio.link/jcolman 👈
@karenmcgrane.bsky.social
On a good day, I make the web more awesome. On a bad day, I just make it suck less.
@kvox.bsky.social
Stubborn San Franciscan. Connector, reassurer, dog enthusiast, art collector, veteran technology observer and yes, optimist. Wrote Taking the Work Out of Networking. #resist
@candi.bsky.social
✨ Content Design Director by day, author and lowkey witch by night. Big fan of: travel, bright colours, laughter, social justice, crystals, tarot and wine. 🔮 Views, very much my own.
@amy.bsky.social
Word nerd. UX Design. Productively discontent. Chief Design Officer @Gustohq. Previously: UX leadership at Shopify & Facebook. I speak for myself. She/her. 🇨🇦
@heyamychick.bsky.social
She/her. I make fuzzy things unfuzzy. Product and design leader available for fractional and consulting work.
@amyhupe.bsky.social
She/her Design systems and content design consultant. Reckless shitposter. amyhupe.co.uk wearefrankly.co #DesignSystems #ContentDesign #WriteTheDocs
@larry.bsky.social
enterprise IA | knowledge graphs | practice democratization | community building | structured content and data | podcasting
@redsesame.bsky.social
UX consultant. Author of Everyday Information Architecture. I like Star Trek, bad movies, shitposting, and kindness.
@pdstafford.bsky.social
✍️ CEO/Cofounder UX Content Collective (uxcontent.com) 🎸 Bass player 🎥 Movie lover 🎙️ Podcast host (writersofsiliconvalley.com)
@wd45.bsky.social
Writer and content designer. Fancier of vinyl LP records. Tall. Bit of a dandy. Also: tea.
@annapickard.bsky.social
Writer, on call Voice & Tone doctor for random tech companies, fan of museums, nerd about words, restless human. Really trying to avoid everyone yelling at each other.
@torreybird.bsky.social
Cats, kayaking, and UX content strategy. President of www.CatbirdContent.com
@janeruffino.bsky.social
Content designer, UX writer, facilitator, contemporary archaeologist. Human mom and dog mom. She/her. Allergic to unwanted advice.
@theokaratzas.bsky.social
"Return of the Mack" gets stuck in my head at least once a week.
@shannonleahy.bsky.social
Mum, wifey, snuggler of Ginger Snap and Muffin. Content design, UX, and asking questions are my jam. Leopard print is the best neutral.
@chrisbaty.bsky.social
Writer, former word nerd at Figma, and founder of NaNoWriMo. Already thinking about tomorrow’s coffee. 🏝️Alameda, CA
@rahelbailie.bsky.social
Content operations obsession | Content strategy | Operational efficiencies | Based in Ireland, curious about the world
@chelslarss.bsky.social
GenAI and Content Design. UX Design Director. Co-founder of Smallish Book. Published illustrator - Google Artist in Residence.
@lapope.bsky.social
Content strategy and content design for charities and arts orgs. Also: Brighton, photography, sea swimming, nature, my dog, typos. She/her. RSA Fellow.
@amandaesque.bsky.social
I enjoy filling out forms because it feels like taking a test where I know all the answers. MSP, she/her. Former 18F content strategist. Practitioner of bureaucromancy.
@carrieh.bsky.social
Creative problem solver. Anti-fascist. Connector of people, processes, technology. Author, Designing Connected Content http://amzn.to/2BO4Yqs
@halvorson.bsky.social
Content strategy mom. Backyard birder. Founder of Brain Traffic and Button Events. 📍St. Paul, MN
@andy.wtf
Co-author of “Writing is Designing”. Content design + product UX in San Francisco. Pencil podcaster, zine maker, cat petter and Star Trek watcher. Red hot like pizza supper. Black lives still matter. http://andy.menu