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Sharon March 12, 2024 at 04:13 PM

For those managing content on small teams (or a β€˜team’ of one!), what processes/tools/platforms/systems/general ways of organizing everything have been invaluable to you as you scale & bring in more guest writers / freelancers / staff?

I’m revisiting some existing processes/systems/tools to hopefully make scaling content production a smoother process for all involved so just looking for some general inspiration (links to any good Content Ops resources/podcasts/frameworks/templates/dashboards in general are also more than welcome! 😊)

Jimmy Daly (Superpath) March 12, 2024 at 04:19 PM

this podcast is a few years old but i think still very relevant (πŸ‘‹@Janessa Lantz, VP of Marketing at dbt Labs) https://www.superpath.co/blog/episode-3-janessa-lantz-on-being-a-one-person-marketing-team

Clark Herman March 12, 2024 at 05:22 PM

@Sharon I really liked Monday.com. it helps to keep me organized by creating multiple dashboards to sort projects by product marketing, straight content, social calendars, and workflow-intensive initiatives like podcasts/webinars. It helped me also as it had automatic notifications for teams to help keep reviewers accountable/on-task. the color coding also helps as far as typifying content such as topic buckets for social posts, etc. Happy to answer any questions about it!

Eric Doty (Superpath) March 12, 2024 at 05:32 PM

Hello, this is me! I'll DM you a bunch of links to my old LinkedIn posts on this stuff (trying to put together a course)...

My episode of Content Briefly too πŸ˜…. Or this blog I wrote for Superpath.

Sharon March 12, 2024 at 09:28 PM

Presently I’m using a weird combination of Monday + google docs + Notion (Notion is my favorite because I like to build out custom databases for things like boilerplate content & topic ideas in there in addition to using it for content calendars and such but the rest of the company uses Monday .com or just google docs so it’s a bit harder to share things internally when I build them out in Notion πŸ˜… )

Arestia Rosenberg March 13, 2024 at 05:30 PM

Honestly, I signed up with Collective last year and it just makes paying contractors so much easier. I do it through my business account and they send them 1099s at tax time. One less thing to worry about. Happy to talk to you more about Collective if you're interested.

Chloe Thompson March 14, 2024 at 03:51 AM

For staff in-house I lived by asana and our editorial blog calendar lived in a robust Google sheet owned by our managing editor. Honestly, I just lived in spreadsheets for budgeting, freelance pipeline etc and then anything internal stayed in asana.

Eric Melchor May 08, 2024 at 08:42 AM

@Sharon Planable is a great tool for managing/approving/distributing content for teams