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Scott Abel

Scott Abel

The Content Wrangler

Chief Wrangler

Known affectionately as "The Content Wrangler," Scott Abel is the founder and chief executive officer of The Content Wrangler, a San Francisco-based content strategy consultancy that specializes in helping content-heavy global organizations improve the way they author, maintain, publish and archive their information assets. In turn, this helps them deliver the right information, to the right people, at the right time, in the right format and language, and on the device of their choosing. 

The Content Wrangler hosts content industry events including Technical Documentation RoundupContent Strategy Applied USA and Information Development World and produces The Content Wrangler Series of Content Strategy Books, a series of books, the first of which is “The Language of Content Strategy.”

Scott is also an internationally recognized content strategist and vibrant public speaker. He's frequently employed as a featured keynote presenter at content industry events like Content Marketing World, Localization World, Content Strategy Applied, Adobe DITA Day, Intelligent Content, Technical Communication UK. Technical Communication NZ, STC Summit, tcWorld, SDL Connect, and LavaCon. Scott co-founded the Intelligent Content Conference with content strategy guru, Ann Rockley, which they sold in 2015 to Content Marketing Institute in 2015.

Scott is a founding member of Content Management Professionals, the leader San Francisco Content Strategy Content Marketing Pros, an Associate Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication, and writes regularly for content industry publications. He was listed by eContent magazine as one of the top 50 content marketing resources on and by Brand Quarterly as one of 50 Marketing Thought Leaders Over 50

Sessions

Conversation: Developing Agentive Content

Join Scott AbelThe Content Wrangler, and Christopher Noessel for a conversation about the potential impact of moving from our tradition of providing content solutions that help people accomplish work toward content solutions that perform work for people.

Discussion: Challenges Moving Toward Conversational Content

Scott Abel asks a panel of experts to help us understand the challenges involved in producing conversational content.

Conference Wrap-up

Scott Abel provides some closing thoughts and gives away a few prizes.

Resources

The State of Technical Communication 2019