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Content Construction Kit Tutorials

The Content Construction Kit is a resource for Amnesty International Canada writers, bloggers, and contributors. The CCK is an integral part of Amnesty International Canada's content strategy and the starting-point in our digital publishing workflow.

This document provides an introduction to the kit; its templates, the philosophies and technologies behind them, and how to use the CCK to take part in digital publishing.

Documentation of the CCK is maintained in the repository.

Please note, the tutorials are currently in their initial draft stages. Some pages haven't been created yet, some are just started, and others are undergoing continual changes. In other words, this document is alive! If you see something that needs to be fixed, you can add your voice. Create an Issue and we'll follow up.

Getting Started

New to the CCK? Start here:

1. Intro to digital: content strategy in the digital publishing environment and a human rights framework
2. Intro to metadata: using structured text to talk with robots
3. Intro to Markdown: a familiar way to write structured text
4. Intro to Digital Workflow: how to submit content for digital publication

Beginner tutorials

1. Blogging for Human Rights
2. Microblogging and "Social Media"
3. Writing and sending messages by mass e-mail broadcast
4. News writing
5. References, resources, and reports
6. Projects
7. Biographies
8. Publicizing events
9. Job and volunteer opportunities

Advanced content tutorials

1. Collecting data
2. Working with data
3. GIS and mapping
4. Creating timelines

Best Practices

1. We want you to use our content! Here's how.
2. How we work: our development environment and process
3. A holistic approach to publishing: adaptive, progressive, sustainable
4. Adapting Amnesty International Canada's Content Construction Kit to your publishing environment