Web Content Strategist
For the past 6 or 7 years, I have been working with our company's websites. Sometimes that means designing from scratch. Sometimes we outsource the design and/or development and I manage the project. I support usesrs --internal and clients-- on various content managment tools. And a bunch of other stuff. And from the beginning, I've struggled with a title for this position.
Some of our folks introduce me as "web guru." Hate that. Implies a level of mystical knowledge I will never posses. Same for "webmaster." I'm not even the master of my domain.
I've used Online Editor and that's not bad. Funky Web Monkey and Pile-Drivin' Digital Daddy are fun but I'm really not funky nor a driver of pile. I fall back on "Web Guy" (Web Boy wasn't working) from time to time.
Today, I spotted this title: Web Content Strategist. "Strategist" seems a bit grand but I do think a lot about what we're doing and where we're going with our growing number of websites. So, maybe.
Oh dear, don't give in. Keep your title of "web guy" and shun the iron grip of corporate america's newspeak.
Posted by: Matthew Sievert | 07/31/2006 at 10:47 PM
Web Dude. Definitely Web Dude.
Posted by: bass | 08/01/2006 at 10:46 AM
How about "Web Guy who has an extremely hot niece"?
Posted by: Clay Broughton | 08/01/2006 at 03:54 PM
how about e-media specialist? That's what I am.
Posted by: jen | 07/11/2007 at 10:27 PM