Karen Farrar
@karenfarrar.bsky.social
Health professional & physiology PhD turned word, comms & content nerd. Owner 'Content In Practice' - editing, content strategy/design, consulting re: healthcare content. Thoughts about structure, function, systems - words, web, healthcare. Melb AU.
Proponents "believed that letters were the least reliable cues" to "figure out what a word is"... Wow.
November 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Proponents "believed that letters were the least reliable cues" to "figure out what a word is"... Wow.
Most don't share these thoughts b/c they're hard to articulate.
September 15, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Most don't share these thoughts b/c they're hard to articulate.
Also appreciate your content despite working on different things to you. I enjoy hearing how people apply systems thinking, critical thinking, research skills and cross-functional insights to solve problems where others don't necessarily recognise there is one.
September 15, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Also appreciate your content despite working on different things to you. I enjoy hearing how people apply systems thinking, critical thinking, research skills and cross-functional insights to solve problems where others don't necessarily recognise there is one.
Would be great to hear how that goes and how you capture your internal process & intuitive / experiential connections to show others.
May 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Would be great to hear how that goes and how you capture your internal process & intuitive / experiential connections to show others.
Same. Sometimes the spark happens spontaneously or is triggered by something completely unrelated. And sometimes there's a lot of moving pieces around to try to find the pattern or opening to the pathway.
April 29, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Same. Sometimes the spark happens spontaneously or is triggered by something completely unrelated. And sometimes there's a lot of moving pieces around to try to find the pattern or opening to the pathway.
"AI is not a silver bullet. A savvy leader...might pause and consider how AI is actually going to fit into their overall strategy"
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April 10, 2025 at 11:20 PM
"AI is not a silver bullet. A savvy leader...might pause and consider how AI is actually going to fit into their overall strategy"
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A lot of Covid hubs/pages just stopped being managed. Not updated but also not removed. Still so much info out there about Covid protocols that are now years old. Even for healthcare settings.
April 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
A lot of Covid hubs/pages just stopped being managed. Not updated but also not removed. Still so much info out there about Covid protocols that are now years old. Even for healthcare settings.
Covid hubs were maintained as long as it was seen as a crisis. Covid is still around but perceptions have changed. It will be interesting to see how long cost-of-living-crisis hubs last (how long until the situation is normalised).
April 4, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Covid hubs were maintained as long as it was seen as a crisis. Covid is still around but perceptions have changed. It will be interesting to see how long cost-of-living-crisis hubs last (how long until the situation is normalised).
We also got to learn/do diff tasks in physical contexts before having 1 device that conveniently does them all digitally. We can differentiate these mentally but it must be so much harder to develop mental models if you've never known them. And harder to use the device instead of it using you.
April 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
We also got to learn/do diff tasks in physical contexts before having 1 device that conveniently does them all digitally. We can differentiate these mentally but it must be so much harder to develop mental models if you've never known them. And harder to use the device instead of it using you.
Impact as a verb still gets me. And for some reason I can't cope with "went extinct". It's as if they somehow chose to go there.
April 3, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Impact as a verb still gets me. And for some reason I can't cope with "went extinct". It's as if they somehow chose to go there.
Yes to all of this.
March 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Yes to all of this.
"Redesigns are emotional, too."
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February 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
"Redesigns are emotional, too."
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I've found the gardening analogy very useful when describing the need for content maintenance. But deciding who the content gnome will be is often the stumbling block.
November 22, 2024 at 1:46 AM
I've found the gardening analogy very useful when describing the need for content maintenance. But deciding who the content gnome will be is often the stumbling block.
Thanks. Great data & breakdowns but only for AHPRA-registered professions. Still so much missing / invisible health workforce data for other allied health professions. Would be good to somehow capture that centrally too.
November 21, 2024 at 10:15 PM
Thanks. Great data & breakdowns but only for AHPRA-registered professions. Still so much missing / invisible health workforce data for other allied health professions. Would be good to somehow capture that centrally too.
Late reply & no resources sorry, but totally agree with you on this. It's so common to see sales/marketing content beyond the sale. Once I've purchased/signed up I don't need to be convinced, just be able to use the product + access support if needed.
November 20, 2024 at 11:01 PM
Late reply & no resources sorry, but totally agree with you on this. It's so common to see sales/marketing content beyond the sale. Once I've purchased/signed up I don't need to be convinced, just be able to use the product + access support if needed.
Looking fwd to your list. I'm not currently in a content-specific role but still trying to influence thinking, approaches & processes in content for health professionals.
November 20, 2024 at 4:01 AM
Looking fwd to your list. I'm not currently in a content-specific role but still trying to influence thinking, approaches & processes in content for health professionals.
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Great article and concept. "The emphasis shift[ed] from just diagnostics and treatment prescription to education and sharing a treatment plan and navigating patients through this." So powerful.
November 17, 2024 at 12:28 AM
Great article and concept. "The emphasis shift[ed] from just diagnostics and treatment prescription to education and sharing a treatment plan and navigating patients through this." So powerful.
Great article and concept. "The emphasis shift[ed] from just diagnostics and treatment prescription to education and sharing a treatment plan and navigating patients through this." So powerful.
November 17, 2024 at 12:28 AM
Great article and concept. "The emphasis shift[ed] from just diagnostics and treatment prescription to education and sharing a treatment plan and navigating patients through this." So powerful.
Would love to see this.
November 15, 2024 at 9:15 AM
Would love to see this.
I've raised poor onboarding experiences with orgs (some done thru 3rd parties). Their response was "yes it's bad isn't it but you only have to do it once".
November 15, 2024 at 9:14 AM
I've raised poor onboarding experiences with orgs (some done thru 3rd parties). Their response was "yes it's bad isn't it but you only have to do it once".