Here is my take on what a Master Content Strategist does, in comparison with the article's division of front-end/back-end person:
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Front-end content strategist | 
Back-end content strategist | 
Master Content Strategist – My perspective | 
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·   Who’s our target audience? 
·   Why (for real) are we creating
  content for those people? 
·   What content do they need most? 
·   How well do we meet those needs
  today? 
·   How can we meet those needs better
  tomorrow – while also serving the goals of the business? 
·   How can we better coordinate the
  efforts of all our content creators? | 
·   How can we organize content so
  that our authors can easily store and retrieve it, and prepare it for
  automated selection and delivery in the relevant channels? 
·   How do we structure the content so
  that modules are consistent and can be easily assembled (mixed and matched)
  on-demand to meet customer needs? 
·   How do we make sure that we aren’t
  creating, recreating, and recreating content over and over for each channel? 
·   How do we scale our processes so
  we can do more with the same resources? 
·   How do we take advantage of the
  wealth of content we have and surface it for our customers in a way that is
  fresh and valuable? 
·   How do we future-proof our content
  to take advantage of the next big thing? | 
·   Develops strategy and objectives
  based on business objectives 
·   Defines audience per objective (if
  necessary) 
·   Defines content per sales cycle
  stage 
·   Continually assesses and evaluates
  content and its use 
·   Develops processes and workflows
  to support content development 
·   Develops taxonomies and structures
  for scalability and accessibility 
·   Understands all channels and
  appropriate use of content 
·   Repurposes content for various
  sources 
·   Establishes evergreen content as
  well as dynamic content 
·   Manages an editorial calendar 
·   Understands writing for the web –
  inclusive of SEO, tagging and social 
·  
  Is
  an editor and a writer | 
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Tasks | ||
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·  
  Define
  customer personas. 
·  
  Define
  customer journeys. 
·  
  Analyze and
  map customer needs to the business strategy. 
·  
  Determine
  what topics to address when, including content marketing offerings, to
  support the customer at multiple points in the customer journey. 
·  
  Choose the
  best content types (text, visuals, video). 
·  
  Develop SEO guidelines to ensure that people searching
  online can find the content. 
·  
  Develop style
  guidelines (on how to write for the audience). | 
·  
  Identify how
  content varies based on customer needs and where each need arises in the
  customer journey. 
·  
  Identify how
  content can be modularized so that it can be automatically reused (mixed and
  matched) to meet customer needs. 
·  
  Develop
  format-free structured content models so that content can be written in a
  consistent way and automatically published to any channel (mobile, web,
  print). 
·  
  Define the
  structure of the CMS repository so that it supports authoring and content
  retrieval. 
·  
  Develop metadata to tag all content modules for dynamic
  content retrieval. 
·  
  Develop
  business rules to identify how content should be assembled automatically upon
  customer request. 
·  
  Define
  structured-writing guidelines (on how to write for each content model). | 
·Develops personas 
·Maps customer journeys 
·Maps the sales cycle, the customer journey and content,
  including content type and format per customer need and preference 
·Develops styleguide for tone and brand per channel and
  incorporates robust SEO strategy 
·Defines structure within technology solutions including
  CMS so where it is modular it can be incorporated in various ways, with
  tagging utilized to showcase content in various modular. | 
 
 
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