Upcoming Conferences
Upcoming Webinars
DITA for the Common Man
Date: September 9, 2010, 12:00pm EDT(GMT -4:00)
To register for this webinar click here.
Fee: $75
The DITA Content Collaboration project aims to create a walk-up-and-use, wiki-like DITA experience for literally anyone who needs to share their knowledge with others, with the intention of encouraging the widest possible deployment of basic DITA writing capability. Don will discuss the motivations for the project, demonstrate some common scenarios in both corporate and non-business settings, and describe how the project's goals fit into the spectrum of other DITA tools and collaboration methods currently available.
Speaker:
Don Day–Chair of OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) Technical Committee
Ugly DITA Webinar
Date: September 30, 2010, 11:00am EDT(GMT -4:00)
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Fee: $75 (Free for CIDM members and CMS 2010 conference attendees.)
If used properly, DITA is a powerful, comprehensive, and flexible standard that allows organizations to better use and reuse their structured content—and reduce costs in the process. But the comprehensiveness and flexibility of DITA can easily result in ugly DITA and a frustrated experience. In this presentation, Sheila and Marc share their recommendations from a DITA pilot project undertaken at STMicroelectronics. Sheila and Marc provide valuable insight in how to avoid and overcome problems resulting from the DITA content model, stumbling blocks in content reuse, unexpected print quality issues, adoption resistance, and implementation difficulties.
Speakers:
Sheila D'Annunzio–STMicroelectronics
Marc Speyer–Independent
Upcoming Workshops
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On-Demand Webinars
Never Waste a Good Crisis
Recorded Date: August 25, 2010
To listen to this recorded webinar click here.
Fee: $75 (Free for CIDM members)
Layoffs. Unplanned employee turnover. Hiring freezes. Missed deadlines. Looming workloads. Impossible schedules. As painful as crises are, it’s often easier to make needed changes in response to crises than at other times. Learn how one manager got approval to add personnel in the middle of a reduction in force.
Speakers:
Daphne Walmer–Medtronic, Inc.
DITA vs. Non-Technical Authors: Why and how?
Recorded Date: August 11, 2010
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Fee: $75 (Free for CIDM members and CMS 2010 conference attendees)
This session will show approaches to have non-technical authors directly write DITA content including improving discovery of available tags, preventing abuse of tags for styling, and promotion of inline tagging.
Speakers:
Laurens van den Oever–SDL
To view more On-Demand Webinars click here.
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Job Announcement
Comtech Services, an international consulting company, is currently seeking to hire a person to work with clients to implement information architecture, minimalism, topic-based documentation systems, and web-based delivery of documentation. Candidates must have good writing skills, be detail oriented, self-motivated, willing to work as part of a team, be comfortable speaking to a group, and enjoy working directly with clients. Familiarity with technical-communication management issues, XML, HTML, and DITA are a plus. Bachelor’s degree required. Some travel required. Must reside in the Denver, CO area and work on site at Company offices. Please send resume to the attention of Kristi Bullard, Comtech Services, Inc., 710 Kipling Street, Suite 400, Lakewood, CO 80215 or fax to 303-232-0659.
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Now On Sale: e-version of Introduction to DITA: A Guide to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture
An electronic user guide for the popular OASIS DITA standard. If you have been using DITA, or are just joining the DITA community, this book provides you with the information you need to accomplish your goals. The user guide not only presents the basic methodology of DITA and its benefits for creating your information set, but explains step-by-step how to author DITA XML topics, create maps for your deliverables, and work through the production processing tasks. The book includes a thorough explanation of the DITA model and the major elements used to create your topics using the task, concept, and reference information types.
Introduction to DITA: A User Guide to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture: Electronic Version
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