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 Managing, Reusing, and Repurposing eLearning Content: Best Practices
Online Forum
April 19-20, 2012
In this two-day, 10-session online conference, featuring a presentation from JoAnn Hackos and Dawn Stevens on Collaboration Strategies for Training and Tech Pubs, you’ll learn about best practices for content management, and for determining if content reuse and repurposing is right for you.
Upcoming Webinars
Implementing a publishing solution for the DITA 1.2 Learning and Training Specialization
January 26, 2012, 11am EST
In this webinar, Senior Consultant Hal Trent of Comtech Services and Applications Engineer Bill Gamboa of Vasont Systems discuss how to publish DITA 1.2 Learning and Training content to a Learning Management System. Hal and Bill explain how the DITA 1.2 learning and training specialization content is mapped to SCORM-compliant output. Learn how an organization can leverage their current learning and training content with DITA-created learning and training content.
Presented by Hal Trent, Comtech Services and Bill Gamboa, Vasont Systems
Crossing the Chasm with DITA Part 2: Now Go
February 23, 2012, 1pm EST
Follow the story of organizations that have successfully moved through the early phases to Pilot Project that prove their business case. Understand the requirements for component content management systems and the challenges of legacy conversion. Know how organizations have proved their return on investment.
Presented by Comtech Services and Data Conversion Laboratory
Crossing the Chasm with DITA Part 3: Next Grow
March 22, 2012, 1pm EDT
Learn what the innovators and early adopters have done to change the focus to customer delivery and enterprise adoption. Follow the course of key companies that are using the XML DITA standard to take DITA across the chasm to optimized delivery of information using social media and new technology to deliver information at the point of need. Follow enterprise dissemination the shows the original skeptics that everyone benefits.
Presented by Comtech Services and Data Conversion Laboratory
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Crossing the Chasm with DITA Part 1: Get Ready ... Get Set
Recorded: January 19, 2012
In this webinar, we trace the progress of many organizations from the early phases of Exploration, Preparation, and Education through genuine progress with Pilot projects and implementing a Component Content Management System to keep everything in line, through the Conversion of legacy content to a new way of structuring and managing information for the Enterprise.
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Presented by Comtech Services and Data Conversion Laboratory
DITA Emerging Trends and Best Practices: Practical Solutions for 2012 and Beyond
Recorded: December 15, 2011
JoAnn Hackos from Comtech Services joins us to take a look at the top trends that are driving DITA adoption in technical publications, as well as expansion into departments such as Marketing and Engineering. We’ll discuss what lies ahead for DITA in 2012 and provide some practical solutions that you can implement in your organization.
Speaker: JoAnn Hackos, Comtech Services, Inc.
DITA 1.2 Learning and Training: Building reusable learning objects
Recorded: September 22, 2011
Fee: $75.00
Join Dawn Stevens, Comtech Services Senior Consultant, as she introduces the Learning and Training specialization of OASIS DITA 1.2.
Speaker: Dawn Stevens, Comtech Services, Inc.
Handling Warnings in User-Friendly Documentation
Recorded: September 8, 2011
Fee: $75.00 (Free for CIDM Department Members)
Join Marie-Louise Flacke in this CIDM webinar to understand the problems associated with the current practices in writing warnings, cautions, and other safety hazard statements in customer documentation. Writers, and their legal advisors, tend to add dozens of safety messages and heavily formatted risk warnings in procedures.
Speaker: Marie-Louise Flacke, CI3M
DITA and XLIFF: The perfect marriage gets stronger
Recorded: August 25
Fee: $75.00 (Free for CIDM Department Members)
The addition of DITA into the mainstream for documentation is causing exciting advances in the way information is authored, organized, accessed, shared, and published. For the first time, a system for topic-based publishing exists that is supported by tools, best practices, and user communities. One of the exciting ROI factors people consider is the savings in translation. But often, that savings is difficult to find due to the paradox. The paradox is that DITA is very strong because it lets authors create, manage, reuse, and publish 10s, 100s, 1000s of topics. However managing the translation of 10s, 100s, 1000s of topics adds unexpected overhead to the translators. Enter XLIFF. XLIFF is also an OASIS open standard. It is the open standard for Localization and Translation interchange. Attend this presentation and demonstration to see how XLIFF solves the paradox.
Speakers: JoAnn Hackos, Comtech Services, Inc., Bryan Schnabel, Tektronix, Inc. & Rodolfo M. Raya, Maxprograms
DITA 1.2 Constraint Mechanism: Improving your DITA Authoring experience
Recorded: August 17
Length: 1.5 hours; 60 min presentation time and 30 min Q&A time.
Fee: $75.00
In this next session in the DITA 1.2 webinar series, Hal Trent of Comtech Services will discuss how the Constraints Mechanism has been implemented in the DITA 1.2 specification and how it can be leveraged to add greater authoring controls without specializing the DITA DTDs.
Speakers: Hal Trent, Comtech Services, Inc.
Are You Ready for the New Information Revolution? New Frontiers for Multilingual Web Analytics, SEO and Community Sentiment Analysis
Recorded: July 21, 2011
Fee: $75 (Free for CIDM members)
This talk will present some new ideas which are going to revolutionize information development in the 21st Century. Companies are moving quickly away from traditional documentation strategies towards an approach based on three main principles: customer focus, customer engagement and customer involvement.
Speakers:
Andrew Bredenkamp & Jennifer Beaupre, acrolinx
Customized DITA Documents Delivered Using SharePoint
Recorded: June 29, 2011
Fee: $75
In this webinar, Hal Trent of Comtech Services will demonstrate how you can leverage your company’s SharePoint CMS to deliver content, web pages, and customized PDFs from your DITA content without having to change your source content or compromise the efforts you have already put into your document’s semantic structure, reuse strategy, or metadata organization.
Speaker:
Hal Trent, Comtech Services, Inc.
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