Upcoming Conferences


Content Management Strategies Conference 2010 April 19–21
Santa Clara, California
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Best Practices 2010 September 13-15
Hampton, Virginia
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DITA Europe 2009 Post Conference
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Upcoming Webinars


Content for Tomorrow: Social Media and the Dilemma for Content Teams

Date: February 25, 2010, 12pm Eastern

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This webinar is free for CIDM Members. Please send an email to info@infomanagementcenter.com to register for the webinar.

Social networking, social media, and other Web 2.0 technologies have changed the way that companies communicate to and exchange information with their customers. What experiments and big bets are content teams making to embrace these changes? Are we falling behind, leaping ahead, or just trying to keep stride with the complex possibilities we offer? This session provides ideas, guidance, and insights into how Microsoft and other web properties, user assistance, and information and publishing efforts are being designed to connect with customers in this new world.

Speakers:
Alex Blanton–Microsoft Corporation


XML Webinar Series—Session 4
Publishing XML to PDF and the Web Using the Same Style Sheet

Date: March 11, 2010, 11am Eastern

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In the 4th session of the XML Webinar Series, Hal Trent and Frank Miller of Comtech Services will look to the future of XML/DITA publishing by incorporating technologies like CSS 3 which allows for a single style sheet to deliver print and web documents.

Register for XML Webinars 1 & 2.
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Register for XML Webinars 1,2,3 & 4.

Speakers:
Hal Trent–Comtech Services, Inc.
Frank Miller—Comtech Services, Inc.



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On-Demand Webinars


How Effective Use of Metadata and the Resource Description Framework (RDF) Can Be an Answer to Your DITA Nightmares

Recorded: February 2, 2010

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During the presentation, we will see how the effective use of metadata along with existing standards such as the Resource Description Framework (RDF) can be an answer to those challenges. With metadata and RDF, those nasty nightmares will go away, indeed they may well be the answer to all of your DITA dreams!

Speakers:
Frank Shipley–Componize Software


Structured Publishing with an Open Source CMS

Recorded: December 16, 2009

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In this Webinar, Peter Dykstra reviews why to use a Content Management System for technical publishing, why to consider open source, and how to use the open source Daisy CMS to support a topic-based information architecture for html and pdf book publishing.

Speakers:
Peter Dykstra–MetaphorX LLC


Planning Collaborative Work so that Teams Remain Efficient

Recorded: October 22, 2009, 11:00am EDT/8:00am PDT

To listen to this recorded webinar for only $75 click here.

Is the refrain, "Who has time to plan?" familiar in your organization? Do authors maintain that working on their own is the only surefire way to be efficient? Do they claim that working in XML takes more time? Struggling with writers over project planning and coordinating activities is not a new problem. Nor is it unusual to hear protests about authoring tools. Documentation managers are all too familiar with authors skipping the planning process, owning complete documents, and detecting flaws in the tools. But single sourcing complexities only invigorate these struggles. From information modeling and metadata to figuring out how to map, share, and optimize content, single sourcing fundamentals—both planning and collaborating—can add overhead to projects. Despite apparent inefficiencies, effective planning and collaborating can optimize reuse and impact ROI. This session provides various approaches to effective planning and collaborating to ensure reuse efficiency.

Speakers:
Charlotte Robidoux–Hewlett-Packard Company
Bobbi Gibson–Hewlett-Packard Company

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Center for Information-Development Management

DITA 1.2 Language Specification

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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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