Earlier this year Ed Marsh of the techcomm-focused “Content Content Podcast” interviewed me as I rambled on about my quarter-century in Technical Communications. Ed is a great interviewer and this ended up being fun to do, which I hope comes across in the podcast. We talked about a wide range of topics, including my startRead More
Tag: DITA
Congility Releases Free Webinars on DITA and Related Topics
While looking for information on when and where the next Twelve DITA Implementations: Lessons Learnedconference will be (still no updates on that front as yet), I found that they have posted a series of free-to-download webinars on DITA, content management and related topics. It’s a solid set of subjects from some leading people in theRead More
Customer Feedback in Technical Docs Using DITA
Update November 10th 2011: The poor audio in the original version of the YouTube version of the presentation has been fixed, and all references to it below have been updated to point to the new link. While at the Congility conference earlier this year, I attended a great presentation (one of many at that conference)Read More
Bob Beims on Delivering Docs to Customers in New Formats
This video on YouTube was just pointed out to me by Bob Beims, showing him at some sort of trade show where he is talking about how Freescale is trying to reach out to their customers by giving them the information they need in whatever platform they need it in. Consider that DITA XMLRead More
CIDM Webinar: “DITA Metrics in Production: How, When, Where and Why (and How Much?)”
I am presenting an updated version of the presentation I gave at the Baltimore DITA Conference for the Center for Information-Development Management folks tomorrow. It is called “DITA Metrics in Production: How, When, Where and Why (and How Much?)” and focuses on how to gather DITA-based metrics and use them to focus on quality andRead More
JoAnn Hackos’ Keynote on DITA and Translation Management
Another day of seminars and workshops at the localization summit. There was a new service/product announcement and champaign corks were popped by it’s developers. There was also a good presentation on risk management for localization within the pharmaceutical domain. In the evening there was a light classical music concert, followed by a reception where IRead More
SDIG Presentation: The DITA-Enabled Language Service Provider
The next SDIG free Webinar presentation will be of interest to anyone who has their DITA-based content localized. The presentation on Wednesday (starting at 10am CST) will be presented by Donald A. DePalma, Ph.D., who is the Chief Strategy Officer and Founder of Common Sense Advisory, Inc. a firm dedicated helping both buyers and vendorsRead More
DITA Europe 2010 Conference Closing Talk
JoAnn Hackos gave the closing talk at the conference, and made the observation that DITA has not taken off in Europe as it has in North America. That was pretty much my impression as well, after talking to a number of people here. One tech writing manager I met had her ROI argument for gettingRead More
DITA for FrameMaker Resources
Though late to the party, Adobe finally got around to doing a full revamp of FrameMaker, bolting on DITA functionality starting with version 7.2, and then fully integrated by version 8 in 2007. Here are some resources for those looking to using FrameMaker with DITA: FrameMaker 8 Deep Dive: though it takes a while toRead More
“DITA Reuse with LEGOs” Video
An amusing presentation explaining the idea of content reuse in DITA with Soren Weimann showing how it is done using big lego blocks (which represent individual topics), paper outlines of lego blocks (maps), a bowl (to represent a CMS), and a camera (to illustrate output). Sound confusing? Hardly, and it’s a shame that there aren’t moreRead More