One of the final technical communications conferences in the fall is the biggest: tcworld which draws in over 4,000 attendees, mostly from Germany and across Europe. I came to the conference with some trepidation given that, last year, DITA experts and vendors attending the show got a largely frosty reception, with German CCMS vendors bonding togetherRead More
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Don Day and Michael Priestley on the Beginnings of DITA: Part 1
As a way to celebrate what was the 10th anniversary of the DITA standard in 2015, I did a series of interviews with people who were there at the very beginning. Two of these key people were (and are) Don Day and Michael Priestley. Formerly with IBM, Don Day is now a DITA and XMLRead More
What I Learned at DITA Europe 2014
DITA Europe 2014 was held November 18th – 19th in Munich, Germany. The conference was a great opportunity to connect with other DITA users to share our experiences, knowledge and developments in the world of DITA. Slow but steadily growing DITA usage in Europe I had the honour of co-presenting this year’s keynote alongside JoAnnRead More
An Interview with Noz Urbina on Congility 2014
Last week I had the opportunity to do a quick interview with Noz Urbina, head of Urbina Consulting and the chief organizer (along with the folks at Mekon) of the Congility conference and workshops happening shortly in Gatwick, U.K. later this June. We talked about what exactly “Congility” is and what to expect from thisRead More
Moving from One DITA CMS to Another: Lessons Learned from Migrating from a First-Generation to a Second-Generation DITA CMS
One of the most interesting presentations I saw at the Ixiasoft DITA CMS conference back in June was presented by a Documentation Team Lead at Research in Motion (RIM). While these days the beleaguered firm is better known in the news for its revenue woes (though it is good to see some wins as well),Read More
“DITA Today and Tomorrow” Presentation Now Available from YouTube
The Webinar presentation I did yesterday afternoon on behalf of Data Conversion Laboratory has now been posted to YouTube. You can now watch this anytime. Enjoy! For those who just want the slide deck, here’s a copy of the PDF, and here’s a link to the original Prezi that it was derived from. Will beRead More
“DITA Today and Tomorrow” – Keynote Presentation from the Ixiasoft DITA CMS Conference
Last Thursday I delivered a keynote presentation called “DITA Today and Tomorrow” at the Ixiasoft DITA CMS Conference. It went over well, despite some technical glitches involving a faulting projector cable at the beginning. 😉 I was asked by Ixiasoft’s CEO Éric Begeron to provide the presentation on this topic, which gave me a greatRead More
DITAWriter to Deliver Keynote at DITA CMS Conference
The folks at Ixiasoft have invited me to give the keynote presentation at their first-ever DITA CMS User Conference which is happening later this week in Montreal, Canada. The talk is called “DITA Today and Tomorrow” and will focus on the current state of the portion of the technical writing community that has embraced DITARead More
Countdown to the Content Management Strategies/DITA North America Conference
There’s just a few days to go before the big Content Management Strategies/DITA North America Conference in La Jolla, California. Am looking forward to presenting the keynote talk there, and to meet with other people in the industry and learn about the latest developments in DITA and technical documentation practice in general. I have learnedRead More
The Latest Trends in DITA XML Use in Tech Writing (Part 2)
In the previous article I looked briefly at the numbers from the latest Microsft’s Visio survey of technical writer tools, taking the raw data and showing where the DITA-OT appears in the list of the overall top 20 Technical Writer’s tools (#18, up from #20 in 2011) and where it appears in a listing ofRead More