A few years ago I was at the DITA North America conference just when the idea of Lightweight DITA was being floated for the first time at a conference. One of the speakers I met for the first time was Professor Carlos Evia, Ph.D., who co-presented with Michael Priestley and Jenifer Schlotfeldt from IBM onRead More
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Agile Documentation Management at Best Practices 2016
This year’s Best Practices conference was held at in Santa Fe, New Mexico at the La Fonda Hotel, a grand old Pueblo-style hotel located in the heart of old Santa Fe. Anyone arriving to the conference early was treated to an open air market in the main square selling lots of turquoise jewelry, some veryRead More
Highlights from DITA North America 2016
[This article was original published in two parts on the IXIASOFT website back in April 2016. Here’s Part 1 and Part 2. This version on DITAWriter adds some minor updates and brings the two pieces together as a single article. I have also back-dated this blog closer to the time of the conference, purely forRead More
Observations from DITA North America 2015, Pt 2
[This blog post was originally published on the IXIASOFT website on June 11, 2015 as “What Can We Expect with DITA 1.3?“. It is reproduced here with permission]. The top-of-mind question for nearly everybody at this year’s CMS/DITA North America conference was: “What can we expect with DITA 1.3?” 2015 marks the 10th anniversary ofRead 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
DITAWriter Speaking at DITA Europe 2014
I have the honour of being the co-keynote speaker along with JoAnn Hackos at the DITA Europe 2014 conference happening in Munich, Germany on November 18-19. We’ll be speaking about The Challenges of DITA Adoption in Europe. I plan on presenting my latest survey on the state of DITA adoption—those who attended the IXIASOFT UserRead 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
DITA Rockstar Summer Camp Webinar Series
Summer is here and what better time to learn more about DITA XML? 😉 Okay, maybe that’s not for everyone, but this series of webinars hosted by easyDITA look to be an interesting way to while away a lunchtime. Unfortunately I came into this information a bit late (busy with work!), but there are aRead More
Upcoming Webinar by JoAnn Hackos on Adopting DITA to Reduce Costs and Increase Productivity
Update: Just got word that the date for this has been changed from Thursday November 8th to Monday November 19, 2012. Same time though. In the meantime the 2012 CIDM survey is still being run, and you access it here. Whenever JoAnn Hackos speaks, I listen. So I’ll be one of those planning on attendingRead More
Webinar Presentation: Getting Change to Happen-Enterprise Communication
Somehow I missed the first part of this three-part free webinar series, but JoAnn Hackos is presenting tomorrow (September 20th @ 1pm EDT) on Enterprise Communication. The Webinar series is being presented by the folks at Data Conversion Laboratory (the same people who hosted my own Webinar not so long ago) and JoAnn is aRead More