This is part two of a series of articles examining the issues DITA users are talking about at the DITA Listening Sessions being held by the OASIS DITA Adoption Committee. Just few weeks ago I attended (virtually) two additional DITA Listening Sessions that occurred in the Seattle area. Each session is unique, in that itRead More
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
[This blog post was originally published on the IXIASOFT website on November 19, 2015. It is reproduced here with permission] 1. tcworld is the largest technical communications conference in the world Actually I knew this fact when heading over to Stuttgart, Germany, but it really only hit home when I first saw the conference hall.Read More
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
Time to catch up on some DITA-related news items, all having to do with upcoming DITA-related webinars: Content Management Trends: Understanding DITA Date: August 14th at 1PM-2PM EDT Speakers: Dan Taylor, Paul Wlodarczyk and Kris Eberlein More companies are utilizing DITA standards to represent reusable content components. A component content model enables companies to efficientlyRead More
This presentation was one of the highlights of the conference for me, as most of the people responsible for driving the new DITA 1.2 specification were there to talk about what they had come up with. Starting off the panel in the same way that he would normally be speaking with this group Don DayRead More
