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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Observations from DITA North America 2015, Pt 1
[This blog post was originally published on the IXIASOFT website on May 28, 2015 as “Are DITA Implementations Getting Easier?“. It is reproduced here with permission]. The largest single DITA event in the world is Content Management Strategies/DITA North America (CMS/DITA NA), and this year’s conference in Chicago did not disappoint. While there are largerRead More
Which Tech Writing Tools Are the Most Used?
Analyzing the Results from the WritersUA 2014 User Assistance Tool Survey This past Saturday WritersUA came out with its 2014 User Assistance Tool Survey, based on a wide-ranging poll of those working in the technical writing field. If you look at the WritersUA page it simply displays the raw poll results without any analysis. ItRead 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 1.3 Troubleshooting Topic Type Feature in oXygen 15.2
Just over a week ago the people at Syncro Soft updated their oXygen XML Editor to version 15.2. What just caught my eye is the fact that there is already a DITA 1.3-specific feature added to the software, in anticipation of its release. Yup, DITA 1.3. Just when you think you’ve got your head aroundRead More
List of DITA-related Videos (Updated)
One of the great things about YouTube (other than numerous videos of cats) is that if you are looking to learn more about a subject—like DITA XML—there’s plenty of material available for you. George Bina at SyncRO Soft recently sent me a link to several DITA and oXygen-related videos posted online, and I realized thatRead More
DITA Takes Flight: Some Evidence of DITA Maturity
As mentioned in the previous article there is steady growth in the job market for technical writers with DITA experience. What’s interesting is that there are further signs that DITA usage within firms is maturing, indicating that DITA is now out of the “early adoption” phase. The last time I did a DITA jobs surveyRead More
Samalander Software Looking for Beta Testers
While starting the process of updating my listing of DITA Tools, I ran across the fact that Samalander is seeking beta testers for a wide-range of largely DITA-related products. Since the tools listing is one of the more popular pages on this site, there are clearly people out there who would be interested in hearingRead More
List of DITA-related Videos
The following is a (hopefully) comprehensive list of all DITA XML-related videos being hosted on YouTube and Vimeo. As you can see there’s plenty of videos on all sorts of DITA-related topics out there, ranging from how to use DITA in various editors (including FrameMaker, oXygen and XMetaL), tutorials on DITA, a few DITA-based CMSesRead More
Colin Maudry on DITA Use at NXP Semiconductor
When asking around the contacts I have in the semiconductor industry about DITA, one other person willing to go on the record was Colin Maudry from NXP. He works for NXP out of its Eindhoven office in The Netherlands, and is a DITA Specialist overseeing the migration of their documentation team over to DITA XML.Read More