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
Easily the most visited page on this website is the DITA CMSes page, listing all of the DITA-capable CMSes I have been able to track down. It typically gets several hundred visits per month—closely followed by the list of DITA Optimized Editors and the DITA-related Software Tools pages—telling me that there’s a strong need outRead More
Update February 7 2013: A recording of all of the webinars in this series are now available: Session 1: Users Become Learners Webinar recording Slidedeck only Session 2: Empowering User/Learners Through Cognitive Development Webinar recording Slidedeck only Session 3: Integrated Learning: Building Customer Loyalty Webinar recording Slidedeck only If you get an error message whenRead More
Earlier today I delivered a presentation called “The Evolution of Information Architecture” at the Colloquium on Information Architecture being hosted by the École normale supérieure in Lyon, France. The presentation ran for just under an hour, followed by a half hour of good questions, primarily from the students who are taking the Master’s program inRead More
While browsing through the XML and DITA-related discussions on LinkedIn, I ran across a good post by Joe Gollner about the “why” argument about doing things in XML (as opposed to some other, proprietary format). He also dug up what I think is an exceptional presentation he did called “The Reason and the Passion ofRead More
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
While it doesn’t get as much publicity as multimedia-based sites like YouTube, I often find interesting presentation on a variety of subject (like Information Architecture, Technical Writing, Localization, and of course DITA) from SlideShare.net. The following is a good summary of the basics of DITA by Selvakumar T.S. from Cadence. At 60 pages it beliesRead More
