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Content Management: Strategies for Single Sourcing Conference
presented by CIDM on April 28-29, 2003 with a post-conference workshop on April 30, 2003 in
Arlington, VA.
For more information, visit
www.cm-strategies.com
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Upcoming Workshops
The CIDM sponsors the following workshops between January and July 2003.
Sign up now:
User and Task
Analysis for Information Design
Bill Hackos, PhD,
January 27-28, 2003, Austin, TX
XML for Writers
Tina Hedlund,
January 28-29, 2003, Dallas, TX
February 27-28, 2003, Jacksonville, FL
Structured
Writing for Single Sourcing
JoAnn Hackos, PhD,
January 28-29, 2003, San Diego, CA
April 8-9, 2003, Indianapolis, IN
Developing Online
Information for Help and Web-Based Delivery
JoAnn Hackos, PhD,
February 3-4, 2003, Longmont, CO
April 2-3, 2003, Portland, OR
Developing
a Strategy for Minimalism: Creating Manuals People Will Use
JoAnn Hackos, PhD,
March 25-26, 2003, St. Paul, MN
May 13-14, 2003, Lexington, KY
Managing
Your Documentation Projects
JoAnn Hackos, PhD
May 6-7, 2003, Boston, MA
Developing a
Content-Management Strategy
JoAnn Hackos, PhD
July 15-16, 2003, Rochester, NY
For more information on these and other workshops,
visit the Seminars in Usable Design Web site at
www.comtech-serv.com/workshops/index.shtml
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Oblivious Organizations and Content Management: Not Yet Ready for Prime Time
JoAnn Hackos, PhD
CIDM Director
www.infomanagementcenter.com
Gert Kindergarten, marketing director at Hyperactive
Software, has just returned from the KMWorld conference. He
attended two sessions espousing the advantages of moving
documents into a content-management system and using XML
markup to enable reuse and repurposing. He announces to
his staff that the company needs to "get into" content
management right away for all its marketing and customer
documents, especially the product manuals. His senior writer
suggests calling in a consulting team to help.
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the full article
More articles
Terminology, Definitions, Usage, and Jargon
ROIs—Fact or Fiction?
PNG Update
Are You and Your People in the Right Job?
Content Management Strategies for Single Sourcing
Conference: April 28-29, 2003
Post-Conference Workshop: April 30, 2003
Mark your calendars! The Content-Management Strategies 2003
conference is April 28-29, 2003 in Arlington, Virginia.
If you register for the conference by February 14, the cost is only $895 USD!
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JoAnn Hackos and the Center for Information-Development
Management invite you to join us in Arlington, Virginia for
the definitive conference and workshop on content management
and single sourcing.
Our speakers include industry expert consultants, tool
developers, and people working on real content-management
and single-sourcing projects. You'll learn about providing
usable information, the information model, planning for
dynamic delivery and personalization, implementing industry
standards, collaborative authoring for reuse, and ROI
measurements, in addition to case studies from companies who
have successfully implemented content management or single
sourcing.
Learn industry best practices and the tools you'll need to
successfully implement content management or single sourcing
in your organization!
Successful content management results in reduced cost and
amazing ROIs. Learn how you can realize both for your company!
Take advantage of the opportunity to
- meet and network with your peers
- browse through our speaker-recommended books
- check out exhibits by the most exciting content-management tool developers
- discuss your needs with tool developers and industry experts
How to Plan and Implement a Single-Source Project
Learn tips and techniques for implementing your own
single-source project. Industry recognized expert and
consultant Dr. JoAnn Hackos will guide you through the
necessary phases for single sourcing and content management.
This workshop outlines the steps to take in implementing
your own single-source solution.
Registration Prices
Valentine's Special
If you register for the conference by February 14,
the cost is only $895 USD!
After Feburary 14
| Conference Registration |
$1195 USD |
| Conference and Workshop Registration |
$1495 USD |
Multiple Conference Registrations
(same company) |
$1095 USD each |
Multiple Conference and Workshop Registrations
(same company) |
$1395 USD each |
| CIDM Member Conference Registration |
$995 USD |
| CIDM Member Conference and Workshop Registration |
$1295 USD |
| Workshop Only Registration |
$500 USD |
To register for the conference and workshop, visit
www.cm-strategies.com
Terminology, Definitions, Usage, and Jargon
Bill Hackos, PhD
Vice President, Comtech Services, Inc.
www.comtech-serv.com
During my recent consulting visits, I've found that people
agonize over the definitions of terms. In my opinion,
agonizing over definitions is a huge waste of time.
Contributing to the confusion, many of us don't properly
distinguish among key terms (a definition problem itself).
Let's review what we mean by terminology, definitions,
usage, and jargon. It's important that we understand when
each of these concepts is appropriate. Such an understanding
could save a lot of time and confusion.
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the full article
ROIs—Fact or Fiction?
Ed Ness, the editor-in-chief of Integrated Solutions
magazine, brings up a valuable point about Return on
Investment (ROI). Could the case be, as he suggests, that
sometimes the best justification for a project is based on
intuition and common sense? Other than the trusted metric of
comparing current costs against anticipated savings, in some
cases ROI is hard to project. Ness's examples revolve around
costly and error-prone manual processes that in the end
might be able to conger up some type of ROI. But what ends
up being obvious, even without an elaborate ROI, is that the
project needs to be done, and now. Typically, the projects
that are hard to calculate require more attention. Ness
says, "This is not a call to strike ROI from your
thinking... but, in some cases, ROI needs to be put in a
different context. It might not always be clean. That
doesn't mean you won't realize an ROI."
Your Metrics Are Misleading
Ed Ness
Integrated Solutions
December 2002
www.integratedsolutionsmag.com/Articles/2002_12/021208.shtml
PNG Update
Robert N. Phillips
CEO, Lasotell Pty Ltd.
www.lasotell.com.au
In the October
CIDM e-newsletter, I reported on the benefits of using the PNG format for
graphics in most situations. Since then, however, I have
found that Internet Explorer 5.5 does not always properly
display graphics in PNG format. So we have had to revert to
GIF or JPEG format for graphics on our Web pages.
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the full article
Are You and Your People in the Right Job?
Vesa Purho
Development Manager, Nokia
Year's end is a good time to evaluate whether you are
actually in a job that suits your skills and talents, and if
not, to determine what you or your manager can do about it.
Recently, I attended a webcast seminar that was part of the
2002
Linkage Excellence in Management & Leadership series.
In that webcast, Marcus Buckingham from Gallup discussed
discovering your strengths; he raised some very interesting
ideas.
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the full article
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